Adsense and Images

[freshdevelopment]

Reading the adsense ts & cs, i noticed this "May not place misleading images alongside individual ads".

Its a bit wooly - do you think this is accepted? (see link)

http://bythelights.com/

[Dietmotion]

I think it's against google policy. You should remove the picture

[Junije]

No...i think this is not misleading, it has much space between the picture and the ad, plus there is a line separating those two, which is most importand if you are placing images near your adsense ads.

[freshdevelopment]

I have found this article regarding it:

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/12/ad-and-image-placement-policy.html

Apparently placing a line between is not sufficient to stop it being against the conditions, although what they are looking for is images that encourage clicking on the ads. e.g. if you had a list of icons.

I think my image is borderline, so I will probably make some changes to seperate it further. Which is a shame because it really helps click throughs!

[SFOD_D223]

Do they consider a tag cloud an image or icon?

[Adulu]

I don't think that against adsense TOS.
I think it has enough distance between image with ads. also it only one images.

[Dietmotion]

Which is a shame because it really helps click throughs!
That's exactly why Google doesn't accept that, because users click on the links thinking they will get a page regarding that image.;)

[sparxxx]

I think thats ok - but just email them to check.

The picture does not look as if it is part of the ads.

Nice blog by the way - very clean looking - I like it :)

[John84]

This is very borderline. Please let us know the results if you end up contacting google.