The Adsense policy states that, "No Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages." Does this mean that you can't have ads on a page that just contains photos? And where they state no adult material, does this mean nude porn, or does it also include underwear photos? Appreciate the help guys. I'd love it if in your answer you could point me to an official statement that declares your answer.
A page that just contains photos will prove very difficult to assign ads to - you've got to have some text, even if it's just a short caption with each image. As for the underwear, I guess you've read my comments elsewhere on this one. I have known someone get banned for showing underwear on his site - not lingerie or anything remotely kinky - just men wearing boxer shorts. I guess it depends which of the AdSense team reviews your site whether they allow it or not - just some of them are very prudish.
the google team who check your site might assumed that your site one of MFAs (made for adsense)..no content only photo.. This is a policy regarding this that google has: A site or third party cannot display our ads, search box, or search results as a result of the actions of any software application such as a toolbar. Web pages displaying our ads, search box, or search results may not be loaded by any software that can trigger pop-ups, redirect users to unwanted websites, modify browser settings, or otherwise interfere with site navigation. It is your responsibility to ensure that no ad network or affiliate uses such methods to direct traffic to pages that contain your AdSense code. Accounts involved in this type of activity may be permanently disabled. They seem to be making it very clear that this is not acceptable behavior and are emphasizing that this is definitely a situation that could result in an account being suspended. Several publishers have reported being suspended for participating in programs that sent poor quality traffic to pages, so this addition to the policies seems to be in response to that, so it is clearly spelled out that this practice is not acceptable.
It might just be my eyes nizzam, but what exactly has that policy quote got to do with the price of fish? It doesn't say anything remotely related to the questions of whether only photos are allowed or about the level of nudity permitted.
Don't worry, I don't plan to. I was just double-checking as I have written a post concerning it: http://www.atisat.com/2007/02/08/google-adsense-policy-it-doesnt-apply-to-everyone/
Speaking as a photographer and web publisher... Photographs are most definitely CONTENT ! If they were not... there would be many photographers out a job. Publishers pay for "content"... both in the form of text and/or photos. Google does seem quite vague explaining what they consider as "non-content-based pages" ... but this term seems to refer to iframes, error, login, registration, thank-you, and welcome pages. Now the problem with photo pages will be what CountryBoy has already stated... no text will make it difficult for adsense to serve up relevant ads that will pay off. So, we just add some captions.
A single picture on a page qualifies as content. As long as the page offers SOMETHING, anything, no matter how minor, it has "content". The whole nude/adult material thing is kind of hard to define. As a rule of thumb, you shouldn't have any pictures where nipples are visible. Heck, I would go even further and say to avoid pictures of women covering up their breasts with their hands. If articles of clothings are missing, I would be careful. This is simply to insure yourself from some Adsense prude who may consider those things "adult content" or "nudity". Why risk it?