Adsense and Using Other Adverts

Whats allowed and whats not

[dhaliwal]

Can anyone suggest, the advert providers we can use along with adsense.

I mean is intellitext and the text ads from adsonar are acceptable

I saw a big website using both ad-hearus and adsense on one page? is it acceptable as ad-hearus is also a contextual ad service.

Regards
Dhaliwal

[tebrino]

It's against TOS to use any type of ads similar to AdSense. Graphic ads of all types are allowed, even popups (with limit of 5 pops per session)

[blairsp]

No on both counts. Intellitext also ban you from using other contextual ads at the same time. So you woudl be breakign BOTH TOS. Adsonar on the other hand WILL allow you to use "competing" ads but clearly adsense won't-so it doesn't matter.

[scottct1]

This is no longer true, go read googles TOS, I can find any mention of the ban on other competing contextual advertisors.

Also I have talked to IntelliTXT about this and they have no problem with using it and Google Adsense on the same page, in fact I was told over 60% of thier sites have both.

[dhaliwal]

thanks for your comments.
the best will be to talk to adsense.

but i had one trouble also, i was thinking of loading some other contextual player as second ad unit, as most of the times adsense isn't showing of the site pages.

[blairsp]

Also I have talked to IntelliTXT about this and they have no problem with using it and Google Adsense on the same page, in fact I was told over 60% of thier sites have both.

You must have a different contract from me. Mine's clearly states that NO other contextual advertiser may be shown on the same page (doesn't even specify at the same time)

[blairsp]

This is no longer true, go read googles TOS, I can find any mention of the ban on other competing contextual advertisors.

What is your interpretation of section two which reads?:
......"If You have elected to receive content-based Ads, You further agree not to display on any Results Page any non-Google content-targeted advertisement(s)."

[blairsp]

and also:
"We do not permit Google ads or search boxes accessing Google search services to be published on web pages that also contain what could be considered competing ads or services. This would include ads that mimic Google ads or otherwise appear to be associated with Google on your site. If you have elected to receive content-based Google ads, this would also include all other content-targeted ads."

[dhaliwal]

Instead of answers
I am running into more confusion,
I am sorry for being able to understand, but i can't understand what the terms are at the moment.

[dhaliwal]

now got it blair
but i see increasing no. of people using other sources as well.
Maybe they have special permission or they are voilating.

[alika]

They are violating.

[MikeNoLastName]

To start with we need to be careful in the context where they appear to referring to their SEARCH RESULTS pages, rather than YOUR pages.
However, in all of these examples "content-targeted advertisement" is overly broad and easily misconstrued. It doesn't say "algorithm generated content targeted", meaning someone's GENERATED results. It is broad enough to mean "you or another person manually matched up this ad with this page". If this is read literally, as many of you are saying, it means we cannot place even a graphical banner for blue widgets, either for our own pages, or for which we previously contracted with the individual company before we even started with Google, on a page which even mentions blue widgets. Notice it says "any" and it doesn't say "text advertisements". This could almost imply any link to another related page on your or someone elses site which describes the "history of blue widgets" if read literally. And thereby the very content which draws readers to your page cannot be related in any way, to provide clicks to other ads than G! So basically all YOU could then display are your own Public Service type ads or possibly ads about green-doohickies in which noone who came to your page is even remotely interested.
However this cannot be the case since the rep we spoke to RECOMMENDED we place G ad units on our pages below where we already had many paying links and graphic/text ads which we had sold ourselves individually and relating to the same topic.
So either they've realized this language is bogus and changed it or someone has mis-interpretted what they MEANT, which should have said something more like: "any similar deals from our search engine competitor's". ;-)

[scottct1]

"We do not permit Google ads or search boxes accessing Google search services to be published on web pages that also contain what could be considered competing ads or services. This would include ads that mimic Google ads or otherwise appear to be associated with Google on your site. If you have elected to receive content-based Google ads, this would also include all other content-targeted ads."

To me that means I can not put ads which look like Google Ads.

It says nothing about having some words underlined like IntelliTxt as that does not momic google ads or appear to be associated with Google.

I think it says it kind of clearly actually.

[blairsp]

contain what could be considered competing ads or services.

So is intellitext not a competitor or competing ad then?

[MikeNoLastName]

>>"contain what could be considered competing ads or services"

Hmm, I don't know... WHO does G consider competitors?

Or is it easier to ask "who DOESN'T G consider competitors... ;-)

On the other hand... ANY other ad on the page would be considered "competing"... for ad space, eyeballs, etc.

Just TOO vague