Adsense in forums

Ad revenue sharing

[sahil123]

Nowadays many forums are using ad revenue sharing program to increase their traffic. Even some of the biggies are also using it. Is it really allowed by Google or they are just taking risk. And if someone ( a user of that forum ) is banned by G, then will all the other members be also banned?

[david_uk]

I notice the forums that do this claim they have gone over the TOS very carefully and can't see that it's forbidden. What I note is that none of them seems to have got clearance from Google to do it.

I'd be inclined to steer clear of participating personally without official Google confirmation that it was OK.

The other point that worries me somewhat is that as smartpricing is account wide, having your code on a poorly performing page might earn you a couple of extra dollars at the expense of smartpricing heavily penalising the rest of your traffic.

Anyway, if it's not against the TOS lets have one here!

[sahil123]

Thanks David..!