Kontera and Adsense - Google Response

Hello All,

I have been lurking for awhile on this forum but decided it was time to participate. I wanted to give everyone a heads up on the controversy about using Kontera ContentLink with Adsense. If this has already been posted please forgive me but I did not see it upon searching...

I emailed Adsense and this is the response I got:

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for asking about using the Kontera contextlink program alongside AdSense. Unfortunately, according to our program policies, Kontera may not be displayed on the same page as Google ads on your site. However, you are welcome to display those ads on pages of your site that do not include Google ads.

In general, AdSense program policy does not permit Google ads to be published on the same page as other contextually-targeted ads. You can review this, and all Google AdSense program policies, at https://www.google.com/adsense/policies .

We appreciate your cooperation.

For additional questions, we encourage you to visit the AdSense Help Center (http://www.google.com/adsense_help), our complete resource center for all AdSense topics. Alternatively, feel free to post your question on the forum just for AdSense publishers: the AdSense Help Group (http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help).

Cheers,

Alton
The Google AdSense Team

Anyway I hope this solves any questions...

Andrew

 

I still see a lot of sites use this two-ad combo, and they've been doing it for months now without any letters from either party...

 

Thanks for this info andrew.

 

Thank you andrewt for the information. I was about to ask G about this matter.

 

I see a lot of websites using both

 

I guess that would also apply to IntelliTXT then.

 

Everyone is using it together .... what is the solution ...

 

Like always, there is no solution for the average, hard working publisher. Big boys like John Chow sign up for a special CPM plan with these companies, which allows them to use Adsense & IntelliTXT/Kontera together. And even without signing a special contract, Google won't attempt to get the PR rulers angry by banning them, even if they violate their TOS. The don't have a reason to ban a site that receives over 3 million page views a month just because it uses Kontera or IntelliTXT, they wouldn't want that.

Allen.H

 

I have seen million sites use both and never heard of someone got banned by that.

 

I asked google this question last week and got the same answer - No just like in the email that started this thread. Took my Kontera down asap

 

Whether Kontera is paying effectively? Just now crossed $100 mark.

 

Hello,
I found this part of Google Adsense Program Policies:

"Competitive Ads and Services
In order to prevent user confusion, we do not permit Google ads or search boxes to be published on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout and colors as the Google ads or search boxes on that site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure these ads cannot be confused with Google ads."

I understand you can use both of them when they don't have the same color and layout.

Could someone tell me if I am wrong?
Thanks,
ameran

 

Please don't bring up posts from last year , and they allow kontera and other text ads now.

 

Yea this is damn old news i assume as its allowed now

 

It is not my fault. I was looking to find out if I can use Kontera and Adsense together and I found this Thread in DP. Then I was on page of Google Adsense and read all information and found out, they changed their policies. I thought it is important to add this information here too.
Don’t be sassy when you don't like some threads!

Thanks,
ameran

 

Hi Ameran --

My name is Jack and I am an account manager here at Kontera. Despite what one customer service person has written to you, Google's policy is very clear now (a big change from before) -- since Kontera's product is nothing like Google's in appearance, there is no chance of the user being confused that our ContentLink layer is from Google, so it is allowed. Everyone can make mistakes and clearly, the customer rep at AdSense confused our layer with other companies ad units.

Kontera is clearly OK to work on the same pages as AdSense.

 

Thanks for the clarification Jack.

 

I wonder whether having Kontera or intelliTXT will affect the google SERP rankings. 90% of my website's traffic is from google. I just want to make sure I'm always in google's good books. Kindly share your experiences regarding this.

 

johnchow.com -- Do i need to say more?

 

I've been using Kontera for a month or so now and it all seem good. There is an extra check at the end of every month and my serps seem to be holding steady. The only problem that I can see if that kontera does actually slow down your site. If your host is quite fast then it can take some of the slack, however if your host is already slow then you might be headed for some trouble.