Will this violate TOS

Click Here to View Our Products

[4crests]

So, on the top of many of my pages I have had a "CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR PRODUCTS" for years now. The main content to catch my google searchers is below. When they click on the "CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR PRODUCTS", it is a hyperlink to my main product page, as our site is primarily a Product Store, and wasn't made for Adsense.

Now, I am adding Adsense to my site.

My question is this. If I stick Adsense code above or below this line of text, will it be a violation of the TOS?

Will Google think I'm saying CLICK HERE and trying to get people to click on the Adsense Ads, even though it's really just a hyperlink to my main page?

I realize this wouldn't be intentional, but Gooogle might not realize that. Do I need to place the ADS a certain distance from the hyperlink to my main page?

[hunderdown]

If I were you, I'd email AdSense support, describe the situation as you've done here, perhaps with the URL of a sample page, and ask for a ruling.

[ken_b]

If I recall right the current Adsense TOS or Policies specifically mentions not having "Click Here" anywhere on your site.

Which seems a little strange, and perhaps a bit of a stretch, but .... check the TOS for sure.

[ken_b]

Here's the wording I was thinking of...

... your site cannot contain phrases such as "click here," ...

From the Adsense Program Policies in the Incentives paragraph at:

[google.com...]

[larryhatch]

Why don't you simply reword the anchor text?
Leave out "click here" (not so good anyway) and have something like "See our fine products" - Larry

[nanotopia]

I believe the Google Adsense ToS refers to text that suggests to the user that they click on an Adsense ad. As long as the text doesn't refer to their ads, or doesn't create confusion (meaning you didn't mean for it to suggest that, but it does), then you should be okay. As always, you can contact Google and just ask them.

[4crests]

NANOTOPIA, that's about what I thought. But, just to be safe, over the last couple weeks I have been changing them all to "VIEW OUR PRODUCTS", like larryhatch said above.

The problem is that I added many of them to the store automatically, so the adsense code went onto thousands of my pages at once. Now I have to weed through them and change them all one by one because the "CLICK HERE" wasn't in a place I can add or delete automatcially. It's kind of hard to explain. Let me just say it's a YAHOO STORE, so things aren't as easy as they could be with a normal site to change them all.

[cagey1]

I believe the Google Adsense ToS refers to text that suggests to the user that they click on an Adsense ad

We can infer whatever we want, but, as ken_b points out, the ToS clearly states that your site cannot contain phrases such as "click here,"

It does not say anything about "near" or "close to" or "refering to" Adsense ads.

[4crests]

kind of makes it difficult to push your products and your adsense on the same page

[david_uk]

We can infer whatever we want, but, as ken_b points out, the ToS clearly states that your site cannot contain phrases such as "click here,"

It does not say anything about "near" or "close to" or "refering to" Adsense ads.

I think Adsense will have a degree of common sense in how "Click here" is used. They don't want any suggestion that the visitor should click the ads, but most sites have the words "Click here" used legitimately, and not in the context of adverts. I've got hyperlinks such as "Click here to view the site terms & conditions" - nowhere near adsense banners and a legitimate use of the phrase.

I'd suggest that a "Click here" above or below ads is going to be deemed as an inducement, but the only people that can tell you is adsense.

[marcel]

We can infer whatever we want, but, as ken_b points out, the ToS clearly states that your site cannot contain phrases such as "click here,"

It does not say anything about "near" or "close to" or "refering to" Adsense ads.

Web pages may not include incentives of any kind for users to click on ads. This includes encouraging users to click on the ads or to visit the advertisers' sites as well as drawing any undue attention to the ads. This activity is strictly prohibited in order to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs. For example, your site cannot contain phrases such as "click here," "support us," "visit these links," or other similar language that could apply to any ad, regardless of content.

Well, it definitely refers to ads, but it doesn't exactly specify Ads by Google. I'd just email google support and ask them to look at your web page.