Is mentioning AdSense ads like this harmless or not ??

You see, recently I've decided to not to update my old site-variants anymore (update with the new content, that is), so I am curious if having the note below on these sites' pages (i.e. not on the site displaying them, of course) might be considered encouraging visitors to click on the ads ...


The note say the following:

"/NOTE: From the site's update on 5.6.2006 onwards, this particular site will not be updated anymore. To be honest, I made few additional modifications on 6.6., 7.6., 8.6., 9.6., and further on 16.6. and 13.7. (which was the absolutely last update), but that was all just fixing old errors and formatting, and no new content was added. Optionally see the last "events-entry" on page "events7.html" (a short announcement), and the first entry on the "events8.html" page (describes all this in great details), however, the second one is located only on "still updated" site-variants. Anyway, this notice applies to Bravenet, Freehost386, Geocities, and Greatnow free-hosts, so for the current variant with fresh content head on to one of these three sites: 50webs, Atspace, Voljatel, which are the only ones still being updated and the only ones with Google AdSense ads."


See here for an example; it's at the bottom of the page. So I am interested: is this potentially dangerous, should I rather remove that part of the note ??


P.S. -- If anyone might be interested, the reason for more than one site-variant in the first place is described on my website.html page ...


thanks, tayiper

 

Google adsense TOS says not to have any thing that points out to visitors about adsense ads.
I would run that one by google adsense to see if it is okay to point out that those sites have google adsense ads on them.

Basically, by saying these sites are the only ones displaying google adsense ads, you are saying to visitors, these are the sites to come to and click on the ads.

 

Thanks much for the quick reply ...

Yeah, but what about the fact that these sites (with that note on them) themselves don't display ads at all ??


tayiper

 

Oh, and one more thing: what about mentioning that I've added the Google AdSense ads to my site ?? The particular page that mentions does this is events7.html page (see under the "6.5.2006" events-entry)


It says something like this in it:

thanks again, tayiper

 

The best thing is not to mention Adsense in any way. First rule of Adsense is to never talk about Adsense

Most visitors aren't interested in how you earn revenue from the site. They are interested in the content. By drawing their attention to the ads (or even the fact that you are using ads) could be seen as drawing undue attention.

 

OK, thanks both for the replies ...


tayiper

 

Unless your site is designed to review/talk about PPC or Adsense programs, there is absolutely, positively no reason whatsoever for you to ever mention your Adsense ads. 'Nuff said.

 

for your accounts safety if i was you i would remove it, wouldnt want to risk my account just for some text.

 

Thanks all for the additional postings ...


tayiper