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@sebranger Email was from Adsense – “You already have an existing AdSense account”. And it was sent to the “new” email address I was trying to set up Adsense on. (The “new” email address was a gmail address – not sure if that matters or not)

@jamesosborne Adsense has cleared up the account issues and Sitekit is now working.

To recap this for anyone with the same problem – the error for me was due to an Adsense account issue (having a very old account tracked to me that I had completely forgotten about). The site itself was NOT an issue – nor it seems was SiteKit the issue. Once I checked the email address that I was trying to activate Adsense on (thinking I was setting up a new account) I saw an email from Adsense referencing an account I already had on an old email address. Logging into adsense with the old info (that I luckily still had saved in my password manager) I was able to move things forward. My suggestion for anyone at this point would be to ADD in your new email address as an admin to that adsense account and move forward with adding the new site in. Don’t try to delete the account and start over – Adsense will just reactivate the old account for you anyway and you’ll lose time as they straighten things out. If you can’t log in to that old adsense account I don’t know what to suggest except using the password recovery mechanisms.

Again – once the Adsense account was straightened out Sitekit worked flawlessly

Hopefully this helps you @padosky @sebranger and anyone else getting this error.

@jamesosborne Just to clarify / update – the adsense account seems to be 100%. I’ve manually added the code to the site and adsense sees it and they’re in the approval process. Sitekit still giving me the same errors

@jamesosborne problem is that I wasn’t even aware that I had another adsense account. (Google only allows you one per person) Therefore I couldn’t really set up another account although adsense seemingly let me do so and gave me code to put into my site. Later on when attempting to log back into that “new” account it gave me an error and mentioned that I can only have one account – NO you can NOT go into “Sites” section or anything else actually

Then I happened to check my gmail related to the “new” account and there was an email from adsense that referenced an account I had set up like 10 years ago and had completely forgotten. Don’t even have that email address anymore (but I still luckily had the login information saved in my password program I’ve been using forever). @sebranger not sure if that part applies to your problem perhaps? An old account floating out there you forgot about like me?

I was able to add another “user” to that old account as an admin user – that new “user” being a current gmail address. This allowed me to close out the old account so I really could start a new one under my current gmail address. No errors on adsense side – it’s now waiting for me to put the code on my site after doing that.

I then went back into SiteKit and re-installed Adsense using incognito mode.

When I tried to do that it said:

Looks like you’re already using AdSense
Error: Ad client not found.

Site Kit will place AdSense code on your site to connect your site to AdSense and help you get the most out of ads. This means Google will automatically place ads for you in all the best places.

Clearly I’m not already using AdSense lol

I’m going to wait 24 hours – perhaps there’s something that needs to be cleaned out on the Google side?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks James – no, no code has been added – doesn’t get anywhere near that far.

No other error appears.

Same notice is on incognito – tried that first.

I *think* the problem lies with an old adsense account I may have had years ago, I’m now getting a new / different response when logging into adsense that says I’m not allowed to have two accounts. Trying to track that down but I think that is what is freaking out Adsense and therefore SiteKit.