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15 Common Mistakes that Violate Google Adsense TOS
May 24th, 2005|
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Google Adsense publishers often commit common mistakes that could ban their Adsense account. Google Adsense is a popular web advertising program which provides a good income source for many websites. There are well defined terms of service to strictly adhere to when participating in the program.
On my visit through sites and forums, I daily notice several instances of misuse of Adsense ads. So here a few helpful Google Adsense tips, probably many you already know, and few you might gain by knowing now. These adsense faq are all picked from the Program Policies, Terms and Conditions and FAQ itself and presented in a simplified manner.
1. Never click your own adsense ads or get them clicked for whatever reason. You know this one very well. This is a surefire way to close you Adsense account. Never tell your office associates or friends to click on them. Keep a check if your family or children are busy increasing your income by clicking your ads and indirectly trying to stop your income. Dont even think of offering incentives for clicks, using automated clicking tools, or other deceptive software. Adsense is very smart to detect fraudulent clicks. Check the ads which appear on your pages by the Google Preview tool if required.
2. Never change the Adsense code. There are enough means of adsense optimization & customizations available to change the colour, background or border to suit your needs. Do whatever you want to do outside the code, never fiddle within the ad or the search code. They know it when you do. The search code has more limitations to colour and placement, but you should adhere to the rules. The code may stop working and violates the TOS.
3. Do not place more than 3 ad units and 3 ad links or 2 adsense search boxes on any web page. Anyway, ads will not appear in those units even if you place more ad units. But this is the limit they set, so it is better to stick to it.
4. Do not run competitive contextual text ad or search services on the same site which offer Google Adsense competition in their field. Never try to create link structures resembling the adsense ads. Never use other competitive search tools on the same pages which have Adsense powered Google search. They do allow affiliate or limited-text links. Update: Google has allowed you to run contextual advertising like Yahoo ads, Chitika etc provided the ads do not resemble Adsense ads.
5. Do not disclose confidential information about your account like the CTR, CPM and income derived via individual ad units or any other confidential information they may reveal to you. However, you may reveal the total money you make as per recent updates to the TOS.
6. Label headings as “sponsored links” or “advertisements” only. Other labels are not allowed. I have seen many sites label ads with other titles. Dont make your site a target in a few seconds gaze.
7. Never launch a New Page for clicked ads by default. Adsense ads should open on the same page. You may be using a base target tag to open all links in a new window or frame by default. Correct it now as they do not want new pages opening from clicked ads.
8. One Account suffices for Multiple websites. You do not need to create 5 accounts for 5 different websites. One account will do. If you live in the fear that if one account is closed down for violation of TOS, believe me they will close all accounts when they find out. You can keep track of clicks by using channels with real time statistics. They will automatically detect the new site and display relevant ads.
9. Place ads only on Content Pages. Advertisers pay only for content based ads. Content drives relevant ads. Although you might manage some clicks from error, login, registration, “thank you” or welcome pages, parking pages or pop ups, it will get you out of the program.
10. Do not mask ad elements. Alteration of colours and border is a facility to blend or contrast ads as per your site requirements. I have seen many sites where the url part is of the same colour as the background. While blending the ad with your site is a good idea, hiding relevant components of the ads is not allowed. Also do not block the visibility of ads by overlapping images, pop ups, tables etc.
11. Do not send your ads by email. Html formatted emails look good and allow placement of these javascript ads. But it is not allowed as per TOS. You do not want impressions registering on their logs from any email even once. They are watching!
12. Keep track of your content. So Adsense is not allowed on several non content pages. But it is also not allowed on several content pages too. Do not add it on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results. Also exclude any pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content.
13. Do not alter the results after ad clicks or searches – Ensure you are not in any way altering the site which the user reaches to after clicking the ads. Do not frame, minimize, remove, redirect or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display of any Advertiser Page or Search Results Page after the user clicks on any Ad or Search results.
14. Avoid excessive advertising and keyword stuffing – Although the definition of ‘excessive’ is a gray area and is subject to discretion, yet Google adsense with correct placement, focused content and high traffic will get you much more income than other programs, so excessive advertising is not required. Keyword stuffing does target better focused ads, but overdoing it is not required.
15. Ensure you Language is Supported – Adsense supports “Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Danish, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, English, Polish, Finnish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian and Turkish”. In addition, AdSense for search is available in Czech, Slovak, and Traditional Chinese. If your web pages language is not supported, do not use the code on such pages.
Update:
16. Maximum 2 referral button per product per page – With the launch of the google adsense referral program, you are allowed to put only 2 referral buttons for adsense referral, adwords referral, Google pack and Firefox with google toolbar referral. Update: This feature is closing Aug 2008.
