Ads shut down on site with Adsense in the domain

[knights1]

I have a site with the word adsense in the domain and I recently got an email from [e-mail] That basically said that it was against Adsense policies to have Adsense in the domain of your website, and so they have stopped running ads on that site. However, two days later and there are still ads on the site? Was this just a SPAM email from someone other than Google, or have they just not got around to stopping ads on the site?

Derek

[Visit Thailand]

Have you emailed G about it?

[europeforvisitors]

I'm surprised they haven't closed your account down altogether, since Google AdSense is a trademark. See "Guidelines for Third Party Use of Google's Trademarks" at:

[google.com...]

[knights1]

No i haven't e-mailed them back. They told me they would not be shutting down my account.

Derek

[novice]

I wonder if their next move will be to not allow advertisers to use the word "AdSense" in AdWords ads? Or, even as a keyword.

[me134]

Is having

www.iloveadsense.com

really that much different from other peoples

www.mysite.com/iloveadsense/

From reading their permissions, it seems more important how you use in the text on the page. Having the trademark information, not using their logo, not messing up their name like Googlyoggly, things like that. Could you perhaps cut and paste the e-mail they sent you?

Thx

[novice]

Is having
www.iloveadsense.com

really that much different from other peoples

www.mysite.com/iloveadsense/

Google does not even own www.AdSense.com

I think what they are doing is preventing people from trying to capitalize on their trademark use of the word "AdSense"

Other than that, if you wanted to open up "AdSense Deli"
you certainly are free to register www.AdSenseDeli.com for your online menu.

[knights1]

I don't believe WebmasterWorld TOS allow me to post e-mails from Google.

Derek

[cws3di]

You are right, knights1, WW terms specifically prohibit posting e-mail text.

If you trust that the e-mail really came from G:

However, two days later and there are still ads on the site?

and they have been generous enough not to shut down your account, then it might behoove YOU to take those ads off the site they specified.

Why leave them running and expect G to do something about it? Why not show good faith and remove them yourself, before your entire account gets banned?
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[Staffa]

"Was this just a SPAM email from someone other than Google,"

Have you ckeched the email header to see where it really comes from?

[wrgvt]

It could be that Google has discovered that you're not the only site using AdSense as part of the URL and they've decided to implement an algorithm to automatically disable ads or run PSAs on any site that does this. Your site is left as a test run, and your ads will eventually be disabled. Then they'll decide whether to ban you (and all the web site you own).

[webdreamer]

Do yourself and obey the mighty G.

Unless you want to work for the lesser mighty Y.

[knights1]

the e-mai lcame from [e-mail]

Derek

[aeiouy]

Did they ask you to take the ads down or tell you they were shutting them down immediately or at some time in the future.

Other people have gotten the same notices and they are real.

I suggest you remove the ads from your site, lest you jeopardize your adsense account.

[trader]

It's odd conicidence that I was looking at adsensechat dot com (run by Joel Comm) a few min before coming here and noticed Adsense ads no longer appear anywhere on their pages as far as I could see. It seems they have been replaced by other venues.

After reading this thread am wondering if the fact G appears to be cracking down on TM violation domains could be a reason for that?

[aeiouy]

Problem is how credible is an adsense domain if they don't have adsense ads on it?

[incrediBILL]

Had to go look - Joel without AdSense on his site was quite amusing

[EricGiguere]

It takes a day or two for the ads to stop showing. I know, because I received the same message for one of my domains (only it had "Google" in it, not "AdSense"). Right now the ads have stopped, so I'm showing some AdSense-like text ads I whipped up instead. Meanwhile, I've faxed in a permission request to let me display AdSense ads on that site. If they don't want me to, I'll have to decide if I want to switch to using an alternate domain or just live without the AdSense ads. Although given the nature of the site, it would be funny to not display ads on it.

And no, Google doesn't terminate your account for this. They could -- after all, the TOS let them shut it down for any reason -- but obviously they're choosing not to.

C'est la vie.