I plan to buy this entertainment website but it has been banned from adsense almost a year ago. So what do you guys suggest me SHOULD or SHOULD NOT?
email google what you should do. how can you know the website has been banned? usually google ban the account, not domain name.
Why don't you ask Google about the situation. I have a feeling see that if their account were banned then they may have also put a red flag on the domain names that the account holder owned. So if you have an Adsense account and put ads on that site they may not show up anymore.
I've asked the account owner whether they had adsense before or not, they said yes but google banned their account due to invalid clicks or something. Do you have google email so I can email their rep. before buy this website ?
man! all banned accounts are invalid clicks and might refered to related previous banned account in addition.
someone has tried it (can't remember which post it is, maybe you do a search for it).... he got banned....he tried using another adsense account... but the ads wouldnot show...
If site is worth, buy. And start displaying AdSense from your account. Google does ban accounts, not sites. Proven
Buy it, but just inform google that you bought the site, before placing your ad codes. They usualy say that you can use your ads if site is within TOS. google's mail -
http://www.jensense.com/archives/2006/03/safeguarding_yo.html That is how to check and see if a site is blocked from showing AdSense. If it is blocked, your ads will not show up at all. Whether AdSense will allow you to show ads on a banned site seems to be on a case by case basis, so you would need to check with them on it.
Your adsense account would be different hence it would work. It doesn't matter if it was banned before because people do buy and sell domain names.
Not true. I do know many who were unable to lift an AdSense ban after purchasing a site. After all, if Joe Publisher got his big money maker site banned, he would "sell" it to a new company name with a different mailing address that he still owned, then email AdSense stating "I just bought this site and I found out it is banned". And I know people who have tried that too If a site has been banned, even my publisher ID won't work on it, the ban covers all AdSense accounts, and it is a definite gamble to buy a site basing it on AdSense allowing ads on it again.
Glad to see you around Jen.. I have a question, My company bought few sites from someone else. one or two sites are previously banned from adsense. I did mail to google and asked them, whether I should put adsense on those sitesor not since they're banned. The reply I got wasnt very clear, they just said - So what should I do, I didnt place ads on those websites.
It seems that because you brought it of someone then it could still be breaking Adsense's TOS. So I think you may have to redesign it so that it is not breaking the TOS. If it is already different to what it was and does abide by Adsense's TOS then I would send them an email telling them that you brought the site of someone and noticed that it was previously banned, so you have now redesigned the whole site and it now follows the Adsense TOS and ask them could you have a quick glance it and un-ban that individual site. I don't know if the above would work, but I guess you would not know if you don't try.
If the site is banned, then what is your motivation for wanting it? At some point you'd obviously like to run Google AS on it, but what makes it so palatable that you want it now in its current condition. If the site is getting good traffic, and/or you merely think the site has great potential, I'd focus on other options for the time being. For example, if you want the site because it's getting good traffic, move its content to a new domain and 301-redirect the incoming traffic to the new site. Also, they are a lot of other great ad publishing programs that might work well with the site without spending time fretting over just Google.