17. Do not specify Google ads as your alternate ads. – Several services like Chitika eminimalls allow you to place alternate urls, when a targeted paying ad cannot be displayed. This involved creating an simple html page and putting the ad to be displayed instead. Even Adsense allows an alternate url feature instead of displaying public service ads. But never use Adsense ads as alternate urls.
18. Do not confuse with adjacent images – It was a common policy to increase CTR by placing same number of images as the number of text ads, which falsely gave the impression that the text ads represented an explanation to these images. Inserting a small space or a line between the images and ads is not allowed. Make sure that the ads and images are not arranged in a way that could easily mislead or confuse your visitors. More.
Whenever in doubt, it is better to ask for adsense help from the learned staff of Google Adsense. They are very helpful!
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You mentioned it in the first item, but you should clarify that you shouldn’t post:
“Please click these ads to help us keep our site alive.”
This is the biggest offender I see on websites.
I am in agreement. However, getting banned is going to happen to some and when it does everyone should know how to get back up and running on google without waiting 1 month or more. i have this information for you all.
These are some really helpful tips. I spent an hour looking for these on google, and could not find them. They make everything very hard to find, when it comes to their rules.
Thanks Brandy
I would like that info on how to get back up should I get terminated for some reason. Thank you.
How can I label ads only with the terms you give (item #6) when I have four blogs and eight ad spaces. And since I use TypePad and ads are developed using TypeLists, I have to name each of the eight something different since I want different ad units, colors, etc. to be on each blog. I can’t use only these two. Or am I missing something (which could certainly be the case).
FMF, “sponsored links” or “advertisements” only are the only terms officially allowed by google.
I noticed that you have 2 Adsense Ads on this blog page…one on top and the oher one on the bottom.
How are you able to do this?
When I try to do this one of them disappears while the other remains?
Please explain! Thank you.
Google allow you to put max 3 adsense on one page, if you not able to do this, try to implement it with different custom channel or perhaps you dont have enough content, check your keywords density.
That is not correct.
Currently, AdSense publishers may place up to three AdSense for content units on one webpage. You may also place a maximum of three link units and two search boxes on each webpage.
If you place more than one ad unit on a page, our system will display unique ads to each ad unit. Because the system automatically displays an optimal number of highly targeted Google ads on each page, in some cases, the maximum number of ads may not always appear. In this case, the ad unit will show as a transparent box, or will contain any alternate ad or color specified in the ad code.
This is correct as of 2-3-10
I was a newbie to Google adsense when i tried clicking on my own ads to get bucks, though i was very young to e-business and e-development, i didn’t have sense of business. I clicked daily, I got my first check i was happy, but on my way to 2nd check, I got banned by google.
Now i miss this program a lot. Why was I so stupid :[
The biggest mistake I see on sites is rule number six. I used to break that rule on some of my sites unintentionally…I didn’t know that rule existed until I happened upon it in a blog somewhere.
Hi! if an acc was disable let say xyz.com site, does this means that this site is ban forever? thanks
i want to know if i have clicked on my adds when google will block my account? at the same time or after a month on sending checks??
I just getting started with AdSense
Thanks alot for the tips ;)
yeah, I realized a lot about how important it is to see the terms of service. I hope you write a similar article on google analytics sometime.
Thank you for the tips
thnx for these good tips! :)
Yes, something we all need to remember. Thanks
I’ve seen plenty sites and blogs that say: click on my links coz i need to pay for my hosting :)) How naive…
That’s a nice resource, however unfortunately there are other ways that you account can be closed down, and there is nothing you can do about it – since it’s other people who do it for you. For more details see the story about how my account got closed:
“How to Bring Google AdSense Down” Or “You are Guilty but We will not Tell You Why”.
And there’s the Flahs Ads now which sometimes you can’t identify if it’s from Google Adsense or not.
Do you think adsense will deteriorate soon? because other people can just throw you out of the program by clickin on your ads repetitively.
Hi,
Great post, thanks.
Very useful tips for bloggers.Thanks a lot.
thank you so much, it’s great.
Good tips! Is there some example to look at to clarify #18?
Never promote your AdSense using traffic exchange program.
Good tips man….
Sound advice, but i cant get an adsense account and no one over at google will tell me why my appilcation was not approved. They just dont respond to emails. :(
thanks for your useful tip .
IMHO, rule <i>#7</i> is because Google wants to retrieve the <b>REFERER</b>. This way they know whom to pay commission for the clicked a*ds :) A browser like Opera can disable referer-logging, but Google uses JavaScript to find out the referer information. If JavaScript isn’t available, the a*ds simply not shown, right? So, the point is, if you want to get pai*d for what you deserve, don’t open the a*ds in a new window/tab. Thanks for the tip.
