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Domain Banned? Now What?

by seekyt
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I run a somewhat popular and successful revenue sharing website. I have spent up to twelve hours per day for years moderating content and building it up to get it to where it needs to be.

Google appears to have banned my domain (seekyt.com) from serving AdSense ads. I did not receive an email or message telling me what I did wrong or telling me that I violated any rule. My account is not disabled because I can still log into it. This appears to be a domain specific issue.

What would you do in this scenario? I'm not going to give up on 15K+ articles, 5K+ authors, 10K+ comments, etc.

Would it be possible to buy a new domain, reroute all traffic via .htaccess to the new domain so that I don't lose out on existing traffic, and just transfer the entire site over to the new domain name? It seems to me like this would solve the problem and get us all back to normal as soon as possible. If I knew which rule was violated, I could edit the new site accordingly to make sure the rules aren't broken again.

Then again, I'm not sure of the logistics involved in setting up .htaccess to work with the new site. I assume it would be easy to reroute all traffic to a single page, but I'm not sure how difficult it might be to reroute all traffic to a new domain with the same exact page heirarchy - i.e., mysite.com/some-cool-article/ redirects to mynewsite.com/some-cool-article/ I'm sure I can find the answer in a technical forum somewhere.

Is this a bad idea or do people do this sort of thing?
#banned #domain
  • Profile picture of the author bobcarlsjr
    if google has "ban" or "blacklisted" the domain.. using .htaccess the crawlers will identify your new website and do the same..

    my advice is fix the problem first and then maybe consider using .htaccess to redirect the traffic.. or google might "unban" your old domain?

    hard to tell really without more information from your end..
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  • Profile picture of the author Ansari
    Has you domain been de-indexed from Google or is it just AdSense? If it is just AdSense why not try and replace them with CPA offers that appeal to the demographic of your site or you could list your site with some media buys company where people can buy ads directly on your site?

    If you site has been de-indexed then .htaccess will need to be done, this may not restore your rankings but at least you can still capture all the direct type in traffic
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  • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
    This is exactly why I suggest people do not depend on adsense or Google for their business exclusively. Once you are banned, it is pretty much done.

    I would keep working on your site and add other ad networks, affiliate networks, etc. to it.

    Also, build a list and then you always own you list to market to regardless of anything else.

    You will probably make more money do these things then you ever made with adsense anyway.

    Good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author seekyt
    Thanks everybody. I actually think I understand what happened - Google sent the notification to one of my members whose account was visible on the page when Google found the error. More than likely, out of fear or shame, this member never came back to Seekyt to make changes or to let me know about the email, effectively shutting the site down for everyone.

    I guess I'll move on to a new ad network.
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  • Profile picture of the author martworld
    You have taken a right decision. Go for another ad network.
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  • Profile picture of the author zapunited
    How about moving to zapunited.com ? We can manage revenue sharing for your authors too. If you are interested please feel free to contact me.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Note to everyone:

      Don't put adsense on any site where people can add or change
      content. This includes comment pages. Apparently you
      were letting people publish anything and everything. What
      did you expect? People on the net are spammers, con
      artists, and scammers.

      Digitalpoint had theirs disabled at one time, but came out
      okay. They were large enough to get around that.

      What I would do with that site, is charge people a modest
      lifetime membership fee to post articles. Like $5 or less.
      Let the people who are there now get a free pass.

      Forget the revenue share. Make it a place for people to
      get backlinks.

      Your TOS should have included something like we reserve the
      right to change the rules at anytime.

      An adsense disable is not a ban. Your ads still might work on
      other sites. Take the hint and move on.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author bobcarlsjr
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        Note to everyone:

        Don't put adsense on any site where people can add or change
        content. This includes comment pages. Apparently you
        were letting people publish anything and everything. What
        did you expect? People on the net are spammers, con
        artists, and scammers.

        Digitalpoint had theirs disabled at one time, but came out
        okay. They were large enough to get around that.

        What I would do with that site, is charge people a modest
        lifetime membership fee to post articles. Like $5 or less.
        Let the people who are there now get a free pass.

        Forget the revenue share. Make it a place for people to
        get backlinks.

        Your TOS should have included something like we reserve the
        right to change the rules at anytime.

        An adsense disable is not a ban. Your ads still might work on
        other sites. Take the hint and move on.

        Paul
        :confused::confused:

        almost EVERY forum i am on has adsense on it.. are you saying all those webmasters are wrong??
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        • Profile picture of the author paulgl
          Originally Posted by bobcarlsjr View Post

          :confused::confused:

          almost EVERY forum i am on has adsense on it.. are you saying all those webmasters are wrong??
          Stupid is as stupid does.

          Big, authoritative forums get by.

          Not sure why you say EVERY forum has adsense on it.
          I see none on the WF.

          Just look at all the threads here on people getting banned.
          Are you saying because everybody does something then
          it's okay? A fool and his adsense are soon parted.

          I'm not necessarily talking about forums. I'm talking about
          unmoderated content especially. Like the OP's site.
          Allowing anyone to post an article on anything is dumb.
          Many topics are against adsense.

          But, WTF. Get banned. Just don't come here whining....

