I have several websites that are ranking really well & have high CPC. I've never had my adsense on these, since I've moved to larger & high quality sites for adsense, so I don't really wanna add these websites to my account. These websites however are hosted on the same server as my other websites & domains are registered with the same company.
My thought is transferring these domains and changing host to my buddy's host/name & then running his adsense on them.
The only problem is, I don't want these traced back to my account ever, so if there is a chance of that, I'd rather just drop the sites.
Any help is appreciated.

Google probably keeps a history of IPs for each domain, which is very easy to do, so you're hoping it won't catch on. If you'd rather drop the sites, drop em. Or just create a new adsense account and put ads on them, then there's no way they will be linked, especially if they are on a new IP.

Originally Posted by BHMan

Or just create a new adsense account and put ads on them, then there's no way they will be linked, especially if they are on a new IP.

I'm not following you.

I would not worry much about being traced back to your main sites / GAS account. Once you transfer your domains to different owner and he's gonna use different GAS account, I would say there is NO WAY goggle will ever ban YOURS because of some other owner / site terms violation.

Of course, I am aware of:
- Google having a registrar-level access to WHOIS DBs, so they definitely know all the detailed history of domain owners
- Google keeping track of domain hosting history
- multiple examples of the whole GAS account being banned b/c of just one site terms violation

However, this is not your case. In your case, its a diff site owner, diff GAS account. If G would ever ban, they would open themselves for multiple "lost revenue" law suite possibilities I am positive they will not ban previous domain owner's GAS accounts.

Just my educated guess. So bottom line - it is good to be paranoid about your GAS account, but only to the certain level

Just to add to my previous post:

- sure, they can technically trace those domains back to you (based on whois history / hosting history)

- however, the most they will do is a MANUAL REVIEW of your sites. If your sites are safe for manual review, then there is nothing to worry about