I didn’t have any idea how to invite people to visit my blog…and how to make more people click on my ads just once they look to my site?try my new blog my-nokia3250.blogspot.com
great tips, thanks
hmmm. Esstential tips :) simply good thx
Regarding:Do not add it on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results.
what do you mean by this?can sites with video from youtube for example be banned?
Now adsense supports more languages – that includes Indic – Hindi, Gujarati etc.
very good please me the details of how to make revenue from adsense and how to get hits thanks
srikanth
as u said in the 7 point that never launch a new page for ad. i have a question that if someone copy adsense ad link and open in text mode internet and open the ad link is it make any problem
In response to Stas Bekman’s comment #16, virtually exactly the same thing happened to our business – Google mistakenly closed our AdSense account.
After nearly 3 years of steady page impression growth, with Adsense earnings consistent around $4-7 a day, one day our page impressions trebled, resulting in earnings of $31 in one day. Two days later our account was closed for ‘fraudulent clicks’ with no further details.
In hindight, there was a perfectly rational explanation for the spike in page impressions – our site is soccer news related and it was a really big soccer news day. Confident we had done nothing wrong, we pled our case and launched an appeal.
The language we used was virtually the same as your own. We too had the same theories about competitors clicking on ads. Three months later we still do not have a Google AdSense account and we have given up writing to them.
We are now consulting a law firm since it has had a pretty serious impact on our business. We were right in the middle of closing an important round of financing, and it nearly cost us our investment.
We are left with more questions than answers…
We had 8 other sites which had run Google ads at various times over the past 3 years with the same Google AdSense account. Are all of them now tainted, or just the ones with active Google ads?
Is it just the one site we think (but aren’t 100% sure) had the spike in impressions and thus the increased earnings? Google won’t tell us.
What happens if we sell our sites to an outside buyer or transfer them to a new division? Will they be banned from Adsense too? If so, that DRASTICALLY affects the price we can seek. If we don’t know which ones are tainted, it affects the price of all of them, and it would be unethical not to disclose it to an outside buyer.
How about sites from a sister business which had / has the same Google Analytics code running as the problem site? Are those sites tainted too?
In summary, our experience has mean’t we have had to disclose a pretty troublesome sounding fact to outside investors right in the middle of a crucial financing. It has been very problematic for us and extremely uncomfortable.
I’d be very interested to hear from other people who have had similar experiences or could shed light on these questions. I can be reached through the website above…
Clearly it’s not an isolated problem…
Very helpful. However i have a comment on the last point. If anyone is familiar with the Adsense Beautifier for Wordpress, is that illegal too? I have removed it from my blog. I dare not reinstate it again if this is true. Its just some patterns next to the ad. However, i dont know whether its against the TOS.. Please assist. Thank you!
Thanks for the nice tips. I was doing few things in wrong fashion and after reading this blog I’ll certainly check the stuff. Thanks again.
My Adsense account was disabled today and I’m mad as hell. As soon as my site started making money they canceled it without so much of a reason. Are there any other ad companies I could use? Thanks keepup the good work.
I am with Adsense from about 2 years now
They are really helpful.I like their program
Do you know about any other such program
Very helpful. Inadvertently I had broken 1. Minor infraction but I’m glad to be able to fix it before I get into trouble.
hyee….emmm…i think your information give me some idea…thanks for that and keep posting good information..
thanks for saving my ass.
Hi everyone!
A couple of years ago my Adsense account was banned in my site htt://site.com then I created another site for my sister who has her own Adsense account. Her site though is hosted in a sub-directory of server, i.e http://hersite.site.com
My question is: Will b there any problem if I place her Adsense codes on my main site?
I most appreciate any help. Thanks!
thanks for the tips. now i know that i’am wrong, and i will improve my blogs. thanks again. ^^
Troubled > I wouldn’t recommend doing that as it violates Google’s TOS. If you’re looking for an AdSense alternative, I highly recommend Chitika.
Fortunately I have not done any of these mistakes (yet)!
that is interesting article you post here.
i am curently using adsense and adbrite, can anyone tell me is it ok to put adbrite together with google adsense?
thanks in advance.
Great post. Great guideline for new publishers. They will be benefited most.
I recommend you all to check Program policy+TOS+Adsense Blog regularly.
hi,
very useful article indeed… We have faced a problem, where someone (from other country) intentionally kept clicking the ads and our adsense account was closed for fraud clicks !!!!!
what can be done for this??? who is responsible???
Can someone please explain about not having Google ads next to video? What does this mean? What kind of video?
What about underneath a youtube video embedded on a page with content?
