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A little concerned about the placement of my ads

[oldskool79]

I added Google Adsense to my site at the beginning of April and without divulging to much info, lets just say I make 3 times more with Adsense then I do at my regular job as a web developer.

However, their guidelines about where ads can be placed are very vague.

My site has a search function which logs each search a user performed. Whenever a search is performed more than X times per month I build a static page displaying the search results and link it from my site map. These pages get a ton of traffic and that is where I placed the google ads. Does anyone see a problem with this?

[dazzlindonna]

I think that is fine. You can always check with Google to be sure though.

[asp4bunnies]

I believe it's against TOS to link on a search results page. I'd imagine that includes cached search results pages as well.

Remember, AdSense ads are ideally supposed to appear besides actual content, not search results. I believe that Google wants the search results for themselves :)

Definitely can only help if you ask Google.

[totter]

Google will allow you to place adsense on search results. It was changed by them recently.

I have to add that is an awsome idea. I could kiss you right now, but I have to work on a couple of scripts :)

[Never_again]

Google did change the TOS and now allows Adsense on search pages so you should not have a problem.

See item #5 on Jenstar's post at this link:
[webmasterworld.com ]

[suidas]

I wish Google were better at sniffing out and ejecting cached search pages. The only thing worse are all those Amazon affiliates. You can't search for a book review these days; 90% of the results for any book title are Amazon affiliate crap.

[yoyo8]

I wish Google were better at sniffing out and ejecting cached search pages.

Well, if it's cached from content from one's own site that's fine. What I hate is when they are cached using search results from OTHER sites. I see this all the time (with adsense displayed) and this is considered keyword spamming. Not sure if Adsense allows that or not. They don't seem too serious in eliminating it.

[paybacksa]

search like this:

"The Psychology of Persuasion" -amazon.com

to get rid of those spammy Amazon reviews.

[yump]

We do a similar thing where we have varying dynamic content. We don't actually cache the searches because they need to be fresh, but we build a specific search page for main categories on our site, titled and named with the search keywords. (The page has the same database query each time someone uses it). Our visitors can then either do a fresh search or search using our titled searches eg. blue widgets, green widgets etc. A lot more work to do at the start, but if you've got enough searches it can pay off.

If you really want to please your visitors, this also enables you to automatically include mis-spellings in the search, which is handy if you've got people sending stuff onto the site that will then be searchable.

Adsense seems to be able to target these much better than a purely dynamic search page and the CTR is much higher because presumably our visitors, having searched are getting very relevant content off our site and very relevant ads. appearing.

[ChrisKud5]

If it is one of those sites that comes up for a search of a topic, and is nothing but links to off site pages, I would take adesense off, and I would also hope Google bans sites like this from the index.

A page of links to send users off somewhere else and has no unique content while clogging SERP pages is not only a violation of Adsense, but is the root of the problem for the majority of unhappy google users.

[rravenn]

Yes a good idea.... So the more a word is searched the fatter your site gets. Kinda ironic to your site content.

G normally tells you if you are doing something wrong.

RvN

[Freedom]

Amen to what ChrisKud said. There is nothing I hate more on the internet then those ############ phony SERP websites. Including the ones that cut and paste everybody's Title and Description but REMOVE the link, leaving nothing behind but crappy looking SERPish resembling garbage with no links but Google ads.

[paybacksa]

If you accept that:

1. it is very hard/expensive to install a good search facility on your website today (footnote 1, below)

2. relying on G to index your context on the big G site is not enough to make sure your customers find the content scattered throughout your website (footnote 2, below).

Then a page which aggregates your context ON TOPIC, and find its way up the SERPS to users searching ON TOPIC, does indeed serve a very useful purpose for the searcher.

Footnotes:

1. Atomz and other commercial search utilities are very costly for sites over 1000 pages (mine cost over $5000 per year just for the search facility), and free or open source tools (i.e. Dig) do NOT yet perform at a level that meets consumer expectations.

2. In many cases a customer on your site has already narrowed her search, and if you pass her back to a broader SERP from the G site you are not advancing the customer. In addition, G is more and more forced to install summarizers and SERP limiting steps (such as "similar pages not shown -- click here to see them").

[Sharper]

In regards 1. above, you might try Swish-e. Works great for my huge sites that aren't completely in Google.