Will the Retirement of Google AdSense for Hosted Domains Affect Your Website?
Many publishers using Google AdSense for their hosted domains have received a couple emails over the past couple weeks stating that “Google will be retiring AdSense for hosted domains“.
There has been a lot of confusion over these emails because many publishers who use AdSense have received the emails even if the changes do not apply to them.
I received the first email on February 22nd and it was entitled, “Retiring AdSense for Domains in your account“.
The second email was received today, March 1st and was entitled, “Clarification about the upcoming retirement of AdSense for Domains in your account“.
Apparently Google realized that there was some confusion over the first email so they attempted to correct themselves but, instead, ended up confusing publishers even more!
So, here is the scoop. These AdSense changes apply only to publishers who have “parked” or “inactive” domains. Parked domains are websites that have no content. They just feature a landing page with Google AdSense links on it in hope that users will click through to another website.
An example of a parked domain using Google AdSense for Hosted Domains is My.net.
Unfortunately, in the Google AdSense help forums, it is stated that if publishers access their AdSense account and go to the “My ads” tab, then the “Domains” and “Hosted Domains” section, they will see the domains that will be affected by these AdSense changes.
That statement is not correct!
I emailed AdSense today telling them that I have two domains listed under “Hosted Domains” but they are active domains that have new content published on them almost daily.
The AdSense Team quickly responded saying that even though I have domains listed in that section, I am using AdSense for Content on those domains and they will not be affected by the upcoming changes.
So, in short, even if you have domains listed in the “Hosted Domains” section of AdSense but they are “Active” and not just “Parked“, then they will not be affected by the upcoming changes.
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments section below!
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Heyi also recived mail but after appeal Clarification about the upcoming retirement of AdSense for Domains in your account mail , my account is disabled what i do knw any information about that ?
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Clarification about the upcoming retirement of AdSense for Domains in your account
Hi,
Last week, we sent you an email about the upcoming retirement of Hosted domains in AdSense. In response to some questions we’ve received, we’d like to clarify how this change will affect your AdSense account:
Our records show that you have 0 active Hosted domains. To see these domains, log into your AdSense account and navigate to the “My Ads” tab, then click on “Hosted domains” under “Domains”. The domains listed as “active” will become inactive on April 18. Follow the steps in our Migration Guide to continue earning income on these domains.
If you don’t have any active domains at this moment, you don’t need to take any action.
In this list, you should see that you also have 2 Hosted domains that are not active at the moment. These domains will cease to be available in your AdSense account on June 27.
All domains with content which are monetized through any of our other AdSense products such as AdSense for Content or AdSense for Search will not be affected by this change.
For more information about the retirement of Hosted domains in AdSense, please visit our Help Center. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team