Is this against TOS?

[thecleaner]

They search for widget and arive at your page via adwords and find a prepopulated search about *red* widjets with adsense.

[sailorjwd]

Now there's a site that will likely get blocked from my adwords account. You won't see my ads on a fake content site anymore now that we have the placement reports in adwords.

Since I see a million of these sites I suspect it isn't against TOS (yet).

[celgins]

Yes, it is against the TOS and will get you banned.

From Google Adsense TOS:

Except for related Google queries, all search queries (including queries entered into an Ad search box) must originate from individual human end users inputting data directly into a Search Box (or Ad search box, as applicable) on Your Site(s).

All of this information is available and has been available in the TOS for years.

[incrediBILL]

find a prepopulated search about *red* widjets with adsense

If you're talking about pre-loading the AdSense search field it's definitely against the TOS.

[thecleaner]

im talking about the search field on my website. Not an adsense search field. My website has a search feature. When you do a search for widgets you get widgets and adsense ads are on the page with the search results.

Im not talking about that little search box google gives you to promote. Im talking about AdSense for Content.

So in this case Can I send people to a search string like below?

search.php?keyword=widjet+widjet&Submit=Search

[jimbeetle]

Not sure if I understand. You're going to use AdWords to drive traffic by bidding on "widget" and your landing page is going to be a search box with "red widgets" pre-filled.

I would think having an extra step in there would affect conversions. Why not take the visitor directly to a "red widgets" landing page?

[Rodney]

If that's all the page has is adsense ads about red widgets with no other page content, then yes, it would be against the TOS.

They search for widget and arive at your page via adwords and find a prepopulated search about *red* widjets with adsense.

Sounds like what they just clarified as a "no no" when they said that adsense publishers must also meet the Google Page Quality Guidelines:
[adsense.blogspot.com...]

Sounds like what you're describing falls under this Page Quality Guideline [adwords.google.com] (I added the bold part):

In general, build pages that provide substantial and useful information to the end-user. If your landing page consists of mostly ads or general search results (such as a directory or catalog page), you should provide as much information as you can beyond what your ad describes. For example, if your ad mentions <'Free travel information,' your landing page should feature free travel information (versus links to other sites that do).

[workingNOMAD]

Sounds like a scraper site...

[Genuine1]

What adsense wants and needs is YOUR real and unique interesting content written for your visitors. Its that simple. Everything else will eventually either earn nothing or be banned one way or another.

[JinxBoy]

What adsense wants and needs is YOUR real and unique interesting content written for your visitors. Its that simple. Everything else will eventually either earn nothing or be banned one way or another.

Let's hope so... We've been saying this for years but the amount of these is... ;)

[Garry4Ads]

Looks like thecleaner have a webpage with Google Search API which can diaply the Google Search results from Web or pre-defined websites mentioned in setting up Google Search API code. he/she also meant that, when the user see the page, the search results are pre-populated with AdSense at the top/sides/bottom of the search results.

As per Google TOS, this is a Violation.