Using Allowed Sites in Adsense: Pros and Cons

Continued from How to implement Allowed Sites in Adsense?

This is the third part of a 3-part long series on preventing getting banned from Adsense even without knowing about it. In case you haven’t read the previous parts, you can read it at:

Part I- How to get banned without even knowing about it?
Part II- How to implement Allowed Sites in Adsense?

Pros
You are effectively saved from your competition using your ads in unlawful ways for getting you down

Cons
You are not paid for clicks that originate from your ads shown on other sites that what you specify. If you forget to specify one of your old sites that you don’t actively maintain, go gotta lose money!
A missed spelled domain name can take away all your money. So be careful while doing this.
When a user opens your site from Google cache and then clicks on your ads, you are not paid!

Summary
Here is the summary of the three part long series on Allowed Sites in Adsense.

• Allowed Sites is a feature adsense to tell Google about the sites on which your adsense ads are displayed.
• Ads are displayed on other sites (not specified in Allowed Sites); you are not paid for the clicks.
• Try alternate ways depending on the type of your visitors.
• Keeping vigil and an open eye on your reports is the best way to keep the villain at bay.
• When you find something abnormal, being fast in notifying Google can go a long way in helping you.