Buying a website with Adsense Changing the Publisher Account Number

If I like the site can I just change the account number?

[newborn]

Hello I bought a website from a friend that has his own adsense ads on it. Is it ok to just change the publisher numbers, keep the ads the way they are and change the companies name on the footer. My friend also has a google sitemaps account should I tell him to just close it then add the site to my Google Sitemaps account. I want to do this tonight can some one help me urgently…?

[newborn]

Help someone please?

[Quadrille]

Pesronally, I'd remove all his ads and redo the lot.

Unless you are absolutely sure this numeral is the only difference.

Your adsense account is way too important to take ANY risks with it.

And changing the ad code gives you the chance t review the settings to your taste, so it's going to be a useful exercise.

And if it's time consuming, this is the chance to design a better way using server side includes or whatever ...

[newborn]

Wow thats just too hard to do its almost 800 pages. I use front page and I have to actually go in and change every page as G adsense is actually on every page. Arent the Publisher numbers different. Should I email google firts and ask them the best way to do this?

[swa66]

Well, you might recheck the ToS cause publishers need to make sure they have the ability to make changes to adsense code *fast* .

I use SSI (or similar through php) to include the ads. That way my changes are limited to just a very few files.

Aside of that: any permissions your friend had to make changes to the code (e.g. to make it xhtml compliant) have not been given to _you_, so you should check the code is pristine before considering to only change the publisher ID.

analytics: just add the site to your account and de-authorize his, he can keep it)

[Quadrille]

In general, you are specifically NOT allowed to alter the code. So you will need permission.

But having code individually on each page is pretty loopy; much better to use ssi, php, templates, whatever - and nows the time to fix it!

[rbacal]

Wow thats just too hard to do its almost 800 pages. I use front page and I have to actually go in and change every page as G adsense is actually on every page. Arent the Publisher numbers different. Should I email google firts and ask them the best way to do this?

800 pages shouldn't be so bad, provided the same code(s) were used across all pages, since you should be able to do global search and replaces for the entire codes. The more codesets used, the harder, and obviously if each ad has a different channel allocation, S&R for the entire codes won't work.

Keep in mind that adsense codes do and have changed since the beginning. It's worth fixing the mess now.

[frox]

My suggestion: you have a new site, it's a good oocasion to review it carefully page by page, and know its contents as if it were yours ... and put adsense in a server-side include and re-organize its adsense channels in a way that you..

[trannack]

Yep - whats the urgency? I would suggest you slow down a bit. Take a good hard look at the site. Make any changes now, before you re-upload.

Re changing the ads in frontpage - piece of piss. Just find and replace. OK - so there may be different varients on different pages, but not every page will have a unique ad layout.