A former participant in Google's AdSense program has roiled the online publishing community by alleging that Google's pricing system penalizes publishers that have even one low-performing site. In an
Oct. 25 post to WebMasterWorld, the former AdSense publisher, "Kurtpdx," claimed an AdSense representative told him that one low-performing site could cause Google to lower the ad prices of all sites
in the publisher's account. -- Shankar Gupta