Latest on Allowed Sites Feature
I blogged about a new AdSense Sites feature yesterday, but after i posted, they yenaked the new feature off of the control panel. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but now it seems like they were probably having problems with it, and decided to roll the new feature back. They will be pushing the new feature out as soon as they have things fixed again. Here is what AdSenseAdvisor (the official AdSense spokesperson on forums) had to say about it:
Hi everyone,
Sorry for the delayed update – I’ve been trying to find out as much as I could about this situation in order to make sure I passed along accurate information to all of you.
We’re very happy you’re all so excited about the new Allowed Sites feature. Unfortunately, we had to temporarily roll back its release, but expect to see it in your accounts again soon. We hope that it helps alleviate many of the concerns publishers have had about code theft and click sabotage.
In the meantime, our engineers have confirmed that we deactivated any settings you made yesterday, so your ads will continue to monetize as normal on all sites.
Again, we’re sorry for the inconvenience and confusion, and appreciate your patience.
-ASA
I’ll be sure to update things as more information becomes available.
Here is another update from AdSenseAdvisor
ann, if you (or anyone else) are seeing strange AdSense performance that seems to correlate with this Allowed Sites release and withdrawl, you’re welcome to PM me your pub ID or account login and a description of the behavior, and I’ll be more than happy to escalate it to our engineers for investigation.
We want to make sure this temporary release didn’t leave any weird loose ends…
-ASA
