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I started using Adsense last week on my website and began reading your posts 5 days ago. You guys post a lot of useful information and this is very helpful (once I figured out the acronyms you were using!). The content of my site is in French (I am a French Canadian) and I get about 500 visits every day. For the last 3 years, I used ads from a French company (CLICK-FR) but only got about 10$ a month from the click on the banners. Before removing these old and ugly banners completely from my site, I wanted to try Adsense for a couple of months.
My concern/question is the following: In the Adsense policies, the following is written:
"Competitive Ads and Services
We do not permit Google ads or search boxes accessing Google search services to be published on web pages that also contain what could be considered competing ads or services. This would include ads that mimic Google ads or otherwise appear to be associated with Google on your site. If you have elected to receive content-based Google ads, this would also include all other content-targeted ads. If you have elected to receive Google search services, this would include other search services on the same site and non-Google query-targeted ads. We do allow affiliate or limited-text links."
Does this mean I have to remove the CLICK-FR banners on the pages containing Adsense ads or can I keep both?
Thanks.
If you want to play it safe, you can contact Google about it directly.
However, they do allow banner ads from networks like Commission Junction, and Amazon.com, so I don't think that there should be any problem with this other company.
My advice is to try adsense ads and dump the other ones.
When you tried adsense for a month and don't like it you only lost $10 without having too many ads on a page.
