Hi. I've just purchased an established website, which had adsense ads on it with its previous owner. I now want to apply for my Adsense account. Do I remove all traces of adsense before applying? Or do I change the pub-nnnnnnnn to pub-test ? Thanks Dave.
pub-test should be fine. Just a tip: if you want to speed up the approval procedure, apply with a blogspot blog.
Thats a handy tip thanks .. I'd already submitted my application but if I get knocked back I'll bear this in mind! Thanks.
It might also be worth contacting Adsense support and mentioning that you have purchased **** site and that it had the Adsense of its previous owner on it, and can they make a note to disassociate you with this other publisher. Just in case this person has/or does in the future, break the TOS and get banned. You could possibly run the risk of being banned as an associated account. We were told by a rep that a note could be made in our account to this effect. Just an idea... take it or leave it. It may never be a problem, but sometimes it's better to plan to avoid a problem, rather than try to rectify it if it does happen.