Buying website which has adsense on it

How to remove the adsense and re-aply with new login

[jhonyjhony]

I am soon buying a website which has adsense on just 5% of the pages. This person has changed his business since last 3 years and gets around 100$ in 4 months. He doesnt have access to the email address which he used to login to adsense nor does he know adsense password.

Can anyone advice how do I go ahead with this.

1. If I signup with the google adsense again with the same URL, will google consider this and accept the same website again
2. If I should put one other website, register with adsense, remove the old adsense script and keep my new code?

Any other suggestions are very much welcome. Please suggest if there are any precautions to be taken.

Thanks

[Roadkill]

Be careful........ make sure that there have not been any problems with the account in respects to google or anyone else. Spend some time researching the history of the site.

Good luck

[trillianjedi]

He doesnt have access to the email address which he used to login to adsense nor does he know adsense password.

This is off-topic to the original question, but I don't like the smell of this.

Be ultra-careful and check everything out before you actually hand any money over. Use a broker with escrow services if you do proceed - send no money direct.

Back on topic, have you tried asking google? They have a support request form here:-

[google.com...]

TJ

[adds]

Hello,

I've recently done exactly the same.. Except I sold one of my sites to my wife for tax purposes. We simply created a new AdSenese account in her name, and switched the pubID in the adsense code over. No problems at all.

A.

[caran1]

If he doesnt know his email id and password, how do you know he is telling you his Adsense earnings accurately?

[WallyWorld]

If the site has AdSense on it now, you at least know it isn't banned by AdSense. You can just put your own publisher ID in the ads when you take control.

However, it is very easy for a seller to produce false traffic and earnings data. Make sure you pay by credit card so you have some recourse if you find you've been defrauded. Paying by Paypal only will protect you up to a possible $1000.

[jomaxx]

Do we really know this? I seem to recall threads in which people were banned and then put AdSense back on their site using a new account (probably only to be banned again).

[WallyWorld]

Adsense can ban the user or the site or both. I don't see how a banned site would be able to get Adsense working again.

[humblebeginnings]

As I believe there have been reports in this forum about publishers who got the "you have been banned" mail, but their ads kept showing up for several weeks afterwards. I can't judge about this individual case but... If someone is careless enough to lose their Adsense password, how careless do you think this person could be towards the Adsense TOS? I would be careful if I were you. Anyway, best of luck!

[Leva]

Besides the viability of his adsense account, I'd also be concerned about who actually OWNS the site.

Someone in France "bought" my site and sent me an e-mail asking me to transfer over the domain to them.

'Cept I never put the domain up for auction, had no intention of selling it, and wasn't aware of the "sale." Woops.

Leva

[Paris]

I wouldn't be so quick to rely on the initial smell test to assume that this smells fishy. The original owner is clearly not as AdSense-obsessed as most of us here. AdSense on just 5% of your pages? If it's a pure content site, bah! Since the site appears to be at least 3 years old it may very well rank well too.

It's quite possible that the owner may have moved on to a different e-mail account, forgotten the password and been content collecting his passive royalties.

I'm fairly sure that it's not how anyone here would have done it, but it doesn't mean the person is a shyster.

I would just make sure that I don't overpay for the site. Don't assume that 5% amounts to $100 every four months so 100% of the pages with AdSense would amount to $2,000 every four months. It could be worse -- far worse. It can also even be better.

[jhonyjhony]

Thank you very much your replies. This is a great forum.

To further clarify

1. I know the owner of the site personally. I know him since long time and since he started the website.
2. He is now in altogether in different business.

The price of this website is nothing, but I am sure it has lots of hits as its 6 years old site. I think, in a years time with little efforts on new content, I should be able to cover its cost, provide google doesnt ban me due to any reasons.

Besides that I am an SEO and such old sites are good to write good content and link back to my clients site.

My question is that the current owner has applied for adsense, for this website. If I also apply for adsense for the same website, will google accept the second application for the same domain name.

[WallyWorld]

You don't have to apply using that site. If you have other sites you can apply using one of them then put ads on any site you own or control. Just don't mix different publisher's ads on the same site.