Thank you!
thanx for the tips, really a great post for newbie’s like me.
thanx again
Hi, I am new with google adsense, first time when i implement the code. I didn’t read much and so curious that i click on my own ad. I earn $1.41 on the day.
Since then, it earn $0. I know that i did mistakes in the past, but my account is not banned as yet as I have stop doing so.
How do I recover from having $0?
Thanks.
learning by mistakes… :)
You have write the most complete adsense mistake reference i seen so far. I will take a closer look.
Thanks
Very handy tips, interesting read. Thanks!
Hey Vic, it all depends on your site. You must have ‘earned’ that $1.41 from your own clicks.
If Google hasn’t banned you for that, then earning $0 has nothing to do with it.
If you didn’t read it all enough to know not to click your own ads, perhaps you should try reading all/most the info that Google provides for this.
There’s implementation, colors blending, channels for testing, etc.
You also need a good amount of TRAFFIC.
Good luck! :-)
Thanks for the information…
But there is more to it. Google strategically is shifting ad revenue back to its search results. Advertising on Google search result page is quite high so advertiser will end up paying multifold as compared to what he is paying now.
Also there method of detecting invalid click is also very funny, some of them I have listed on http://www.fixthegoogle.com
Some very usefull tips…I’ll try to use it wiselly thanx.
Google so complicated to get what you want
Thanks for the Info..
I switched to Yahoo Publishers.. It pays much better than Google Adsense..
thank you for this great informations , I am a new blogger and I think that these tips will be useful
i have one doubt can we see our own blog daily after updating it but without any clicks in adsense ads
Hi i’m a beginner. thanks for the tips can anyone check for my site is there any problem…
useful tips for everyone – thanks!
Thats a good list of donts.
update:Now we can place more referral ad units on our pages than before.
I think google have more than 15 criteria to delete your Adsense account.
I was wondering about ADBRITE- because it offers the use of Adsense as an alternative ad should Adbrite not have any ads to push to the site.
But now that you said Google actually doesn’t allow that, I’ve taken it off. I don’t remember reading that in the T&C though, might need to go and check again unless you have the number handy.
Because, if Google actually doesn’t allow that, isn’t that anti-free enterprise?
http://www.entrepreneur.com.sg
i thank you for this
Awesome collection of tips, I will surely make a note of them. Thanks so much.
Nice site… to learn the adsense tips…
I am from Hyderabad and new to Google Adsense and want to start. Recently, I have created a web page in freewebs but THEIR google ads are getting displayed. Now I want to start my own web page just to publish Google Adsense.
Could any one clarify my doubts.
1) Is it worthy to have own site?
2) Is there any one to guide me at Hyderabad for creating adsense and to guide me in web hosting.
Your valuable suggestions are solicited.
It would be courteous of them to give you 1 warning before cutting you off in the event that you made an actual mistake.
thanks you for your tips.
thank you for this great informations , I am a new blogger and I think that these tips will be useful.
Regarding clickin on own ads on one’s site. When I started using Adsense there was a month that I clicked on two of my ads, but only because I was interested in the websites that were advertised. I was sent a warning email by google. I told why I clicked. They said if I am interested in an ad than I should put their URL in my browser.
I wrote this comment so that others who might be interested in their ads know what they sould do.
Thanks for Tips.
thanx for your tips
but people still don’t know what’s invalid clicks exactly and adsense is not telling publishers for the main reason of band
Did you really made some few money with adsense??
As a new one, good tips, thank you all!
whitetulip11
Lot of people make money online thru adsense…..
Excellent one
15 Common Mistakes that Violate Google Adsense TOS
This title is now outdated!
Now you have 18 Common Mistakes that Violate Google Adsense TOS
Anyway, your tips on Google’s Adsense are really helpful.
Thanks a lot
:-)
Guy from Hyderabad:
Yes it’s very worth it to get your own domain and hosting, so that you don’t have to display their ads. With your own site, you pretty much can call the shots.
If you want to get well-versed in how Google Adsense works, try webmaster forums, keep coming back to this blog here and read every single article that is here. That’s how you learn.
As for hosting, start out with something cheap until you get the hang of it, like GoDaddy, Hostgator, etc. If you are not able to handle a lot of html coding, then you may want to get a host that has an “Easy Site Builder System”.
Start out with this and if you have the passion, you will learn it and most likely succeed.
Don’t BUY anything, until you fully understand the entire process!
Good luck! :-)
MJ
Thank for the article. I will feature your article on my blog so more will benefit your this great article.. Will credit you :D
nice Adsense tips going here. thanks for that tips.
My Adsense account was disabled. I re-applied for that one. yet they did not send any reply. After that can I apply fresh Adsense application for that site? my site : http://sarugu.com Is it possible?
