When Adsense bans you it can seem like the end of the world, especially when you banked your online income on Google's lucrative ad-revenue system. However while the account holder (that's you) is banned "forever", the domain is not. What will have to happen to get ads running on that domain again is to prove to Google, to their satisfaction, that those domains are no longer owned by the banned person. A method that I have coached some people to use successfully (which I only recommend if those sites were actually generating income, because this method costs money) is to do the following: 1) Incorporate a new company. Delaware is among the cheapest places to do this, and you need not live there to do it. 2) Write up a bill of sale between you and your new corporation for the domains and sites that you want to get ads running on again. Have someone other than you (with a different last name) sign the contract on behalf of your corporation. Any friend can do this. 3) Register a brand new domain and get hosting for it. Install Wordpress, or your favorite blogging platform on it. 4) Write at least five posts (original material). Your writing does not need to be good or even professional. It just as to be unique. 5) Apply to Adsense with your new domain as the only one in your profile. 6) Wait for them (Adsense) to accept you (it can happen in an hour, or it can take up to three days). 7) Once they accept you, wait another week and contact them via email to let them know that you bought the profile of someone who had been banned and give them the full list of domains. Do not send the bill of sale unless they ask for it. 8) Wait another few days until they get back to you with the go ahead for those domains (this can take a week or so). 9) Replace the ad units on the domains with your new ad units under your corporation's Adsense account. 10) Open a business account at a different bank than your personal account is with and wait for the Adsense checks to arrive. 11) Come back to this thread and share your success story with everyone here!
I think this would work as it does all make sense, but I have heard of stories of the site being banned as well, people buying sites and then finding the site is banned forever and what then seemed a good deal (if they bought the site cheap thinking adsense had never run on it). BUT...Clause 5 (x) in the TOC's reads you may not "create a new account to use the Program after Google has terminated this Agreement with You as a result of your breach of this Agreement;" - This clearly indicates that once your banned that's it. And now you have highlighted this method here (and I am sure it will have worked for some of your clients) that Google will be taking a very keen interest in all such transfers - Given the size of this forum I should think Google has several people monitoring it. Their anti-fraud department in the UK Europe alone is rumoured to be 200+ people.
You are quite correct. However remember that Google makes money when you put their ads on your site. They are not in the business of cutting off revenue sources. They are in the business of doing due diligence on behalf of their Adwords advertisers. As long as you give them the luxury of plausible deniability you will be fine. i have not had one client to get a site accepted back into the program with this method (more than 20 so far).
If this works then this needs to be in a place where people can easily find it. There are countless people getting baned here and asking how to get unbanned. Nice tips.
It works. I know it for a fact. Hopefully some DP members who lost money by getting banned benefit from it.
A site can be easily turned around. For example, if a site was full of cheap, unoriginal content that was clearly MFA, then a ban would be reasonable. A rebranding and rebuild of such a site, (along with acknowledgement that a new owner has been taken on board), would more than likely get re-accepted.
Could you not just open a new account at godaddy(for example) and then transfer the domain to a new account and then request a new account along with a email saying you have brought the domain?
No. That account would still be in your name, and Google does check Whois records when considering reactivation of banned accounts. The domain has to be registered to someone other than the person who got banned. My recommendation is to incorporate because 1) You still remain in charge of your domains (as opposed to transferring them to a friend, family member, etc.) 2) Google deals much more nicely with corporate partners and, in my experience, corporate clients even get a higher per-click premium, although Google never admits to this.
More than an idea. I've coached and assisted several people in using this method to successfully restore their access to the lucrative Adsense system. For some people Adsense represents their sole way of making money online and getting banned is akin to being suddenly fired from a well paying job. For those who have a need, there's the proven method. Use it, or improve it.
Well I can't speak for the U.K., having never done business there directly, but in the U.S.A. a corporation is in independent entity which is legally distinct from any individual. Thus, from a legal standpoint a banned person could open a new account on behalf of their corporation and still be well within the TOS guidelines, as stated. I can't imagine that corporate law in the U.K. is much different, but I could be mistaken. This method may not work everywhere, but it does work in the U.S.
The steps given above makes complete sense. Hats off to whomever thought about these kind of steps to get around adsense ban!