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Just now when I logged in I got a new "Google AdSenseTM Online Standard Terms and Conditions" page from AdSense
I ask this because there are some seo concerns with repeating the same link text on hundreds of pages ad nauseum. It would be nice to simply make it a gif text.
Maybe ASA was outsourced to India also?
LOL
Or maybe ASA is being replaced by a bot. RoboASA
I ask this because there are some seo concerns with repeating the same link text on hundreds of pages ad nauseum. It would be nice to simply make it a gif text.
Sure. Then you will recieve a threatening email warning you that you haven't put up your Google privacy policy, because their automated quality control systems couldn't spider it.
[edited by: Scurramunga at 10:21 pm (utc) on Feb. 27, 2008]
They know that for a long time already!
Absolutely IMO, any hint of something negative, confusing, or different is a bad idea. "Don't Make Me Think"
Its a little early to start worrying, but I wonder how G will confirm compliance? Would it be a facet of spidering, or limited to human-eyes reveiew?
They'll pick out someone here at WW who is bad-mouthing Google but not making much money for Google and shut down their account for non-compliance. That person will post about it and scare everyone else into submission.
I ask this because there are some seo concerns with repeating the same link text on hundreds of pages ad nauseum.
There are sites that have the same copyright notice, "About" links, etc. on the bottom of each of thousands of pages. Adding a "Privacy" link shouldn't create any problems.
FarmBoy
Strangely the entire text of the T+C was in a different language (not English) but the options below were in English, as are my account settings. There was no otpion to change the text to English.
I am pleased ww has once again allowed me a better insight into what I agreed to.
Not everybody enters a Web site through the home page. If the purpose of the requirement is to cover Google's keester, then it obviously makes sense to have a "Privacy Policy" link from every page.
Indeed. But is it a requirement of the new TOS? I would rather not have to implement this on 1,000 static html pages. So the questions remains, have Google specified that this must be the case?
There are sites that have the same copyright notice, "About" links, etc. on the bottom of each of thousands of pages. Adding a "Privacy" link shouldn't create any problems.
You haven't been 950'd, have you?
Too many sites with footers have been killed in the last year. Adding new footer links is treated differently by Google than tolerating existing ones. Go ahead and add new footer links to a 1,000-page site and see what happens.
1,000 new links to any new page, especially thin ones, makes Google very suspicious. Frankly, Google hasn't said it will overlook Privacy pages when it tries to assassinate sites with a 950 penalty.
Privacy notices are a complete waste of time. They don't prove anything and they don't guarantee the site's owners are going to abide by them. They're not self-regulating. I've never had a privacy policy page on any of my sites in the last ten years. Frankly, it hasn't stopping millions of visitors from viewing millions of pages.
When was the last time I looked at a site's privacy policy before using it? Never.
p/g
Too many sites with footers have been killed in the last year. Adding new footer links is treated differently by Google than tolerating existing ones. Go ahead and add new footer links to a 1,000-page site and see what happens.
I do imagine that thousands - no, make it tens of thousands of sites will be adding a "privacy policy" link to their footers in the very near future. If Google 950's even a small fraction of them, Google's AdSense inventory will fall drastically. I don't think it'll take long for their PhD guys to notice the correlation (not that PhD is required for connecting the dots in this case).
Too many sites with footers have been killed in the last year. Adding new footer links is treated differently by Google than tolerating existing ones. Go ahead and add new footer links to a 1,000-page site and see what happens.
So? Use 'rel="nofollow" in the link code.
...if you don't accept by May 25, that you won't be "able to login to adsense and make changes to your account", NOT necessarily that you won't be able to still be an adsense publisher...
Further down on the page is the following:
Note: If you choose not to accept these Terms and Conditions, you will not be able to continue using AdSense. You can resume access by logging in and accepting these Terms and Conditions by May 25, 2008
