AdSense In Email

[digitalpoint]

It's widely known that Google is looking into the ability to displaying AdSense in email. But I was looking over the AdSense terms, and saw this:


Prohibited Uses:
(v) display any Ad(s) on any error page, registration or "thank you" page (e.g. a page that thanks a user after he/she has registered with the applicable Web site), or in any email or on any Web page or any Web site that contains any pornographic, hate-related or violent content
The terms specifically state you can't display them on pornographic or hate emails, but does that mean you can on other emails right now? Well, I already know you *can*, but is it within the terms to do so?

- Shawn

[Foxy]

Hi

The short answer as I read it is NO

or in any email

this says you can't as it goes on to say

or on .....

which means that this is read in isolation.

However I must admit their diction is not very good.

I had a problem with them where they said "only one adsense ad per page" - which is what I did - except that if you use frames you can load a number of pages at one time. So I pointed this out to them and they altered their terms of usage [about a month ago]!

[digitalpoint]

Maybe they are just preping the terms for when the AdSense can be displayed in emails. At least easily... As I mentioned previously, I was mucking around with them for fun (because I'm a dork), and you can make them work in email as it is now. It's just a little tricky.

- Shawn

[Foxy]

I hadn't tried to put them in an email

Why is it tricky?

[tecnobrat]

Foxy + Shawn,

If you read it as:

or in any email;
or on any Web page;
or any Web site that contains any pornographic, hate-related or violent content

This means that you cannot put any adsense code on any web page, as well as any e-mail, and you also cannot put it on any pornographic, hate-related or violent website.

I would recommend sending them an e-mail and ask :)

There terms are certainly not very clear.

Just my $0.02 :)

[digitalpoint]

Try it... it's more than a copy/paste, and then even when you *do* get it working, you need to "trick" it into serving non-PSA ads.

- Shawn

[Foxy]

or in any email;
or on any Web page;
or any Web site that contains any pornographic, hate-related or violent content


Yeah, technobrat, I had seen that, you are quite correct it is not clear as they do not put in the semicolons that you do.

They are effectively saying you cannot use their adsense ads!!!! aren't they! :o

[Foxy]

Try it... it's more than a copy/paste, and then even when you *do* get it working, you need to "trick" it into serving non-PSA ads.

- Shawn

Mmmmm.....quite

I can do normal type pages with html [I set the code in a normal html page] but it doesn't like this too much does it? [I use FMP with popit and smtpit as a mail client with full html ability so I can send and receive html pages but view in a browser]

[digitalpoint]

That's another thing, in the email clients I tested it with I never got it working in Entourage or Mail.app on OS X. Which seem to lack the full JavaScript support necessary. But it did work in Outlook Express and the full version of Outlook on Windows (depending on your Internet security settings).

- Shawn

[Foxy]

Yep I found the same with the mail.app on OSX - didn't test it with Eudora though - might do that next :D

[misohoni]

Create a HTML Newsletter and try it..it'll work

[Foxy]

misohoni

That is what we are doing - it is the clients that are the problem - haven't tested eudora yet - been a bit busy

[misohoni]

ok good luck with it! Probably depends on the settings with the email client also...

[valeriya]

how many people do actually find something relavant on personal emails ?? Most personal email checkers are not in the habbit of clicking on ads...

[SpeedyDomainRegistration]

Wonder if you can send html mail with javascript for the client to load a page on your site that you have setup?

Would this work as the ad will be displayed for the page that is showing in the email browser?

Or whould main client not load the web page at all?

[wingdude]

Can you tell us what you eventually did to show the ads please?
Thanks

[schlottke]

It is against the TOS anyway, dude.

[Refrozen]

Can you tell us what you eventually did to show the ads please?
Thanks
Probably used the frames support (At adsense level) to point the ads at a static HTML page containing the content of the mail.

Either way, I'd say it's against the TOS, I think there was actually a post on Sitepoint about it being against the TOS (someone asked)

[david_sakh]

It's widely known that Google is looking into the ability to displaying AdSense in email. But I was looking over the AdSense terms, and saw this:



The terms specifically state you can't display them on pornographic or hate emails, but does that mean you can on other emails right now? Well, I already know you *can*, but is it within the terms to do so?

- Shawn

This reminds me of a topic brought up in high school.

A line of the blatantly unconstitutional and Christian-influenced code of conduct was added one year. It stated that "only human-colored hair is allowed"

Someone refused to dye his hair back to a normal color, and spurred on by his classmates, he said something like "damnit, woman, my hair was colored by a human!"

He didn't get very far.

Maybe we shouldn't be so technical was G either. :)

[twocans]

Hi yea

i second the question

"Can you tell us what you eventually did to show the ads please?"

regards

two

[whitespider]

ummmm - am I being stupid here? If I am then forgive me.

WHY is everyone discussing HOW to do then it when it is not allowed. As things stand you cannot use adsense in emails.

Whatever you say about the ambiguity of the TOS it is CLEAR that you cannot send adsense in ANY emails.

...... surely end of story.

As to this notion that "It's widely known that Google is looking into the ability to displaying AdSense in email" - how is it widely known? Its not "widely" known or we would all know about it.

I accept I could be a bit slow and maybe it HAS been bandied about that this is a possibilty but "widely known"??? At the moment it is just hearsay and I am sure when it IS allowed that google will make it possible to add it.