Redirect Adsense banned site

[andrewm]

Hi!

One of our sites was banned two months ago from adsense but still getting traffic from google. It has a huge amount pages indexed. I want to share with you our planning to monetize that traffic:

-Remove the adsense from the banned site
-301 Redirect each page to other page in a new domain (with a similar template)
-Wait until the SERP show the pages in the new domain
-Remove the old domain (show 404 error in any page)
-Setup adsense from other account in the new domain

Anybody tried that before? Any suggestions?
Thanks

[edited by: andrewm at 3:03 pm (utc) on Sep 16, 2011]

[wheel]

I'm certainly no expert but:
- not sure what you mean by 'stop the old domain'.
- You're playing whack-a-mole with Google. The reason you were banned likely still exists on the new domain. From what little reading I've done on this, I expect they'll easily see through your carefully crafted plan and just ban your new account.
- now is the time to get off adsense. If you've got traffic, go look at who advertises on adsense in the site's niche. Send them emails, attempt to sell advertising directly to the advertiser, cut Google out of the loop. Then you don't have to do any 301 redirects, deal with a ban, whatever. You're in control.

I expect others with experience with adsense and banning will be able to comment specifically. Not sure what you did to get banned, it's certainly not just serving crappy content :). Goodness knows I've got adsense on some awful smelly sites and they don't have any problem serving ads.

[andrewm]

Thanks wheel! Some additional information that might be useful:

- By "Stop the old domain" I mean just remove it (show 404 error in any page)
- The account is not getting banned only the domain is not serving ads anymore. I understand that still some risk doing that plan. Just want to know if is the lower risky strategy.
- We aren't in any niche, its a generic site. Right now we have other ad providers but the performance is extremely poor (Chitika & Adbrite)

Thanks again!

[eeek]

Have you appealed the ban?

[andrewm]

We didn't change anything in the site, so the reasons for get the site banned still there

[netmeg]

Oh yea, that's a good plan. Not.

[bhartzer]

If you have not changed the content, just moving it to another domain is not going to help. In fact, it could possibly get your entire account banned, not just that one site.

There are other ways to monetize your site other than AdSense. I would keep the same site and content, remove AdSense completely from the site, and find another way to monetize the site.