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How To Check if a Website is Banned from Adsense

I just read a good post at Jensense about how to check for a Adsense ban and it was even written for website buyers: Safeguarding yourself when purchasing a site for Adsense.

She doesn’t mention the online tools available to see Adsense ads such as Google Adsense Sandbox from DigitalPoint. That’s the one I always start with - if it shows ads then everything seems fine - if it doesn’t shot ads then check again in two hours, and if it still doesn’t show ads then you should investigate further.

Found via Problogger

Tags: adsense ban, banned from adsense, adsense tools

Of interest: You can run a criminal background check on a new babysitter, to make sure he or she is safe, using a background check website.

Add comment March 6th, 2006

Summary of Interesting Websites for Sale Today

There are several interesting websites for sale today, so I’ll just make a short summary of each of them.

The first is for sale at SitePoint:
A t-shirt website called crewddewdsshirts.com. It has a monthly revenue of $500+ made by selling shirts, but also has income from shareasale.com and other sites they are affliated with, along with adsense, bidvertiser, adbrite, etc. The website itself is really clutered with all sorts of stuff like links, banners etc. but it still interesting since it makes money and it gives space for improvement.

The second is for sale at SitePoint:
The website feedbomb.com is a blog / feed directory with 25,000 monthly pageviews from ~3,300 unique visitors. The site makes about $33 dollars a month, but I think this could be improved be placing ads on all pages, and by changing the ad formats. One thing to be aware of is that many bloggers don’t like to have their full feeds published on other sites, so I think it would be a good idea to make the site only show 250-350 charaters of each feed item.

The third is for sale at DigitalPoint:
There isn’t much information in the sales thread - not even the URL - but it is a weight loss related blog that makes decent money ~$3000 a month.

The fourth is for sale at sedo:
The website LoveOGram.com is a simple viral website where people can let other people know that they have a crush on them - anonymously. The website has about 3000 - 4000 daily uniques, and I think it could be monetized much better - even though I don’t know how much the owner is making from it.

Tags: selling websites, websites for sale, buy websites, website sale

Add comment March 4th, 2006

Boy Band Community for Sale, ~250,000 posts

There is a boy band (breeding 5..?) community for sale at Dnforum. The forum is located at www.breeding5.com and seems pretty active. It has about 15,000 monthly uniques and 150,000 monthly pageviews according to seller. There is currently 260,626 posts and 5,245 members.

Almost every forum category has had activity today, and there a lots of threads in which this activity occurs.

It is on auction with a starting bid at $995, but the seller looks for $2,000+. With a $75 monthly adsense revenue this seems a bit high, but I would judge that the adsense is badly implemented, and that there definitely is opportunities for big improvements. Like implemeting more adsense elements - one in between of posts.

Also the indexing in Google and Yahoo is not much, so with a little bit of SEO and link building I guess that you could increase the traffic. That is, if there are searches in this “niche”.

Only thing I would worry about, is potential issues regarding the domain name. I don’t know if this is a real problem, but I recall there beeing some previous cases about using artist names in domains. Heck, I don’t even know what the exact name of the boy band is…

Tags: selling community, selling forum, adsense improvement, domain issues

Add comment February 20th, 2006