Hi everyone!
A couple of months ago my Adsense account was banned in my site then I created another site for my sister who has her own Adsense account. Her site though is hosted in a sub-directory of server.
My question is: Will b there any problem if I place her Adsense codes on my main site?
I most appreciate any help. Thanks!
good advise,i recently added google ad sense to my website,ihave been making about 50 to 80 dollars a month can anybody advice me how to make even more without getting suspended…….thank you
this is clearly Double Standards from Google..
for rule 7. Never launch a New Page for clicked ads by default.
try the same adsense display in gmail.com and all the links open in new window…
how does sites jump to another site without logging out the current user ???
somebody advise me plzzzz
hi,
this tips are very useful ..
thanks.
Hi
Thanks for providing some infromations
Bye
thanks for the GREAT post! Very useful…
Biggest Adsense Cheque Ever!
Hi there, just for Your information. Do you think that Markus Frind’s (Plentyoffish.com) cheque is the biggest? You are totally wrong! Check this Adsense cheque out. It came from Mr Big Check, and read what he said to me…
http://cheques-gallery.blogspot.com/2007/12/biggest-adsense-cheques-ever.html
Mr. Cheque.
http://cheques-gallery.blogspot.com
#1 Google Preview tool don’t show exact results that will be after placing on page.
thanks for the tips
Is there a good alternative for a adult site ?
What about the different account between google account and blogger account
“Ensure you Language is Supported”
If I have blog in Indonesian language (not english),
may I use my adsense code to my blog?
I’m glad I saw this article beause I’m just starting to use Adsense. I still have a bit of a community built up and it’s good to know some of these basic rules so I don’t have to learn the hard way. I really wan’t sure how many d blocks you could put on one page but you’re article cleared it up for me.
Thanks a lot for all the good advice. I take use of adsense for some years and learned to optimize the results – but not with forbidden tricks.
I agree with your recommendations – you’re right.
Nevertheless – there are some webmasters, which specify Google ads as alternate ads. And it seems as if it works well on pages with not supported language like icelandic.
Curious!
Best regards
Konrad
Germany
One more can be added that never steal other publishers Ad code to alter and paste in your web pages.
hi i have launched my webpage 4months ago and google started showing ads on my site but my reveneu is not increasing it is still o$.please tell me where i am making mistake….i have also registered site on search engines but its not changing….plz help me..
hi i have registered my webpage 4 months ago but did not earned a single penny.i have registered my page on search engine now tell me how to increse traffic and where i am making mistakes?
Great information. I’m new to adsense and want to make sure I abide by their T&C.
J.R. Jackson
MLM Tips Blog
Thank you very much for this post. It clears that we should not use adsense on only image pages (like image gallery). But I have seen a lot of websites use adsense on the gallery pages without any problem. Any way thanks again.
good day! im new in blogging, im wondering how would google adsense detect if the clicking of the ads is legal or illegal?
how would they know if i myself would click my own ads or others will do for me? or visitors who really interested in the ads in my blog would click?
thanks,
if you have time just visit my blog-
http://mindbogblog.blogspot.com/
Google has smart algorithms which can easily detect fraud clicks. Never click your own ads, it is a sure way to get banned.
how bout if i own a computer cafe? i wouldn’t know if they clicked my ads in the same computer… i just don’t get how google find fraud clicks. i asked this coz i’m planning to post my ads on my default page on my shop… i don’t want to be banned, and i don’t think i’m violating any rules.
Google has smart ways to determine if clicks are invalid. If they suspect so, they simply remove the invalid clicks from paying you. An accidental click, or a determined clicker cannot get you banned.
Good article.
Still learning how to use adsense on my blog.
very good information you have share.It will help alot,i feel many people will take due care after reading this article.
thanks
I have started a website and activated my adsense account. The site is getting good response. Your tips helped me a lot. T/y very much.
That JR Jackson character who commented above is a scammer. Google his name and “Streamline International” and see how he has been accused of fraud by the U.S. government!
Great Information. I will certainly make sure to follow the guidelines.
Helpful Information.
I was not sure about Point 6. Thanks so much
Useful tips for me. Thank you.
you should be able to put 3 adsense bloks on one page, only one thing may stop you – little or no content.
Great information, helpful for newbie.
Great guide, I will take a note of this.
Btw, the #3 one is a bit confusing.
clicking your own ads – one of the quickest ways to get banned :-)
eventually you shouldn’t click adds on your own page, but there are people who do so carefully. however don’t try it at home…
Hi,
Nice site and usful article on google adsense. Please tale some usefull tips how to bring good number of traffic in the adsense site.
Thanks.
