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On the other hand, if it wasn't the site that was banned, but the account holder (e.g. for click fraud) You may be OK if you can convince G that you have now relationship with the previous owner. If you don't keep G informed you'd risk been banned yourself due if G uncovers connections with a previous banned account holder.
I'm told they have an algorithm and a smart mouse to help them do this. :-¦
Have you been with adsense since 2003, you run 10 websites and are a premium publisher and never had a run in with them? They would probably give you more benefit of a doubt than they would a relative newbie.
If anything, try YPN first (if you are eligible) so you're not moving your Google queen chess piece this aggressively early in the game.
Yes it was the account holder nothing wrong with the website, he was clicking his own ads.
What a knucklehead!
Buy the site. Buy a new domain. Problem solved.
(If the site was designed by someone so smart he thought he could do click fraud, it must be a real winner. Does it come with swampland in Florida?)
p/g
I would not personaly ask for trouble I did not need or want. If you feel you must buy it, maybe not up to building your own, then buy a new domain name and rewrite everything on the site in your own words. Be sure none of the content is under someone elses copyright.
Ann
On a similar thread - how would anyone know if they bought a domain name from a domain-name seller, whether that domain had previously been banned from Adsense? I've never done it, just curious as to how you would find out.
I rested it free of content for a while to let it get unlisted in the search engines; after a few months I added my content again; I noticed I got unexplained PSAs on some pages, while others worked properly.
I asked google adsense support what was going on as the same content on a slightly different URL worked just fine.
From their answer they seem to have had some blocking in place of certain URLs and they removed it.
So I think it's valuable that you tell Google you bought a domainname that might have a history with them and make sure they understand you're not the previous owner anymore.
I can't think of the name of it off the top of my head, but there is at least one whois site that can tell if a domain has ever been in existence. That is how I have chosen the domains that I have, but it takes time to come up with domain names that have never been registered. However, it is the safest route to take.
