I was doing little surfing and I landed to a site called "Insider Pages". After I checked few pages around, I noticed that this site did not care about shit of Google Guidelines for Adsense publishers. Or is it that Google does not care them breaking the rules? Or does Insider Pages have different rules? What I found was: 1. Too many ads on one page. I counted seven times "Ads by Google" on one page. Seven times "Ads by Google" means seven ad units. In my guidlines they talk about three ad units, so that is more than double. 2. Very misleading ad placement. OK, they did not have any pictures, but if three first lines in the search results are Google ads with same look and feel as the actual results, isn't that misleading. And two lines after results. 3. The Google ad script was very, very, very different than the script I get from my adsense account. Line that says "SearchPage.options.google_ads_wanted = 14;" is heavy. 14 ads wanted! Why doesn't my account give those options? Or are they (at Insider Pages) modifying the Google Adsense script, which is a very no-no-thing to do. 4. Adsense program policies says "Publishers may not label the ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements." This includes any text directly above our ads that could be confused with, or attempt to be associated with Google ads." In my eyes "Local Offers" or "You might also try..." does not spell as "sponsored links" or "advertisements". If you dont beleive me, check these pages: http://www.insiderpages.com/b/14340495094 and http://www.insiderpages.com/s/MN/Minneapolis/AutoGlassReplacement
OK, now I start to understand. This was the first time I've heard about premium publishers. More than 20 million page views per month. It's a long way from my 65.000 monthly page views, but I will be there some day.
I wish you would be there but its really very harder to get this, once you got this, you will get a lots of options which regular publisher don't have Good luck for you
One of my sites actually meet their Adsense's 2 million requirement for PP, but I've never bothered to apply. Don't know why, but it just doesn't seem that necessary to me. Besides, I run YPN on this site anyways. Adsense just doesn't pay as much as it used to...
Aparently they are. Since google has good mechanisms to make sure only three adblocks appear on a page, even if more code for adblocks is present, I don't see why the same would not be true for premium publishers. So if you see 7 blocks, they are allowed those 7 blocks.
The number of ads you have on your site, for a premium publisher, depends on what they wanted in the first place, and negotiate for. Everything is open to negotiations. PP sign a contract that is custom fitted for them.
lol you think this is bad you should see some of the dodegy stuff bebo.com gets up to they think they are un-touchable!!!
The big problem with these types of ad saturated pages is that they have little of value when it comes to original content; in most cases you can't help but click on an ad which is just what the publisher hopes happens.