google related links can we click it

[sandyweb]

is it ok to click on google related links on your own site. i am not talking about adsense link units. i am talking about this [google.com...] pls tell if we can click on it or not.

[edited by: jatar_k at 4:25 pm (utc) on Sep. 30, 2006]
[edit reason] no urls thanks [/edit]

[trannack]

You are not allowed to post domain names here. Also can't see what you are talking about.

[jimbeetle]

Can you click on them? They aren't part of the Adsense program, so sure, click away.

[ann]

Why would you want to use them? They earn no money for you like having ad units on with an account of course.

Ann

[david_uk]

I tried them thinking that they might be OK instead of PSA's on the very rare occasion that I get PSA's. All it showed was a search box!

[Tropical Island]

If Google show an ad related to one of their products on your site and someone clicks it you get paid (as I understand it).

You are therefore enriching yourself by clicking them and so I would say that you can not click them. It's just like any other ad.

[jimbeetle]

No, these aren't ads, it's Google's "Related Links" thinga-ma-bobbies.

They aren't part of Adsense, nobody is paid by the click for them, you don't have to run Adsense to use them, anybody could put them on a site.

[Tropical Island]

Oh, OK.