Check a site isn't banned from AS

[wonderboy]

Hi,

I am looking into buying a website, just wondering if there is any way to check it isn't banned from AS, wouldn't want to pay out a fair chunk of money to then find out my advertising opportunities are reduced.
I did ask the guy that owns it, and he responded (and I quote) - "I don't know". Hehe.

Cheers.
W.

[gamiziuk]

Give him a snippet of your Adsense code to test out on the site. If ads display, then the site should be Kosher for Adsense.

[ownerrim]

"Give him a snippet of your Adsense code to test out on the site. If ads display, then the site should be Kosher for Adsense."

Whoaa! Does anyone else think this is NOT a good idea.

[YesMom]

Oh, boy. I agree *not* a good idea.

I think this is however an excellent reason for emailing Adsense support.

"I'm considering purchasing a domain/website and want to make sure it has a clean record (if any record at all) with AdSense before making a purchase."

Wouldn't that be the sensible thing to do in this case?

[frox]

Well, yes and not.

I see your point, but if using someone's snippet on a banned site hurted the publisher, anybody with a banned site would have a weapon in its hands...

EDIT:
look up the site into archive.org: do older versions have adsense?
If no his claim not to know is crebible, otherwise....

[moneyraker]

Hmmm...The "I don't know" reply sounds fishy to me. Shouldn't the owner, of all people, be the one to know if it got banned from Adsense or not?

[lammert]

... and he responded (and I quote) - "I don't know". Hehe.

In the past when I was not in the contextual advertising business I didn't know what adsense was and I would probably also have answered "don't know" in that situation.

If this person knows about advertising, he also has heard from adsense and in that case "don't know" is "yes" in my opinion. So track the history of the site on archive.org and other sources if you don't trust the seller.

[blairsp]

A quick e-mail to the adsense team will tell you. I e-mailed them for a client who was thinking about purchasing a site and they told him categorically about the site.

[Eterion]

Same with what everyone else said above. More than likely, any webmaster using ad-revenue systems have heard of AdSense, so a "I dont know" can be seen as equivalent to a parent asking a child with red hands if they were playing in the can of red paint or not and the child replies "I dont know".
Its pretty much common sense. If the guy is hiding it and cant be upfront with his site features, you should move on. Most webmasters know enough about their site to know if they have had ads on there or not.

[iROFL]

I was able to put my adsense code on a website that was banned for 3 days till I decided to remove it :D. It was my friends site and he got himself banned sadly.

My friend was only getting less then 50 uniques and I think google got a hard time keeping track of smaller sites.

[cemm]

I have a handy tool that can actually give a very good indication of whether a site is banned in Adsense or not.

Just not sure if it is allowed to post a direct link here to a free public adsense tool/resource, or if it would be considered *bad*..

Hope that some of the "older" members at this forum can reply, so more people can benefit from it.

In the meantime, I guess anyone interested can PM me for the url.

[WebWalla]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it an "account" that is banned (or more correctly closed), rather than a website?

Surely if a website complies with all AdSense conditions there is nothing to stop you putting your code on there.

Or does anybody have a real example of code that displays correctly on 1 website and when being put on another not displaying properly because of a ban?

[xxxxxpp]

nope, not only the account get's banned, the website the ads were on gets banned too. they ban about every info they have on you: your account, your name, your banc account number, your ip address, your site,...

[cemm]

I have a rather old and oudated site, that was rejected from the adsense program.

When I enter "my" adsense code into it, it simply displays "you are not allowed to view this page".

The code works perfectly on my other sites.

So in this case, it is my opinion that a site gets banned, not the code.

If an account gets banned, wouldnt that be the same as termination of the account?