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Non-content pages and adsense... a warning

         

Swash

1:51 am on May 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Yesterday morning, I awoke to find the dreaded email from adsense sitting in my inbox. After much pant-soiling and sweating of bullets I openned it and was made aware of the following:

(paraphrased) - "You have placed adsense ads on a non content page such as a popup or welcome page etc etc: the page in question is: (URL) - Adsense bot is not optimised to target advertising when the page contains little significant content. Please remove adsense from all non content pages and read the TOS you naughty boy"

Anyways the page in question was a relatively new page, that had brought my daily income from low $XX.XX per day to low $XXX.XX due to its explosive popularity. I was therefore not a happy chappy. I realised why they had asked this, because as they said, there was no content on the page! I quickly made changes to that and other pages on my site that needed more content for ol' mediabot to distinguish the theme of the site.

I replied to google that I had done so, and this morning was greeted with a happy "Thanks for changing that! We love you again" type email. *phew*

The page in question was lets say a 'tool' type thing which initially had nothing but a form and submit button. I placed enough content on the page explaining the purpose and use of the tool that google was happy. I'm very happy that the adsense team found my changes sufficient, and wanted to share this experience with WebmasterWorld so that you could all maybe learn something from it.

As a caveat, the changes I made included changing positioning and type of ad, which increased CTR by more than 50% which is a real bonus. Thanks for that adsense!

trev0006

4:27 am on May 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I got the same letter tonight, fixed the URL's, waiting for reply :)