          Paul
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          • Profile picture of the author bobcarlsjr
            Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

            Stupid is as stupid does.
            i guess you're right paul.... such a clever person!!! maybe you should become president..

            since OBVIOUSLY you have proven all these SUCCESSFUL webmasters wrong.. and in case you didn't get my sarcasm.. every single one of those FORUMS have ADSENSE:

            Joomla! • Index page

            Categories - Kunena

            Simple Machines Community Forum - Index

            Online Internet Marketing & Search Engine Optimization Forum

            SitePoint » Web Design, Web Development, Freelancing, Tech News and more

            need more examples???

            OH. and do you know blogger (which belongs to google AND also has the ability for users to post comments (moderated or not)) recommend adsense??

            Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

            Not sure why you say EVERY forum has adsense on it.
            I see none on the WF.
            er................ please re-read and read CLEARLY before you try and put forth an argument.. i said "ALMOST" every forum has adsense.. not EVERY FORUM. obviously i know that warrior has no adsense.. i am posting on here right now... :confused::confused: and i thought you were suppose to be "cleverer" than the rest of us? lol..

            Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

            Just look at all the threads here on people getting banned.
            Are you saying because everybody does something then
            it's okay? A fool and his adsense are soon parted.
            again, stupid and inconclusive argument. that makes no sense at all. :confused: it doesn't mean it's okay but it doesn't mean that it's not. let me put it this way.. if all of your friends are donating to charity, does that make it NOT okay to donate??? you're just going in circles!

            please refer to my first quotation to you. obviously forums/boards and doing it and being successful at it therefore everyone are following. if it was illegal, going to get u banned, do you think ALL those sites and probably 99% of other forums will be having ads?


            Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

            I'm not necessarily talking about forums. I'm talking about
            unmoderated content especially. Like the OP's site.
            Allowing anyone to post an article on anything is dumb.
            Many topics are against adsense.
            this is agree with you. but at the end of the day, it's not the software, cms, forum, or website builder which is being used. it is THE WEBMASTER who ensures the quality and moderation of posts on his/her website. it has nothing to do with whether it is a forum or not.


            Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

            But, WTF. Get banned. Just don't come here whining....

            Paul

            this is a free forum, people can whine if they want to. if you don't like it, just click "x" on the top right hand corner of your screen or hit the back button. you don't own this forum so please don't talk like you do. thank you.

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  • Profile picture of the author Jon Penberthy
    Yeah good idea, just shoot to another network.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      digitalpoint had their adsense disabled on the forum, but
      was able to recover. Just as I stated. Just because large,
      authoritative sites that have a good google relationship
      can do most anything, does not mean you or I can get
      away with it. Proof? The OP. Case closed.

      But I hear that a lot. Oh this site and that site does it, so
      why can't I...boo-hoo...

      Well, then they come in droves boo-hooing about how they lost
      an adsense account.

      Go on with your badself.

      A fool and his adsense are soon parted.

      I guess we have the all inclusive adsense TOS for
      wannabes:

      "If you see a site get away with something, it must be okay!"

      Rock on, baby!

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author bobcarlsjr
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        digitalpoint had their adsense disabled on the forum, but
        was able to recover. Just as I stated. Just because large,
        authoritative sites that have a good google relationship
        can do most anything, does not mean you or I can get
        away with it. Proof? The OP. Case closed.
        have you seen the adsense TOS? there are a million reasons why OP got banned. might not have been because of the articles.

        btw did you learn probability in school? just because of 1 occurance here doesn't mean "case closed". who in the right mind uses a sample size of ONE? lol. assuming you used me as the case.. and my forums are doing fine with adsense.. then i suppose you could say "ohh~~~ adsense is legal and will work with all forums"......... way to go contradicting yourself there. LOL

        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        But I hear that a lot. Oh this site and that site does it, so
        why can't I...boo-hoo...

        Well, then they come in droves boo-hooing about how they lost
        an adsense account.

        Go on with your badself.

        A fool and his adsense are soon parted.

        I guess we have the all inclusive adsense TOS for
        wannabes:

        "If you see a site get away with something, it must be okay!"

        Rock on, baby!

        Paul
        you just keep missing the point :confused: is my english that bad or are you not able to comprehend simple sentences?

        it is NOT that because other sites are doing it so that makes it ok.

        it's because it IS legal/appropriate to use adsense on sites where users are allowed to contribute and post comments/articles.

        if it wasn't, DON'T YOU THINK ADSENSE TOS WOULD STATE THAT?

        like i said, the onus is on the webmaster to moderate/tidy up his site.. if he gets banned from adsense, that's because he didn't do enough due diligence.. if he works hard and keep crap away from his sites, adsense would be a happy partner of his.

        and oh yah, since you like using examples, refer to my blogger example above. since google allows adsense on blogger (which is owned by google) in case you didn't know, that means sites which allow user content are allowed to use adsense....... don't argue with this point and make yourself look silly. the big G OWNS both adsense and blogger.
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  • Profile picture of the author sunray
    The problem with comments should be solved if every comment gets moderated first.
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    • Profile picture of the author bobcarlsjr
      Originally Posted by sunray View Post

      The problem with comments should be solved if every comment gets moderated first.
      finally someone gets it :p
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