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"No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant"
I've been writing articles, and placing google ads on these pages, and even buying some clicks going to these articles. Now, or course my purpose is to make money off these pages with google adsense - why else should i do it? But the articles do contain good and relevant information for those who come. In fact the more i think about it, I also have a hobby talk radio page, that provides tons of good info, but to be honest, if I didn't get the google adsense revenue I might not do it? What do you guys think? What is your take on this? Am I over-reacting, or am I clearly breeching the process here?
ncw164x
Your right, must be how lawyers think, instead of writing plain language they leave it open ended
good luck with your site
ncw164x
It seems to me, that this policy of google's is a bit open to interpretation....
Yes, because there's no substitute for human judgment in borderline cases. Sometimes the "sniff test" works better than arbitrarily formulas.
Do you think they put this policy in, so they could basically weed out those typed of pages you see that have 10's and hundreds of banner ads, one after the other - and junky pages like that?
Yes, along with sites that have little content except for AdSense ads.
MQ
I wouldn't be too concerned. If this part of the TOS were actually enforced, 90% of the network, including many of the best content-rich sites would be knocked out.
That simply isn't true. Content-rich sites aren't designed for the purpose of displaying ads; the ads are a way to monetize the content.
To use an analogy, the difference between a content site that displays ads and a site that's "designed for the purpose of displaying ads" is like the difference between a newspaper and a weekly shopper. (In the U.S., one way to distinguish between "content" publications and "advertising" publications is to see whether the publication has second-class mailing privileges. There's no equivalent of this on the Web, but it doesn't take a genius to distinguish between a site that displays ads to exist and one that exists to display ads.)
No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant
The statement is ambiguous and totally meaningless. Google has no way of knowing the "purpose" of your page. It's subjective to whoever build the page.
Google isn't a court of law, and Google's QC team doesn't need to prove motive. The "sniff test" is all that's required.
Of course google is now sending out booklets telling us how to improve our site. [webmasterworld.com...]
I hope Adsense changes it ways in the future.
With Adsense it appears that 1/2 the rules are not defined specifically enough to know when you are adhering to them and when not. That goes for this thread as well as the Keywords thread.
It isn't in Google's interests to have extremely specific rules, for several reasons:
1) Google wants publishers to focus on creating content, not on gaming the system.
2) Rules, automated quality checks, human interpretations of what's acceptable, etc. evolve over time, partly as the AdSense team gains more experience and partly in response to new scams.
3) What might be acceptable on a clearly legitimate site could very well be questionable on a site that a spam-scoring algorithm has identified as being suspicious. In other words, if conrads-biblical-concordance.com has a high density of the keyword "Jesus" on a page, that's less likely to raise eyebrows than a high density of "Viagra" in random filler text at impotence-drug-keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.com.
The reason that we come to this forum is to learn how to game the system, to get better positions in the serps, not to learn how to write copy.
With regards to "Google wants publishers to focus on creating content", the main topic of conversation at the last pubcon was not building more pages of content but....well if you was there you would know the answer.
There always will be spammy type sites, which bend all the rules, make a lot of money and seem to be getting away with it, google can't catch all of them
rightliner
In answer to you question about adding some of your own links to your pages, yes add the links, visitors can become blind to adverts over a period in time
ncw164x
As you've probably gathered from this thread, your site is technically in violation of the TOS, but you still have no cause for concern.
Google has several terms that are so broadly worded that they would allow them to boot almost any site. But they will not choose to enforce the "made for AdSense" part of the TOS against a quality content-oriented site, as it would seriously damage their network.
MQ
The reason that we come to this forum is to learn how to game the system, to get better positions in the serps, not to learn how to write copy.
So what? That doesn't mean Google should modify its rules for the convenience of Webmaster World members.
