Site's OWN Text Based Ads Allowed

Oncw with adsense, other text-based allowed. What if they are your OWN ads

[thvi]

We want to run our own text-based ads. We would serve the content from our existing advertiser base.

Would we be alowed to do this if we have run AdSense, too?

Put another way:

What are the limitations for running other text-based ads when you are with AdSense? (If so, please could you say where are these rules are defined?)

If there ARE limitations, do they apply to your own advertising? Would you be prohibited from running your OWN self-produced text-based ads on your site?

Many thanks,

thvi

[Longhaired Genius]

I run my own text-based ads and it never occurred to me that it might be a problem. My ads are in a different font and a different size from Google adsense, They have "Ads by Mysite" at the top and a line top and bottom to separate them from adsense. I haven't communicated with Google about them 'cos it my site and my business. I can't see how they could object.

[ncw164x]

Try reading "Competitive Ads and Services" on the page below

[google.com...]

[Longhaired Genius]

"We do allow affiliate or limited-text links."

Looks like we are in the clear.

[thvi]

Hello ncw164x and Longhaired Genius,

Thanks for your replies. LHG, that line seems ambiguous to me. In the same paragraph you cited it also says they do not permit any other content-targeted ads.

I wonder if that means even our own self-created ads?

What does limited-text ads mean?

thvi

[Pedent]

I think "content-targeted" means automatically targeted in a similar way to AdSense, i.e. ads from networks in direct competition with AdSense. Ads manually targeted to the content should be fine.

What might be an issue is ads that mimic the look and feel of AdSense. As long as your own ads don't look like AdSense ads then they should be okay.

If in doubt, though, e-mail AdSense support for an all-clear.

[thvi]

Thanks for your reply Pedent. Anyone else running in-house text ads and AdSense?

Thanks,

thvi

[elguapo]

We are running our own text ads; been doing it before joining G's adsense back when the program started. No problem with it

[thvi]

Hello elguapo,

Thanks a lot for your reply! Please could you describe the layout you use? How similar, if at all, are they to AdSense. We were thinking of marking the lower part with:

Ads from Oursite...

but basically using a similar layout.

How do you handle this?

Thanks!

thvi

[elguapo]

Layout is totally different from adsense - diff font, bigger font, different color.

[Longhaired Genius]

I use a similar layout but without the boxes. After all, what is the layout? Headline, blurb, url, pretty basic. I did think about adding the url but decided I would take advantage of Google's market-research. I assume they do it because it gives better results. I don't link the whole thing (I hate that) just the headline and the url.

[FromRocky]

Read msg #10 for the best advice, which I can think of. This is applied to any contextual ads beside AdSense including your own.
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