conroy - 8:23 pm on Jul 12, 2012 (gmt 0)

Gouri,

The ad was at the top of all pages. That was the only block of adsense on all the pages. So when it was removed, adsense was no longer on the site at all.

Affiliate links that are throughout the articles (including some banner affiliate links at the very bottom of the pages) remained in place.