Webmasters go crazy over having their publisher ID so public and easily accessable for anyone to use. The AdSense team is finally putting a foot down and starting to give publishers some leverage to fight this. As I’ve seen time and time again on DigitalPoint, people will often come in screaming “ahhh my account was deleted!!!” and have no idea why. Maybe the AdSense team saw their pubID on a site that they didn’t own, but Google didn’t know any better. This move will help clean up the publisher network a lot and make it a lot better for everyone to use. In the end, it will save advertisers money too so not just anyone can use their pubID.
Here is the new setting you will be seeing soon.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:04 am
Finally, we can protect a very private bit of information that is our ID.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
It won’t let us make it private, yet, but it will allow us to set it so people can’t get other people banned from the program.
I haven’t seen it show up on my account yet, still waiting.