Rule #9. Place ads only on Content Pages.
Would it be a problem if adsense code is placed on the sitemap page as Sitemap consist mainly of links and basically no content. Would that be a violation?
changing codes is not even monitored by google!! my friend earns 60$ dollar a day through adsense, and he violates the rule because his blog is in Indonesian language.. so who is wrong here!!!!!
Very good source of information. I wasn’t much aware of the rule#7
thank you vey much, it is very useful.
Hello,
I am new in this google adsense and did a few mistakes from your list in the beginning but now have learned from them.
Thanx for all of them
Gr8! But a question sometimes google cancel an account if the ads are clicked several times frequently form a same IP. So a competitor can misuse and try to ban your adsense account.
Please tell how to promote my web site link i started 6months but no huge earnings still i get.pls mail me publising method.thank u
Thanks for sharing such awesome information
some of these are really i don,t know before
thank any way
Thank you for these great tips.I have a question and need your response on this issue.There are some adsense ready wordpress themes where you just need to put your publishers ID instead of creating your own adsense box in adsense setup.Is it legal?
thank you for the info i am new to the adsense game good post thanks
thanks for sharing this great post. :D
I’d like to see some earnings numbers to really see what’s possible with adsense. I’m still a newbie.
Just watched the Joel Comm video… great!
A useful reminder on the don’ts.
Despite so, there are still people revealing CTR on digitalpoint forums
Whatz better ?
Using same/single adsense code in diff. pages or using diff. adsense codes in diff. pages ?
Thanks for reviewing the TOS for Google Adsense, I was looking for the Email one. I got it now and will never send emails with adsense code. I thought it will be a nice idea to add the adsense code in Emails, but it violate the Google TOS.
Once again Thank You.
I have visited this page before, but i’m still visiting it.
These are some of the basics that publishers often forget and overlook.
Sincerely speaking, i just created my blog for the purpose of making money with the blogtoolbar, which if u have 2500 active users will get u about 800usd a month and about adsense, it so tempting not to violate their rule of clicking your own ads especially when using another pc, anyway i dont want to get banned but its really hard for me to refer my friend to my blog without reminding him to click ads of products that intrest him thru my site, i have even bought a product from google adsense in my site, thanks for the info, i should be more careful now
Great information, simplify the explanation of Adsense TOS
Thanks buddy for the great information/tip..
so be careful about the Google TOS ,not simply thinking about high CTR only!!
very helpful post.Thanks a lot buddy!
cheers!
My site gets about 6000 pageloads per day after 9 months in operation.
My site features nutty news, displaying mugshots along with the story behind a particular arest.
I display both adsense and adbright ads.
The adsense ads get more clicks, yet adbright has been paying out almost double what adsense does.
On an average day I’ll make $1 from adsense, but I’ll make $3 or $4 from adbright. This is a consistent trend day after day.
I’ve added this post for those who have been kicked out of participating with adsense… Believe me, there are options.
good info, can i put your information in my blog to tell others and to remind me?
i will put a link for them to go to your site for more information.
tq
Thanks for the simplified version of Adsense TOS.
thanks for the help, this is a lot easier than reading the whole toS
Very very interesting and informative tips. Ive been voilating no.6 w/o knowing ! Thanx for the tip :)
In my opinion adsense ads works best with sites that have enourmous traffic. If you only get something about 100-200 unique visitors per day, adsense may not work very well on your site.
These all seem reasonable to me, with one exception:
“Never click your own adsense ads or get them clicked for whatever reason”.
Yahoo! figured out how to auto-filter clicks you make on your own web pages. Certainly Google should do the same.
Great article!
thanks for the usefull information, i think its important to keep our account save
Very helpful. A seattle guy says thanx,..
Great tips! I’ve recently started using Adsense seriously on my new blogs. These are all great things to know if you don’t want to get banned… and you will. I’ve heard too many horror stories.
thx for info. i just wanna know i have new website contain mp3 search engine. does google allowed mp3 search engine web site?my site doesnt host any of mp3 files. it just indexing from 3rd party.
i search on some forum but have not get answer yet.
its confusing me .
oh thanks for telling these mistakes.
Very good list that will benefit all and sundry. I learned a lot about google policies and whatnottodos.
Thanks
Hi,
I have created a website.I tried it to register with Adsense two times.But Adsense rejected my request.Please help me.
Good informative and nice blog.
Thanks again for revealing so much of your business secret. :D
Together with the first post, I got the idea of earning of Adsense now, I will try to figure out what to do on my website along with your guidance. :)
Regards,
Jessica
Great tips! I am very, very new to Adsense (it’s just this week that I received their approval to have Adsense on my blot) and I really needed all the information I can get won’t get banned. In other words, I want to earn something but all under the proper Google Adsense rules! The discussion among your viewers are very rich too.Thanks!
