Every now and then I get emails from people asking for advice on how to get their Adsense account re-instated because they just had their account banned.
I almost always point them to these types of links:
But I've considered offering to buy sites like these and do one of two things:
1. Get them re-instated myself (not guaranteed, but I could trying playing the "I'm a new owner card / I've fixed the violations" and see how that pans out [I'm in the process of playing that card right now])
2. Switch them over to other monetization methods. These would vary by niche of course but often times just switching over to text based affiliate links to sell the products that were normally being pitched in the Adsense ads can work really well too.
My assumption is that the website owners that get banned really have no idea how to make this money back without adsense so they're probably alright with just dumping the sites.
So my question is two fold:
1. Have you ever bought a website you already knew was banned by Adsense
2. How have you valued websites like these?
I'll leave my opinions to myself on the two questions above, but I'd love to hear what you think.