I just received an email from Google that states the following... "While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently displaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our policies. For instance, we found violations of AdSense policies on pages such as http://www.karaoke-tutor.com/karaoke-recording.html. Publishers are not permitted to encourage users to click on Google ads or bring excessive attention to ad units. For example, your site cannot contain phrases such as "click the ads," "support our sponsors," "visit these recommended links," or other similar language that could apply to the Google ads on your site. Publishers may not use arrows or other symbols to direct attention to the ads on their sites, and publishers may not label the Google ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements."" After examining the page I cannot find any violations. Also, this page has remained unchanged for over a year without a problem. Any ideas?
The only thing I can think of is that they don't like the 'How To Record Live Karaoke Performances' title above that ad unit. Seems a bit picky to me, but they're a strange bunch those AdSense Googlers.
Someone in Adsense team decided finally that the way how you use their ads can mislead visitors and confuse them a bit, what is an ad, ad by google and what is not ad at all. Maybe you should just add more difference between ads and content parts, some borders or whatever. Additionally, that link looks strange - what is this for?
You branded your ads in the middle as "How To Record Live Karaoke Performances", which confuses the users that they will receive more info with clicking the advertisement and actually encouraging them this way. You should put the ad rectangle at the bottom of the article or in the middle.
That's definitely your problem...users are going to click those links thinking they are links on "How To Record Live Karaoke Performances", not ads for other sites. Put that title below the ads and you'll be okay.
using adsense at below the title is not against TOS many publishers are using it years back , i think he used ... > Free_MP3+G_Downloads Finally, you can download high-quality karaoke songs with music and on-screen lyrics! this is misleading to click at real adsense ads ... shuld Remove that or you will get banned soon.
No TOS violation but a Policy violation. I think labeling it as it is is against Policies since it's misleading. They are being labeled with something other than the recommended style in the Policies. You (well, the webmaster, anyway) says How to do something, and the links immediately below are ads...not good. Also the link below is formatted identically to the adsense ads so blending is a bit too good.
It's pretty obvious to me. Your page title is above the ads in a way that implies the title is specificially for the ads, and there an "Adsense lookalike" ad just under the real ads.
No, I am not banned yet. They gave me 72 hours to makes changes to the site. I have emailed Google asking for specific violations they have found. My site has been designed this way for over a year and they are just now mentioning violations.
Just because they didn't see it before now doesn't mean that it's okay. Its pretty obvious what you need to change, you have all of us agreeing with each other that it is the blurb of text below the ad. You deliberately coded it to mimic the look of the Adsense ad. And now you're honestly saying that you don't know what the violation is?
most likely it is because the ads directly under the header. misleading labeling. blend the ads in the content instead.
Change the title or move it bellow the ads and change the MP3 download part to a different font and colour, else you may face ban.
You should be happy, that you are still in adsense, not banned. Don't ask why it worked well before - just correct your site and don't complain.