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Improving your Adsense Performance
After running adsense for a while, you may still question why the performance of the ads on your site is still under expectation. This is quite a common question that I recently recieve. Hence, I decide to write this post to provide some sort of hints and tips in order to unleash your Adsnese potential. I use the word “unleash”, simple because I do think everyone should have high potential to generate great revenue through Adsense. I hope, after reading this post, all of your Adsense potential can be unleashed and maximized.
1. Make Best Use of URL Channels
Use AdSense URL Channels to determine which pages are making you the highest CTR, CPM, and earnings. Focus your efforts on building pages like those. Channels enable you to keep track on the performance of each of your ads. However, Google only provides 200 channels and may not enough to satisfy those Adsensers with many sites and ads.
2 . Blend your ads with background
Blending your ads with the background of your site. Apart from the color, font size of both your ads and background fonts should also be the same. Another method of camouflage is to remove all the borders on your AdSense ads. The border have no paricular use buit will make your stand out. It is also a way to boost your CTR and increase your revenue.
3. Use Blue Links
From my experience, set the color of the link of your ads to blue color may help. Your visitors will think these blue links are just your content links but not an ad. The reason behind is that people have become used to those clicking blue links.
4. Large Ads outperform small ads
From my experience and the finding from other Adseners, both large and wide ads perform better; while small and narrow are underperform. Of course, it is subjected to your template and layout. The Large Rectangle Ad format (336×280) should be the best ad unit among all.
5. Integrate Ads with Content
Visitors come to your site becuase they want to find those information they want. Integrates your ads as close to your content as possible to ensure that the visitors will also look at your ads. Taking my blog as an example, I have implemented my ads into each post, and the result is quite fruitful and have recieved higher CTR.
6. Don’t Compete for Other Peoples High-paid Keywords
Everybody know what are the high-paid keywords are. If you are using one of the high-paid keywords, that means there will be more than thousands of spammers are already competing for that keyword. People are getting less easy to access your website. Do not follow such list closely. There is no money in being one of the crowd.
7. Do Compete for Your Own High Paying Keywords
Use channels to let you know what keywords are the best. Monitor your AdSense URL channels to determine which keywords are making you the most money. Compete for those keywords. Build more pages optimized for similar keywords. Get inbound links for those keywords. Spend your time and efforrt on the keywords which are making you money.
8. Increase the Traffic to Your Site
In long run, the best method to boost up your AdSense earning is to build regualr and constant traffic to your web site. This issue has been thoroghly in my previous posts. You may probably refer to those articles by clicks relevant topic on the right.
9. Place Ads Above the Fold
“The fold” is industry jargon for “the part of the page that the user sees without scrolling down”. This will vary depending upon the resolution of the users screen and the size of their browser window.Place as many ads as possible above the fold. Ads placed below the fold are seldom seen and seldom clicked.
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“9. Place ads only on Content Pages. Advertisers pay only for content based ads. Content drives relevant ads. Although you might manage some clicks from error, login, registration, “thank you” or welcome pages, parking pages or pop ups, it will get you out of the program.”
Well, that has been changed a bit. AdSense does allow you to put ads on parked domains now. And, they have a new feature that allows you to put ads on secure login pages.
4. Do not run competitive contextual text ad or search services on the same site which offer Google Adsense competition in their field.
…. this is no longer true. Google allows competitor ads now.
This is a great article. Even though a few items are now different, every new publisher should read this. It could sav them a lot of wasted potential money in the future.
Yeah it’s true that if you are honest and follow the adsense TOS you will never get banned. Making website is easily now because software is available now to create website automatically with no efforts and no html knowledge but the main problem is to get traffic, for those who cannot spend money on advertising.
Thanks for the post! I just got approved by adsense, then I found your article. Thanks to your article, I am avoiding some big mistakes.
thanks for your tips, but i think you should also tell those adsense clickers to obey the rules and not play by it.
very good and I like what you say but the problem is the very low income from the program it self …I have very big traffic but with very low CPM more traffics lead to less CPM..
before I was only get at most 200 visit to my site and i earn about 12 to 15 $ a day know I have more than 2000 visit a day and only I get from 1 to 2 $ a day..
thank you a gaine
A very useful tips. Thank you very much. I will make some changes to my websites. Hope my adsense revenue will increase dramatically. Thanks again.
Hi,
I had a question that I was hoping you knew the answer to. I have a search bar on my site that is not from google. I made it myself and it only shows results from my site. Will I be banned for having a google ad appear on my search results page?
