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As ken_b posted, AdSense publishers are not permitted to pre-populate AdSense for search boxes with specific results.
Thanks for asking first!
-ASA
Nice response. Better than RTF TOS. :)
A Comment from AdsenseAdvisor will me much helpfull
Reading the TOS would be equally helpful and more efficient. :-)
"Please consider supporting this site, use this link to search rather than going directly to google.com. The search results are the same and a share of revenue goes to this site."
You could accused of encouraging use of google search, but not of encouraging add clicks, as no mention of the paid links was made.
If you want to try it, I would suggest emailing Google to see what they say.
You could accused of encouraging use of google search, but not of encouraging add clicks, as no mention of the paid links was made.
If you want to try it, I would suggest emailing Google to see what they say.//
I would definately contact G before attempting to pull that off ; )
Rodney,
While I don't know if it is within TOS to encourage users to use his search box rather than google directly, it isn't encouraging clicks on adds. If the suggestion is worded something like :-
"Please consider supporting this site, use this link to search rather than going directly to google.com. The search results are the same and a share of revenue goes to this site."You could accused of encouraging use of google search, but not of encouraging add clicks, as no mention of the paid links was made.
If you are asking your visitors to "support your site" by using the Google search box, then it's not too much of a stretch that you're asking them to click the sponsored ads which is the only thing that shares revenue.
If you have to ask visitors to "support this site", then you're already going the wrong direction; I'm pretty sure that's the whole intent of the "drawing attention to the ads" and "encouraging visitors to click" areas of the TOS.
