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Imagine the following setup. I have a page with 2 frames: top and bottom. The top frame is 10% of the page and the bottom is 90%. I load two articles, article_1 into the top frame and article_2 into the bottom frame.
The article_1 loaded into the top frame has adsense unit on the top of it and since the frame is 10% of the page, ONLY Adsense is visible to the user. The article_2 has no Adsense and is displayed to the user in the bottom frame.
Effectively it turns out that
1. I serve Adsense of article_1 as it was related to article_2 (in fact, it is related, all articles are on the same topic).
2. I have a top frame that shows no content (although you can scroll it down and see the actual content) but AdSense.
Is it allowed? I've looked through the TOS and couldn't find a rule that wouldn't allow to do something like that. But still it looks like a trick and I'm nervous.
What do you think? If you think it is not allowed, would your answer change if the page division was 20% top frame, 80% bottom and the content of the top frame was partially visible? 50%/50%?
Why I do that? Just to keep the frame structure with navigation and Adsense in the top frame and the content in the bottom frame.
Thanks.
Frames are problem and should be avoided at all costs.
If the content in both pages(top and main frames) is similar, most of the time you will get similar or the same ads. Use SSI and feel better for not being seen as trying to trick Google. :)
You can still place that other article you're placing on the top frame on the same page. Use another Server Side Includes for that other article just below the main article... Maybe with a subtitle "Related Articles"
If your concern is using .shtml for being able to SSI, that's no problem. Your URLs can stay the same as they are(htm, html, whatever) Just add this line to your .htaccess file.(Assuming you're on a Unix server)
AddHandler server-parsed .html
There you go. Your .html pages can now parse SSI.
