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Why don't you just read the TOS, in which it says that you are not allowed to draw any kind of attention to your ads.
If that's not clear enough, try it and I'm waiting for the next "I got banned but didn't do anything wrong, really!" post here.
Labeling Ads
Publishers may not label the ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements." This includes any text directly above our ads that could be confused with, or attempt to be associated with Google ads.
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Publishers may not label the ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements." This includes any text directly above our ads that could be confused with, or attempt to be associated with Google ads.
I've already decided to word it carefully to avoid getting banned, but that's where I'm saying the area is a little vague. It's not as black and white as you are saying, and I think that's where some people may get into trouble. I've decided to leave this out altogether, as anybody should be able to figure it out on their own.
"Please follow the links for some great information," is that going to get me banned? I'm really talking about the hyperlinks on my site, but since there are Google ads, people may "inadvertently" click on one of their links,
People have been banned for encouraging users to click on an ad, even when the encouragement was on a completely different site.
Stay within the rules, don't try to be clever, the negatives far outweigh any benefit.
I doubt this scheme will benefit you anyway because the bogus clicks will only be smartpriced by the Google algo to be worth as close to zero as they can get. Just stay within the rules, you have nothing to gain and much to lose.
What part of that simple 'do not' statement from Google don't you understand?
It does.t matter WHERE ON THE PAGE you put the ad...the rule does not change.
Ann
"You will find some awesome links on this page."
It will not work and it's against TOS.
I just spent a week to improve the navigation system on my sites.
The target was to make the navigation more easy for the visitors, that they visit more pages on my sites.
I dreamed from 10 to 20% more pageviews per visitor, but all the effort is not visible in the statistic.
[edited by: jetteroheller at 5:15 am (utc) on May 10, 2006]
If you can put a paragraph of text above it and the rest below it all the better.
Forget about all the words, incentives and tricks. You don't need them, the placement alone will do it.
I went from $75 a day to $225 a day, overnight!
Look at the Adsense heat map, it works!
If I just say, "Please follow the links for some great information," is that going to get me banned? I'm really talking about the hyperlinks on my site, but since there are Google ads, people may "inadvertently" click on one of their links, even though those are not the links I am referring to.
TOS arguments aside, how exactly would that help with normal links anyway - let alone ads?
Visitors to sites KNOW what links are, unless the style of the links is blended so that you don't know that portions of the text are hyperlinks. Site navigation (including hyperlinks) should be designed to be natural and easy to use for the visitor. For example links to other sites or additional information should be placed within the text so that visitors naturally click them at the appropriate point if that's what you want them to do. Therefore you don't need to say on the page that if you click the links you get more information.
It's already been said that you can't encourage visitors to click on the ads in any way, shape or form on the page itself, or any other page of the site. IE, you can't put a link on an ad free page saying "Click on the ads on this page" etc.
Quite honestly I wouldn't bother putting anything like this on a page. I try and work in the hyperlinks to additional info or sources logically, and the ads are obviously ads and can't be labeled any other way than as posted earlier. From the Google point of view, it's completely black and white.
I decided to remove these words from my site after reviewing the TOS. The words were never put there to call attention to ads -- I NEVER EVEN HAD ANY ADS ON THE SITE when I asked this question!
Comments such as what part of the simple "No," don't you understand are extremely rude, and uncalled for.
But thank you to those with the polite replies!
