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Most Webmasters and Google AdSense publishers know that the AdSense code you place on your site includes your unique AdSense publisher ID. So if you ever wanted to track down all the places and sites that AdSense ID is used on the web, technically you can just search for the unique ID on various web sites.
Well, Blekko has made it easier.
If you type in any site, such as this or even [TechCrunch] into Blekko, you will see a link for "adsense" under the title of the page. Clicking on that will take you to a search for [/adsense=6181816114362650] which is the AdSense ID used on TechCrunch. It then lists out all the sites on the web using that ID.
Now, keep in mind, a couple things:
(1) Scrapers will often copy your AdSense code and AdSense ID and include it on their sites.
(2) Your competitors may have additional AdSense accounts, all with unique IDs.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Comments:
Joshua Dorkin
12/30/2010 04:19 pm
This is a great way to do a little competitive intelligence . . . thanks for the tip!
RyanMJones
12/30/2010 07:13 pm
FYI, it also works with Google Analytics and other metrics suites. You've got to dig through the code and remove parts of it. OpenX ad server works too. So do some other popular widgets. Using those techniques one can find several "interesting" sites run by many mainstream SEO people or all of the spam pages that Mahalo has created. Sites like this one ( howtocheckyourtaxrefundstatusonline.com ) where they created tons of content that just links to Mahalo.
Chavi
01/03/2011 08:47 pm
Not all sites have the adsense tab although they definitely use adsense. I checked a client's competitors and they didn't have that option. Why's that?
Michael Martinez
01/04/2011 05:36 pm
The data is not very accurate in some categories (such as duplicate content) but seems to be pretty reasonable in other categories. People should keep in mind that Blekko is NOT a reliable source of information for what Google or Bing know about a site OR for how Google or Bing evaluate a site.
Adam
04/08/2011 10:51 am
is blekko free service ?
TourRajasthan
12/21/2011 01:50 pm
Hope this information will always be used for healthy and clean intentions and not doing anything wrong to those who are earning money doing extraneous labor and efforts.
Basil
01/09/2012 08:11 pm
You can also use Reverse Get to search by AdSense / Analytics ID: http://reverseget.com/
Lyndsy Simon
01/30/2012 07:36 pm
This no longer appears to work.
Genry
08/20/2012 06:42 pm
Much easier to use: sameid.net Just enter domain name and see all sites with the same IDs
Abhas
03/23/2013 04:21 pm
I don't think the method works now... any suggestion...
multiverso
05/07/2013 08:44 am
Thanks for the information, unfortunately as others point out in previous comments the blekko method does not work anymore.