Adsense on a public blog

Asking for trouble?

[zulu_dude]

I've just put the finishing touches to a site where users can register for their own free blog, (ala blogger.com) and I've started thinking of possible ways to monetise the site. Obviously the first way that sprang to mind was Adsense. My only concern is that it will be placed on each and every blog that signs up... there is only so much that I can do to monitor the content of the blogs, so one or two dodgy pages might slip in unnoticed. Obviously I would state in my terms&conditions that such material isn't allowed, but your average user doesn't always abide by longwinded legal documents.

Would Adsense have a major problem with this? Or would they just show PSA's on the dodgy pages?

Are there any other possible pitfalls that I'm overlooking?

[mrSEman]

What you could do is write your own function that looks for banned keywords to decide if you are going to put AS on that page. You could also run alternative ads on new entries until you aprove the blog for AS. Depending on how busy your site gets, it may become more work than it's worth.

[zulu_dude]

Yeah, I've got something like that... it flags up posts with blacklisted words on it. I'd then need to edit the post or ban the blogger, depending on how severe the offence was.

I think the best way is just going to be to give it a try. If the income isn't worth the effort of keeping the site clean, then I can simply remove the ads, or replace them with YPN (when it goes global) or some other ad network.