I came across this auction today on digital point, it’s a site that’s being auction off for $9,000 based on the site earning around $40 a day…

Problem is that the money is being made from Google Adsense ads, and the ads are against the Google TOS.

So many people are selling dodgy sites with dodgy advertising on it, making quick money and selling the sites before Google shut down their advertising revenue.

The guy says he can easily change the parts that are against the Google TOS, but if he does, then he’s not going to be making $40 a day anymore, his headings and text are for loans, a high paying keyword, if he removes it and puts in relevant content, file uploading, then he’ll drop to probably $5 a day. Maybe more, maybe less, regardless if Google catches on at anytime, they’ll shut the account down all together and ban the site.

Here’s my quick list of rules that have been broken

• May not direct user attention to the ads via arrows or other graphical gimmicks
• May not place misleading images alongside individual ads
• Excessive, repetitive, or irrelevant keywords in the content or code of web pages
• Deceptive or manipulative content or construction to improve your site’s search engine ranking, e.g., your site’s PageRank
• No Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages.

Those are from Google’s Adsense Program Policies.

There are further guidelines that Google recommends webmasters follow in order not to be de-indexed from Google, and this site clearly is outside those guidelines.

Is it really worth having your account shut down over $40 a day?