adsense on downloading page!

Is it allowed?

[chikung]

Hello,

I have a site where in one section, I provide lot of Free/Trial/Demo versions of softwares. I have decorated each page for a single software with information, snap shots and highlights of the softwares, even the end results with photographs.

At the end, I provide the link to download that perticular software.

Now the question is, I have pasted adsense code (2 units)on the same page. Is is allowed? Please let me know if it is against TOC I will remove it immediately.

[Rodney]

Yes, I *think* it is against the terms of service due to the lack of content on that page.

If you really want to know the answer though, only the Adsense team can tell you for sure. Why not drop them an email to find out directly from the source?

[Atomic]

If you have nothing but links then it might be questionable. If you added some descriptions of the programs and perhaps reviews and comments then I don't see why it wouldn't be OK. I see you used the word "information" so perhaps you are already doing exactly what I describe.

[Mauricio]

I believe that almost everything is allowed.

Do you think the part-time-one-man-Adsense-quality-team can stop and see small things like this?

[trillianjedi]

I believe that almost everything is allowed.

Hmmm.... I see the start of a "Just got banned from AdSense" thread right there ;-)

I'm sure this is against the TOS. As suggested, an email to the AdSense team will get the authoritative answer - they usually reply pretty quickly too in my experience.

TJ

[itloc]

why in the world should that be against the TOS?

[lammert]

AdSense is not allowed on pages without content. Links to downloads and a description of the downloads is still content IMHO.

As I have a few of these download pages I am interested in what Google thinks of it. Therefore I just sent an email to AdSense support and will inform you of their judgement.

[ionchannels]

Of course that is allowed. Why would anyone think this is against the TOS? Google is not about to get into the gray area of defining what is and isn't QUALITY content. They spell it out very clearly in the TOS, contact pages, solely affiliate links and registration pages are not considered content. Once you write original copy or add value to existing copy then of course you can place adsense ads on the page... end of story.

[Atomic]

I have some code I have written that I provide for download. I have detailed descriptions about what it does and how it works with screenshots.

And I included some AdSense and have just managed to cover hosting for my free code downloads. I looked the TOS over carefully and don't see how I could be in violation.

[chikung]

Hello,

According to the suggestions in the thread I mailed G with a link of one of the page and I received the following reply

"Thank you for your email. I can confirm that this page is currently compliant with our policies."

English is not my first languege. Can anybody exactly tell me what it means? Can't take risk with adsense.

[Atomic]

That means that it's OK for you to use AdSense on that page.

[lammert]

Just received AdSense's response on the review of my download pages.

(Translated and paraphrased) "The amount of text on the pages is sufficient for ad targeting. Therefore we have no objections."

So ad targetting seems the primary issue, not content type or quality.