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Is there any prohibition on me using an adsense block as a footer to my own posts in the forum, assuming I do not break the "3 ad units per page" rule.
The forum pages contain no other text based advertising (just a couple of affiliate links).
The ads seem to pick up something close to the discussion topic OK much of the time (or if not, they serve as PSAs).
I checked through the AdSense rules and I couldn't see any prohibition on this, but did I miss something?
Note that I'm NOT talking about using MY adsense code as a footer in someone else's forums or on someone else's webpage. These are MY posts in MY forums on MY website.
"Up to three ad units may be displayed on each Web site page, but no ad unit shall contain any advertisement in common with any other ad unit. Serving two or more identical ads on a single page constitutes double-serving, which Google does not support."
Since google is the one who determines what ads are shown, i can only assume they mean the ad unit size. I may be wrong.
What if 10 users display 10 Adsense units in their signature (all on same page). Then youre not breking anything because YOU are only displaying your own Adsense block. - Who is now breaking anything? Forum owner maybe?
The other users, because they don't own the forum, and you can display AdSense only on sites you yourself own.
The only issue im not clear on, is that i think you can display 3 ad units, but i think they have to be different sizes.
(snip)Since google is the one who determines what ads are shown, i can only assume they mean the ad unit size. I may be wrong.
As far as I know, the size of the ad unit has nothing to do with the ads that appear on it. If Google is on the ball, different ads will appear in each unit, even if all the units are the same size. Google isn't always on the ball, but that's their problem, not yours.
I'm not sure why Google has that in the TOS when they control which ads are shown. Maybe they're covering their butts in case they introduce an ad-choosing feature in the future...?
What if 10 users display 10 Adsense units in their signature (all on same page). Then youre not breking anything because YOU are only displaying your own Adsense block. - Who is now breaking anything? Forum owner maybe?
In that example, the users [b]and[/i] the forum owner are breaking the TOS:
1) The users are breaking the TOS because they've posted their ad code on a site they don't own or control; and...
2) The forum owner is breaking the TOS for running 10 ad units on a page that he does own or control.
Naturally, there would be plenty of finger-pointing when the users' and forum owner's AdSense accounts were disabled, and we can be sure that none of the offenders would admit responsibility for what they'd done.
I recomend you try a 160*600 sidebar ( basically the way google displays the ads on their site), its getting better results for me and I have tried it all on my forum.