The points mentioned are absolutely true.But the worst things mentioned here is in the points 7th n 8th… I ask u admin who the hell said u that the adds should not be opened in new tab? If a visitor is interested to stay in same page.. he will open add in new window..
2nd thing,mentioned in point 8…How can say that u should not maintain multiple accounts? Do u work for google or r u in adsense team?.. this is absolutely wrong.. Publishers can maintAIN multiple accounts UNDER DIFFERENT PAYEE NAMES..Google will not remove ur account if they find since they r under diff. payee names..
Hi Expert. Thanks for your points. On point 7, of course users are free to open links in new tabs. The terms state that your site should not open these links on new pages by default. On point 8, thanks for informing us that publishers can maintain multiple accounts under different payee names.
Thanks for the nice tips.. I should consider these points in mind since i am running adsense in my blog too…
Thanks for your useful tips. I’m looking into the points to improve my adsense clicks.
Nice tips, good guide to newbies and experts.
Wow, this post is four years old but still very relevant. Nice job.
BTW, I guess based on your points, I can’t put:
“Please help support my website and click on one of these ads!”
Believe it or not, I have seen people do that, though not it a while…
Steve, aka “trade show display booths”
These rules make some sense, but I am not having good luck with Google Adense. I get the same exact ads nearly every time, and all are competitor game sites.
The provide only a lame bandaid fix to filter out competitor ads thinking we are going to take the hours it takes to click on competitor ads to get the link or domain name (that does not appear in all the ads).
Getting the wrong ads does as much damage to an online business as it would if Google simply posted p0rnographic ads instead.
Great tip…Stumble the list..TFS
Wow, it is 4 years later and this is still great advice – thanks for sharing!
This is good advice. Will hopefully keep me out of trouble! ha Cheers
This post is very informative. Thanks for sharing…
Lots of informative tips,
always remember not to put too much of adds into your page. it must contain good content too.
I think that arabic language is supported and you did not list it under google adsense supported languages.
Thanks
Very good tips. Encouraging clicks is just using poor judgement when you think about it. Thanks for the post!
Do you if someone gets banned from Adsense, does the person get banned or the web page ?
For example if I got my account disabled but now closed my web site and opened a new one different can I sign up again or am I banned forever ?
They ban your whole account usually. But they are responsive to your queries, depending on the reason they banned it.
Very Helpful Tips…THank You
Does this mean that I am not allowed to participate in other affiliate programs and/or LinkShare if I have Adsense?
Hi,
What a great article.
I want to ask you about few things:
1. I plan to build a site which automatically embed the videos from youtube and install the adsense code there.
Am I allowed to do this based on the Google Adsense TOS ?
2. I also plan to track my data with the program called “site super tracker”. Am I allowed to do this?
Kindly give me some explanations.
Thanks
Pixel.
me not doing any of above.
I cant get an adsense account and no one over at Google will tell me why my application was not approved. They just don’t respond to emails. Please I request u all to give me some advice or tips to get an approval.
Hey great post,
I think it will help all adsense users to improve.
Keep up
I think this article has to be updated. Some of the points noted here are not relevant in this period of time.
very good info
Great Tip, thanks!
thanks for this tips its really helpfull
but i ve some questions regarding adsense:
i ve another website but its language differ from the language of the site im using adsense on it , so i ve to create a new account for that site or i can put adsense code on that site although its language is different ?
my second question is : i ve a Google adword voucher so is it OK to have an adword account and adsense account or im breaking there policy but for your information my Google adword is provided from my domain host so what can i do ?
my third question is how to target my advertising or how to add keyword to increase click rate ?
finally , i ve some unused domain and i seen that adsense offer you to use your unused domains so if i do so it will decrease my earning of every product have its price as the ad sense have 4 categories :
1- adsense for content.
2- adsence for search.
3- adsense for feeds.
4- adsense for domain.
im asking if i use all the categories for adsense my earning will decrease as it distributed on them.
thanks and sorry for that long comment hope to answer my questions & thanks a lot.
These are very good points to remember. Sometimes it’s difficult to remember to follow all of these so I like to implement all of my ads in a template so I just have to do it one time!
i was placing a google adsense ads before game is loading. They have banned me for this reason without warning. today atmost all of the game sites are placing pre game adsese ads before their game load. What you are doing don’t have to violate the adsense TOS. Sometimes you are in editor’s hands.
it necessary thing, nice tips, i need to be careful of this :)
Hi,
I have question. I have website where people can make their own pages, Can I allow them to paste their own google adsesne code in their pages so they can also earn out of it. would that be legal. In this case there will be usage many adsense accounts in the same website. ??
Thanks
Asad
For jne site – only one adsense account.
Good tips for beginner lol