Hello, how many responsive ads per page am I allowed to put? I am converting my site to a responsive one and I have 5 ads but someone said that it is allowed to have 3 only. I know it is allowed 3 banner ads and 3 text ads but what about whenever the ads are responsive? Thanks
webcentric
5:58 pm on May 14, 2015 (gmt 0)
I'd suggest you read the terms of service for Adsense. I'm lazy and I'm not putting the link here.
netmeg
7:30 pm on May 14, 2015 (gmt 0)
Three ads period. If you get approved for the mobile anchor beta test, then you can have that too, but otherwise - three ads total. It is NOT permissable to have three image ads and three text ads, but you can have three ads and three link units. You might want to consider your mobile users before you slap that many ads up though.
guggi2000
8:04 pm on May 14, 2015 (gmt 0)
Is it Adsense or AdX? Later allows 4. (But I guess you would know that if you had an AdX account)
RedBar
9:07 pm on May 14, 2015 (gmt 0)
How long are your pages? Any more than three sounds excessive to me.
webcentric
9:33 pm on May 14, 2015 (gmt 0)
You know, this is an Adsense forum so one would assume the OP means Adsense ads but, then again, to make assumptions...
Still, AFAIK, only Adsense has responsive ads so I'll make an ass out of myself and assume that we're talking about strickly Adsense ads (rather than three Adsense ads and 2 ads from other networks for example). An Adsense ad is an Adsense ad regardless of type (Text or Image) and regardless of whether it is responsive or not. You can have three of them (count 'em, 1, 2, 3) on a page. Link Units and the Mobile Anchor beta, as netmeg points out, are considered separately from the ad count.
Five Adsense ads on a page will get your account shut down. If you've been somehow able to skirt the system up to now, more power to you but please don't cry here when you're account is suspended.
If you're not willing to read a program's terms of service, you don't belong in this business. If you prefer to get your information in a public message board rather than directly from the source of authority, well, let's just say you may soon be living on swamp land in Florida.
@RedBar Again, assuming we're talking about Adsense ads. Page length is irrelevant.
virtualreality
10:04 pm on May 14, 2015 (gmt 0)
Thanks for your reply. I have 3 responsive ads now. Is it also allowed to add 3 link units separately? Can one have responsive and non-responsive link units in the same time?
webcentric
10:13 pm on May 14, 2015 (gmt 0)
There is no such thing as a responsive link unit AFAIK.
virtualreality
10:27 pm on May 14, 2015 (gmt 0)
I meant a regular link unit that will work only for larger screens and will be set to display:none on smaller?
netmeg
1:30 am on May 15, 2015 (gmt 0)
I meant a regular link unit that will work only for larger screens and will be set to display:none on smaller?
Google doesn't normally use the term "Ad Unit" to describe "Link Units" so this is a grey area in my mind. Also, that page is specifically for responsive ad code and there is no responsive ad code for link units. Having said that, you could easily load or not load link units (based on viewport size) using jQuery. This would be totally allowed because the code isn't hidden on the page if it's not needed.
netmeg
12:43 pm on May 15, 2015 (gmt 0)
I'd still ask. Just to make sure. If you can get it in writing that it's okay, that may help if a question ever comes up in the future.
Broadway
7:57 pm on May 15, 2015 (gmt 0)
I'm sure I emailed AdSense about this within the month. I asked if there was any responsive code for adlinks. They said no. I asked if I could use CSS media queries to display or not display ad links. They said no.
virtualreality
9:05 pm on May 15, 2015 (gmt 0)
If there is so much gray area regarding responsive ads is it worthy to make a site responsive and have 3 ads only while non-responsive sites can have 3 ads and 3 link units? Taking down ads sounds like cutting down profit or? How is it for you?
webcentric
10:25 pm on May 15, 2015 (gmt 0)
@virtualreality Ads are ads (responsive or not responsive) and there are link units. Link units are not ad units! You can have three link units on every page along with three ad units if you like. They are different.
You can make a page with
1 responsive ad unit + 2 non-responsive ad units + three or less link units. or 2 responsive ad units + 1 non-responsive ad unit + three or less link units. or Or 3 responsive ad units + 0 non-responsive ad units + three or less link units. or 0 responsive ad units + 3 non-responsive ad units + three or less link units.
Of course you can have less ad units and that would result in more permutations of the above but I'm not going there. You seem to be interested in more not less. And that's all for me folks...
Broadway
4:22 am on May 16, 2015 (gmt 0)
Its the horizontal ad links you can't fit on mobile screens. You can still use the vertical ones.
(I'm not saying they're equivalent performers.)
webcentric
1:53 pm on May 16, 2015 (gmt 0)
There's a post in thread linked below that demonstrates how to swap ads (will also work for link units) using jQuery. Loads specific ad or link unit code based on the viewport size. No Adsense code is hidden during this process. It is only loaded after the viewport size has been determined.
