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I know something unique or secrets that will help people to save money and time. I charge people for this information in office as a business. If I create a website to share this information for free just to attract traffics and make profit from Adsense, am I consider creating a website mainly for Adsense? Am I violate the TOS?
I think such a site wouldn't violate TOS, if Google could see that it was promoting your brick-and-mortar business. If it was obvious that the only way your site could benefit you was for readers to click your ads, then I think they would have a case.
I've had great success writing articles about what I do as a way to attract clients. My idea was that if lots of people read my articles, maybe sometimes one would follow up with an inquiry, and I'd get a contract. It worked so well that I have to turn away clients now.
But over the years (yes, it took years, but I think if I'd had webmasterworld's help from the start, it wouldn't have taken nearly so long), my traffic has grown to a hundred thousand hits a month, and I've found that I can earn quite a bit from adsense on articles I wrote for this other purpose.
Instead, I believe their point is that you should not create a site where a user might say, "Hey, I don't see anything useful here that a real user might care about except ads." A page of nonsense words or phrases, for example, or one where the text is very difficult to read or one where the non-Adsense content is only found by scrolling down, etc.
If I purposely create a website to make profit from Adsense then am I violate the TOS?
I think the main question is, could You sell ads on the site direct?
When You write about blue widgets, could You call a producer of blue widgets and tell him, that You write some pages about blue widgets and that he could put ads on this pages.
Every free newspaper lives from advertising.
The question is only the quality.
Is the quality high enough, that the owner could sell ads to humans, not only to the AdSense bot.
I think the main question is, could You sell ads on the site direct?
The bottom line is that AdSense cannot look into your head and know why you created any given page or site. All they can do is look at it and see if has any merit according to the (very low) standards they set. If the page has intrinsic value measured by pretty much any standard, which it sounds like yours will, then you should be fine.
P.S. If you're already basing a business on this, I would suggest (a) using this site to promote yourself and build your core business, or (b) not publishing the information at all. IMO growing your business has much more potential than running AdSense ads.
