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Is it ok ? 4link text adblock directly after related articles block ?

         

studee

6:36 am on Sep 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

I am using related articles on all my pages directly after the article text ends, i want to put adsense 4textlink block below my 5 related article block , can i do that ? is it allowed ?

or it can come under policy violation !

can some one throw some light on it !,

Dee

ecmedia

1:43 pm on Sep 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

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It would be a violation of TOS if you make it appear that ads are related articles.

A safer approach will be add additional text title that says "Advertisements" and then put the text links.

Lame_Wolf

11:41 pm on Sep 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

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You really have to ask yourself *why* you would want to do that.

If it is because you have nowhere else to put the code, then make sure there is a really big space between them - although even this could be seen as a violation of the TOS.

If it is because you are hoping to get a few extra clicks by tricking the user, then you know you are doing wrong, and should be avoided.

On a site that I used to run, we had a "related links" in a box and labelled as such. Those were internal links to the site.
To the left of that, we had another box, but contained adsense.
It was clear to all that they were seperate.

I personally would avoid having it below if you value your adsense account.

studee

2:50 am on Sep 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

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okay its not that i want extra click, i coded the related article block myself it fetches 100% accurate articles internal articles, i just want to have a ad block after the text article ends , may be i can shift adsense up and related articles down and mark adsense as sponsored links .

so its like

text

adsense

related articles

comment area

for a new website i don't want to take chance with adsense i just asked to have a view from experienced users . ;)

farmboy

1:12 pm on Sep 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

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so its like

text

adsense

related articles

comment area

I see no problem with that arrangement even if you move the AdSense below the related articles. You just want to be sure the related articles section does not mimic the AdSense ads. It should be easy to distinguish the two in appearance for the casual visitor.

FarmBoy