Adsense Spy

Want to know if the webmaster of a site is managing a few others? Then you can spy what he's doing by tracking his Adsense ID.

Example with the site EcoGeek.org:

- With ServerSiders.com: Domains using the same Adsense account as ecogeek.org
http://serversiders.com/ecogeek.org

- With DomainCrawler.com: in the story of ecogeek: "The Analytics/Ad-codes pub-0578044100560991 and UA-385778 is also present on the domain, which it shares with 10 websites."
http://www.domaincrawler.com/domains/view/ecogeek.org

- Ownerspy http://www.ownerspy.com/

- AdsSpy.com http://adsspy.com/search.php?q=ecogeek.org

- Google http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=pub-0578044100560991&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Note 1: Domains hosted on the same IP-address can also give clues, but you have to filter the results if it's a shared hosting. Can do a reverse ip search with Bing:

- MSN Bing Reverse IP Search

Note 2: Quantcast, Alexa Google analytics and ad networks id other than adsense's can also provide with clues, don't ignore those tidbits of information!

Do you have other tricks to stalk and track a webmaster?
:)

Adsense and HSBC Hong Kong

To register your HSBC bank account for Electronic Transfer fund (ETF) with Adsense:

Adsense requires 3 things: bank code, branch and account number.

- BANK CODE
HSBC Hong Kong bank code is 004:
Sources: HSBC site: bank code and skype forum

- BRANCH CODE and ACCOUNT NUMBER
From your online banking, you probably have a bank account number number similar to xxx-cccccc-bbb
The first 3 figures (xxx) are actually your branch code, and ccccccbbb is the bank account number you'll give to adsense (in my case bbb = 838, that's HSBC's own sorting code)
Sources: HSBC site: designated branch codes and geoexpat site about HSBC HK and paypal


Adsense will send a very small amount to verify the bank account. From the day I registered my account with Adsense it took 1 week for the transfer to show up in my online banking statement.