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The whole web-service is ad-financed."
I've seen these text on <snip> and <snip>
It's questionable. What do you all think?
[edited by: Jenstar at 5:41 am (utc) on Mar. 31, 2005]
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I would not risk it.
Read the posts about canceled AdSense accounts for forums. Without writing anything, there is a chance, that somebody wants to help by clicking.
[edited by: Jenstar at 5:04 am (utc) on April 3, 2005]
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hardly anyone is clicking on the ads on my forum.
Let's see, it's a forum, they come to chat.
If you want to get people clicking put up a companion site with content.
Regarding the ad-financed text, if you do it, and you get booted from AdSense, please don't open a thread about it.
Clearly you understand that it's dodgy to add the incentive to your site. The fact that other forums have this wording on doesn't mean that they are allowed to, and it's likely that at some point they will get found out and booted.
Forums seem to have a low return. It might be better to have ads elsewhere on your site instead. It might be worth trying one of the fourpence ha'penny for 1000 page impression type services on the forum page.
