Important updates to site management

20 November 2018

We recently announced that we're making some changes to the way that you monetise new sites with AdSense. From November, we'll start automatically migrating accounts to the new site management experience. We'll be rolling out these changes in stages, so you might not see them in your account yet.

What's changing

• New Sites page
  We're renaming the My sites page to Sites and are moving it further up the menu to make it easier to find. Any existing sites that you're monetising should automatically appear in the sites list on your new Sites page when your account is migrated. If you notice a site hasn't been migrated, you can easily add it to your sites list.
• Monetising new sites
  To show ads on a new site, you now have to add the site to your AdSense account. Each new site will go through a verification process which checks that you own the domain or have the ability to modify its content. The process also reviews your site for compliance with the AdSense Programme policies. After the checks are completed, your site will be marked as 'Ready' and you can start showing ads. Learn how to check the status of a site in your sites list.
• Suggested sites
  If we detect your ad code on a new site that's not yet in your sites list, we'll ask you whether it's yours. If the site does belong to you, you can click Yes and we'll add it to your sites list. Learn how to add a new site that we've detected.
• Simpler site authorisation
  If you previously used the site authorisation feature, this is now turned on by default. This means that the sites that listed on your new Sites page are the only sites that are permitted to use your ad code. If a site displaying your ad code isn't on your list of sites, then no ads will show on that site. Learn more about managing your sites in AdSense.