Comments on: How to Check if a Site has been Banned from AdSense

By: TerryHeinz

TerryHeinz — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:17:16 +0000

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By: Jobs in Europe

Jobs in Europe — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:57:00 +0000

Google adsense preview tool might be a good way. For some sites which are old and have good content show only public service ads and then I feel there is smt dodgy going on… But, if I would buy the website I would ask the adsense team saying its ownership has changed.

By: Jobs in Europe

Jobs in Europe — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:54:58 +0000

I mean the Google adsense bot must have crawled these sites and there normally should be ads in the preview tool.

By: fatih

fatih — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:53:39 +0000

is it a good way to check adsense preview tool if it is banned or not? because I see only public service ads for some websites which are on sale, although they have proper and enough content to attract ads and they are old enough to be crawled…

By: charles

charles — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:30:34 +0000

i still cant find any online tools to help me check whether a domain had been banned from adsense, if any. this will be helpful, cause i considering to buy over a website, and would like to check this. any help pls?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:53:40 +0000

Sites do sometimes get banned if Google feels the domain name is inappropriate. I had two sites with the words “diet pill” in the domain that were banned from running AS a year or so ago. I got a nice email explaining those sites weren’t allowed to run AS, but that my account overall was fine and my 100+ other domains were fine too. And even though the two sites in question were not selling diet pills or pharmacuetical related products – they were information only sites – Google disabled the AS on them. One other now that I remember it: Had “prescription” in the domain name.

I’d imagine if a domain name sounded too sexual, or could be mistaken for a hate site, or had a cuss word in it, those might also get banned – regardless of how innocent the content might be.

By: raising4boys.com

raising4boys.com — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:02:34 +0000

Huh. Never thought of this as a problem. It seems like it should be the person running the site, and not the site itself, that gets banned. But I can’t really think of a good way of enforcing this.

By: jim

jim — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:21:36 +0000

andy: I bet they probably could but it would take a long time and a lot of effort.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:23:50 +0000

If the site itself has been banned due to content etc. then it would probably continue to be unacceptable.

If however someone bought the URL (say it had expired so there was no actual website in place) and put up different content, could they just be upfront with Google and get the ban ‘reset’ ?

By: Joan Doe

Joan Doe — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:08:32 +0000

lets say this poor guy bought a url that has been ban by adsense, can he somehow use URL mask to re-enable the adsense, or perhaps he can insert a 250px frames, seperated from the content to solve the problem. is it possible?

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By: Derrick

Derrick — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:37:12 +0000

And even if they’re banned by Adsense, they could always throw Yahoo Publisher up there as an alternative…

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:41:58 +0000

Mark, I’m pretty sure that privacy policies and laws would and should preclude Google from disclosing that information to a third party.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 03:20:07 +0000

I’m not sure why she didn’t mention if we could try to contact Google’s AdSense team directly to see if the site is banned or not? That should be a good and accurate way to check, right?