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It's against AdSense tos, i know and i'm not after reporting them.
What bothers me is: i get the feeling that AdSense, similar to Google's search index, is obviously manipulated here and there and can only get cleaned by "the help of those who report fraud" but obviously not by automatic context checks.
I don't blame but it might be a good idea for Google to spend some time looking on this issue. What matters these days is how good your tos are controlled by automatic processes to avoid violations ...
- Some more sophisticated filters?
- Not only focusing on click fraud?
- What about better "context fraud" spotting?
- Or modify the TOS?
... or do you think we will get the same eat or die game as with the se ranking competition?
Another alternative would be to leave it in the hands of the other 600,000,000 Internet users. If an ad is relevent they will click it, if not they won't, a great army of "context fraud" spotting people.
The other thing to consider is whether it is a Premium publisher or not. Premium publishers seem to be allowed to do much more than the regular publishers do.
These kind of sites that rewrite their own's search engine's results to look static and by this build huge "content pages".
I don't think that the issue there would be wether or not that would be against the TOS, since a very good argument could be made that these pages are not dynamic search engine results, but could be defined as:
-Sitemaps or better yet a sub-set of the sitemap about a certain topic.
The main issue would be that of content quality. I think that as the program gets bigger and more sites are accepted, the matter of degrading quality of content and the possibility of completely useless content being created is there.
P.S: Of course, I am just imagining the pages that you are referring to. On the other hand, why would we expect Adsense to be any more accurate than the Google index? How many times have we searched something in the index only to find that the first couple of results are nothing but useless spammy ****. Yet, I still think that the SERPs in Google are the best than in any other site.
The new rules do state that ads can't appear on "pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant." But discerning the publisher's intent may not be easy, and I suspect Google will give publishers the benefit of the doubt unless they're using scripts to create mass-produced pages that look, feel, and smell like spam.
The new rules do state that ads can't appear on "pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant."
Hmmm ... I don't have any pages that don't meet that description!
It's no longer against AdSense's program policies to display ads on SERPs.
It is still against the Terms and the FAQ though.
They make specific mention of this in the FAQ:
"Currently, Google AdSense only offers Content-Targeted AdWords ads that we don't allow to be placed on search results pages."
[google.com...]
However, it does mention if you have more than 5 million monthly searches, you can apply Google Sponsored Link Program partners.
And it also makes mention in the terms under Prohobited Uses: "display ads... on any search results page"
[google.com...]
It's pretty obvious that they need to make their documentation consistent! In any case, I'm all for prohibiting the use of AdSense ads on SERPS and, for that matter, on any automatically generated page. It's in their own interest to do so, just to keep Google's own SERPs from becoming cluttered with ersatz "content pages."
That's the point i wanted to focus! So is google somehow a community project like the serp's?
>It's no longer against AdSense's program policies to display ads on SERPs.
Erm, he?
Any site who uses templates to generate a page is being dynamically created, even if the content is "static".
An example would be 1000 visits to the "same" page will result in 1000 unique URLs (ie. www.yourdomain.com/directory/page.html?sid=8e09d7afe7c2e077740a3d472b632297) This would result in 1000 different visits by the mediabot, and those pages would never show anything but PSAs. That would put a lot of unneccessary load on the mediabot as well, not to mention your bandwidth.
I do know that AdSense and the mediabot have no problem with any dynamic pages, if they result in static URLs.
