404 Pages and Adsense is totally ok!

I had another post before about this. I was 100 % sure that 404 and adsense where a NO GO AREA.
I was dead wrong. I sent 1 page that i mention before here and asked if 404 pages was ok and the answer was no it is not by most people in the forum.
The answer you get in most in other forums is also no it is not ok with 404 and adsense. I wrote 3 emails asking them is this website ok. They said yes and was very supprised. I sent them another email asking them are you sure about this and they said yes. And today i got the final answer.

Hi Anders,


Yes, ads on 404 pages are fine.


Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

Time to go work, anyone have a good template for 404 pages

 

thats good; but i'm already using adsense in my 404 pages. no idea why it shouldn't be used...

 

Why it shouldn't be? People could make millions of fake pages full of keywords and send traffic there just to generate revenue. I think it was good that they didn't allow it. I emailed them to ask them myself about it.

 

Yeah I am surprised myself, they state clearly in their TOS that no ads on any Error Page, how come they approved it??

Yellowberry.org, can you provide us mails you have recived from google (Unedited please..)

 

I even remember I read somewhere on TOS that we mustn't put adsense on contact and thank you. If 404 is OK then everything else is OK.

 

From the logic, if ppl got redirect to 404 pages and has nowhere to go, sure they will click on the ads, thus this will generate profit for Google, the main thing is PROFIT

 

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Hi Anders,


Yes, ads on 404 pages are fine.


Sincerely,


Leo
The Google AdSense Team



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Subject: Re: Other
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:14:28 +0700


this is a 404 page and thats ok ? Any error page is ok now then ?
Thats really news for me ! Are you sure????


Kind regards Anders

 

I got the same response too:

I guess it's okay now...weird.

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I bet they're thinking: "wtf, why are we getting all these 404 ad support requests suddenly?" lol...

 

This is good news I get tons of 404 requests. Doesnt there need to be some sort of content there to get decent ads though?

 

I'm personally still against displaying ads on 404 pages...but I guess I'll do it in the future...maybe not quite yet. I don't get many 404 hits

 

Duh!!!
Fuck google, I am gonna ask each and everything they state in their TOS, that we cant do.

Yeah Make your 404 page to pick a random header everytime from the database and make them like

O my god!! Mesothlimoa (or what ever it is called) ate this page!!!
OO my god!! This page has gone to take a student loan
OO my god !! The credit card expired of this page
OO my god!! this page required a .......
And so on.....

 

I found member have a suck website and i checked it out. I have a thisuck website but the old rules can not have adsense on suck website.
Then i found a 404 site and both are ok amazing i guess they sneak in changes all the time.

And i tried the student loan did not work

http://www.chatthailand.com/1

hahah

 

As i can see, it's reflected on your domains, maybe now they got some new features in ads serving algos, so good tho for mesothelioma domains.

 

Sweet Jesus I'm about to make a load of cash......

 

aha me too, but then we might come to another one dead point, account disabled due to nonsense CTR, bunch of 404 pages, so i will think about this twice before any action

 

It used to be against the policies to add AdSense to a 404 page, but they removed it with a policies update a year or two ago.

 

ok i am putting them on error pages

 

I had no idea i thought it was breaking your rules?

How about


400


401


403


500


Thank you very much for quick reply


Kind regards Anders

Hi Anders,


Yes, ads on any error pages should be fine.


Sincerely,



The Google AdSense Team

 

Um hope this isn't too dumb but are these "error" pages created deliberatley? If they are genuine errors how do you get ads on them?

 

Custom Error page/ Server redirect/ 301 / .htaccess / ...

Makes sense ??

Example: http://www.infosofts.com/web/blablabla