If a site has a manual action in Webmaster tools is adsense affected? Does it depend on the manual action?
Manual action will result in lower traffic and hence lower adsense earnings. Apart from this, there would be no other effect.
If google webmaster tool has manual action, it doesn't effect adsense account. Although, your search engine rankings will be dropped and the traffic from the search engine will be reduced although it doesn't ban or disable your adsense account.
You getting some really bad advice in this thread! Of course this will put your adsense account at risk. Your adsense account can be banned if your site does not comply with the Google Webmaster Guidelines (just read the adsense terms and conditions, if you don't believe me). As you have a manual penalty in your Webmaster tools, then your site is not compliant with the Google Webmaster Guidelines --> therefore, its not compliant with the Adsense guidelines This does not mean that they will ban you; but, there are plenty of examples where adsense accounts have been banned for non-compliance with the webmaster guidelines, so I have no idea where the fools posting above are getting their information from. Perhaps these fools can explain why those with manual webmaster penalties did get banned from Adsense ???? Obviously, you need to get that manual penalty removed ASAP to remove the risk to your Adsense account.
Yeah makes sense thanks, problem is the domain had the issue before I purchased it in Godaddy auctions and there are no links shown in "Sites linking" in webmaster tools. I think the spam links are outside of my control.