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the lawyered up version of the new "Google AdSenseTM Online Standard Terms and Conditions" has me confused. it states the following:
"You shall not display any Ad Unit on a page that contains Ads associated with another Google AdSense customer (e.g., Your Web hosting company), unless authorized to do so by Google."
on the other hand, the much more reader friendly "Google AdSense Programme Policies" states the following:
"We do allow affiliate or limited-text links."
this has got me in a bit of a twist as i am working on a site which is heavy on the links, especially of the affiliate variety. surly these affiliate sites are AdSense customers!?
also, does interlacing affiliate links in my own text (i.e. no graphics) count as a "content-targeted advertisement"? what if it's an affiliate link in a link directory (again, no graphics)?
thanks for your thoughts...
In the frst case, you can't have AdSense ads of your own AND AdSense ads that come from a host on the same page. Take a look at a Geocities site and you will see what I mean. Geocities frames every page and puts a row of AdSense ads up. If you have a Geocities-based site, you can't do AdSense.
Text affiliate links are OK, SO LONG AS THEY DO NOT LOOK LIKE ADSENSE ADS. I have hundreds of links to Amazon, for example, throughout my site, in articles, in little ads, and so on, and that's not a problem. Browse the site in my profile if you want to see examples. They can be contextual only in the sense that YOU have put them in the right context--if a page is about widgets, you can have a text link that goes to a book about widgets at Amazon. However, you can not have an ad space that serves up affiliate ads automatically, based on the content of the page, in the way that AdSense does.
