dang.. if you mean the lightbulb image next to the perfectly blended ads in the forum listing, i nearly clicked on one myself! very good blending, but that image so close to those ads might be a problem (??)
Yes I also clicked ad myself. I am not adsense expert and can't tell if this is ok by tos or not. I don't care anyway, it was just interesting.
Wow... A very tricky way to cheat users to click on their ads... But, i personally think that they don't follow the policy.
That is interesting. I too almost clicked it. Very smooth (but I think that it's prolly against TOS. I wrote on same topic today, diff site: http://www.pstut.com/ This one's better, IMO.
whether it's TOS compliant or not is not really an issue i think, because with such an integration where people will click the ads mainly by being tricked into it, the account will be smartpriced fast and hard.
I bet the CTR will be better if he didn't place the bulbs, so it will looks like a normal forum section. I think it's againts Google AdSense TOS, it's confusing its users.
I don't see how that is against TOS. I believe the TOS says if you put a header it must be "Sponsored Links" but it does say you must have a heading. Isn't this like having google ads under the first post of a blog?
lol copy of discussion forum wouldn't it be more good if remove bulb image and add on right (0 viewing)
nice integration. For the general people the bulb should work. People do not read . they gaze through.
good trick. I came across like this on a similar forum a few days ago.. but they werent highlighting the ads with any image.