What is Sellers.json? AdSense for Beginner Bloggers
If you are an AdSense user, you may notice that there is a new notification in your dashboard concerning sellers.json file. Google is telling you to include your seller information in the sellers.json file.
You may be wondering: what is sellers.json file and what should you do about it?
For beginners or non-corporation blog owners, you do no have to be too concerned about the sellers.json notification. I believe it will not affect your blog's monetization status.
Read further to understand more about sellers.json file and its implication on your AdSense account.
What is sellers.json file?
Simply put, sellers.json file is a publicly-available file which stores AdSense publishers data. Bloggers who use AdSense are considered as a publisher. So if your personal blog is approved by AdSense, you are a publisher which has partnership with Google.
You are publishing information in your blog and get paid by Google via AdSense.
Because you are a publisher which uses AdSense, your data will be included in sellers.json file. You can access the file at Inserting Link Inside Blogger Comment Section - Will It Increase Ranking?
Does sellers.json file have any impact on AdSense revenue?
For small publishers/blog owners, I believe sellers.json file has no impact on AdSense revenue. There is no explicit statement from Google which mention that sellers.json will increase or decrease your revenue.
So it doesn't really matter whether you choose Confidential or Transparent.
However, having a transparent info may be beneficial in the long run, espeically if you are a big publisher. Advertisers may prefer to put ads in a website which has clear and transparent information for accountability reason.
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