"Ads by Google" line missing from ads

Competitor's ads missing the disclaimer

[11364guy]

My competitor (who a certain well known metrics measuring entity claims they are a top 5000 site reaching 1.2 million people)has adsense ads but the "Ads by Google" disclaimer is absent.

Do they allow this for major players?

I think they have some kind of hack. I dont want to tattletale on them but I think it confuses the visitors and artificially boost CTR would like the same deal if it's legit.

So What -- the advertisers we share in common are getting their adwords budgets deflated.

I am confused.

Thanks

[buckworks]

When you're seeing this happen, notice whether the ads are static or animated. That will make a difference to whether Google inserts the "Ads by Google" line or not.

[11364guy]

No friend - they are not animated ads; they change (as many ads sense ads)when the page is refreshed. but it's a wee bit unusual that you never see the disclaimer.

My friends 5 million page view per week site has the disclaimer. Ach Surely something stirs below

[11364guy]

It's gotta be a style sheer or a server goodie - you can see some black pixels strug along like a skinny worm or a speck uf muck on the monitor and when you click on them the see the disclaimer. That's not Cricket, old boy.

[swa66]

All publishers, even those not competing with those cheating the system benefit from the cheaters getting exposed and/or banned from Adsense. It doesn't matter that they are competitors or not: report them as they are a danger to the program itself, a risk that the best advertisers that remain will pack up and we'll get stuck with ever more sleazy advertisers.

[netmeg]

If they're a top 5000 site with that many pageviews, it's entirely possible that they're a premium publisher. They have different rules.

[netchicken1]

Actually I was wondering about that topic as well.

There is an advert on my site in a 200x200 box(?) that is, I think an image, made to look like 2 text adverts. So its got a bg color, is a 1 col 2 row table with an advert in each cell.

Missing from this image is any indication that it is a google advert. I even checked my code in case my adverts had been somehow hijacked. But it looks legit.

I didn't check where it went but it was puzzling ...

OK found it again, and they are doubleclick adverts. Adverts are totally off topic, terrorism police training on a joke and humor page.

[11364guy]

Can somebody ask Jensense about this? I know you guys have all kinds of connections.

[wanderingmind]

I have seen Adsense image ads without the 'ads by google' on my own site, and several small sites also in the past.

For certain kinds of ads, they remove the Ads by Google line, I think. Sometimes it gets confusing, as some ads really look like part of the site and you tend to click without thinking. Smart.

[netmeg]

You can go ask Jen; she has a blog and she's on twitter.

Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

[swa66]

I think Google serves the doubleclick ads without the "ads by google", there's a difference between the publisher hiding part of the iframe and google not serving it to start with.

[11364guy]

Something I forgot to mention -- I cut and pasted the code and loaded it in a browser (did not click on any ads I know what you're thinking) and the disclaimer showed.

Therefore I answered my own question - black hat activity from a publicly traded corporation. How do you like that?

[ken_b]

... black hat ...

Maybe they're a premium publisher. Premium publishers are often allowed to do stuff that regular publishers are not.