Question from newbie

[ou812]

Not a professional at this and never will be. I have adsense on one site and I earn in the "don't weaste our time and get off this forum" arena. :-)

I do have a quick question. I get news leads from a site that apparently knows a lot more about XML than I do and I have noticed this site has gradually been changing their adsense ads to where they now look similar to a single link in a long list of new stories links. The "ads by Google" is gone, as is the "advertise on this site" below each single link.

Looking at the page source code, it looks pretty normal except for an added " google_alternate_ad_url = "http://thesiteinquestion.com/google_adsense_script.html";

Have I missed something? Everything I have seen in the G rules and your discussions say this can not be done.

[Pengi]

Could the site be big enough and popular enough to have acheived premium publisher status?

[FortySomething]

I guess it's possible they are a premium publisher and different rules may apply. But I have to admit that disguising the ads as text links is certainly wrong if you aren't a premium publisher. For all I know, it might be also wrong for premium pubs too.

[ou812]

I am not familiar enough with the whole premier publisher concept to answer your question. The site main page has a page rank of 4 so I can't imagine it is that popular. But who knows.