hello guys, id like to know if this is legal, i was thinking oh how is the best way to increase my ctr. have a website, and only thing on the site is adsense ads and nothing else, and generate traffic to your site by getting adword ads. id liek to know if that would be essentialy a legal practice, the way i see it, it should be fine. but im not sure. can somone with better knoledge advise me thankx in advance
I would suggest you read the AdSense TOS, this is not allowed and you would know if you read the TOS thoroughly. I think this question could be answered with common sense alone .
More the reason to read through them. I don't mean to be arrogant, but some people really do need to read through the TOS for things like this, it would tidy these forums up a whole bunch.
No, this would not work. The TOS clearly states you cannot place Adsense on websites with little or no content.
lol, that will immediately ban your both adsense and adwords account. But, this type of site exists and called MFA.
LMAO... not a good thing to do, even if you didn't get banned? Because with out content the only type of ads that would show on your page would be Public Service ads. Which do not pay you anyway as the publisher.. So essentially would be wasting your time!
it was really just a thought, well obviously id have about 5 lines of content for the engines to pick up key words. i guess now my better question, is what is defined to be enough content on a page to have ads on?
Use your common sense, imagine if you were paying for adverts and someone placed your advert on their page, how much content would you want on it. Remember this page has to generate traffic! Please post up your page which you have the Google AdSense adverts on when you put it up so I can report you to Google. People like you are killing this industry!
New AdSense Publishers Aren’t Reading TOS Amazing how we probably got thread of the year so early in 2008! Please read TOS.
@UKWebmasterForum u do understand that i dont even have ads as yet, and im only asking a question because i do not know, u dont have to be so mean about it, just chose not to reply. think about it for a sec, as an adSENSE publisher, what do you want, u want your ads that you have on your site to be clicked for you to make money, hence you do the whole ad placement tips. as an adWORDS publisher (person paying for adverts), you want more traffic to your site...hence your an adWORDS publisher, and bid on high searched keywords etc. i think ur under the impression that the only way to generate traffic is thru search engines, i have a few friends that generate about a reasonable number views on their sites, all legal, NO spammers, or bots. Search engines may be the BEST way to get traffic, but its not the only! Quote: "if you were paying for adverts and someone placed your advert on their page, how much content would you want on it. Remember this page has to generate traffic!" to answer your question/statement i will be speaking as if i am a person paying for ads (adWORDs publisher) as an adWORDs publisher, and somone placed my ads on their page, id want them to have very little content, because i want my ads to be clicked and no distractions to the users of that site. im not concerned as to how they generate traffic, i dont have a problem, because these google ads are not pay per view (as far as my reading has told me), and i will only be charged if and only if somone has clicked on my ads. for argument sakes, this site (where my ads are being published) has little to no traffic, but my ads are on that page, when they do get traffic, the only thing they will see is my ads and come to my site, as an adWORD publisher, i want people to come to my site, so id prefer my ads to be placed on a site with fewer distractions, if the only thing on the page was my ads, the chance of that sites users being reffered to my site will be higher, thats what i want as an adWORDS publisher, come on u must know about ad placments in adsense again, the way i see it, if i was paying for adverts, and my ads appear on a site with poor traffic, or on a site with little or no content, as adWORDS advertiser (person who is paying for adverts), i would be happer, because, there is a higher possibilty of people clicking my ads to be reffered to my site when and if they come to that site with little or no content. Remember as a adWORDs publisher (some one who is paying for ads), the point is to get people to come to my site, so if some adsence publisher puts my ads on their site, and they have NO/little content, but still have high enough traffic all the better for me. isnt google adsense all about reffering people arround the web? take a second to think about it... "People like you are killing this industry!" rofl, mate, as i said b4...i dont have ads im new to it..rememeber (previous posts)
Ad Placement AdSense offers a number of ad formats and advertising products. Publishers are encouraged to experiment with a variety of placements, provided the following policies are respected: * Up to three ad units may be displayed on each page. * A maximum of two Google AdSense for search boxes may be placed on a page. * Up to three link units may also be placed on each page. * Up to three referral units may be displayed on a page, in addition to the ad units, search boxes, and link units specified above. * AdSense for search results pages may show only a single ad link unit in addition to the ads Google serves with the search results. No other ads may be displayed on your search results page. * No Google ad or Google search box may be displayed in a pop-up, pop-under, or in an email. * Elements on a page must not obscure any portion of the ads. * No Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages. * No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant. pin pointing * No Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages. * No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant. rules are rules, one must obey, but in terms of best interest, adsense publishers want thier ads to be clicked, to they do better ad placement, adwords users want traffic, and leave it up to the adsense users to do that for them, and do not care about how they generate their traffic.
The type of site you describe in your first post is known as an MFA (Made For Adsense) site with little or no content. While they do send traffic to the advertiser it is traffic that does not convert well to sales. It increases advertiser costs without increased sales. Google is cracking down and banning MFA sites, to the applause of advertisers, and is also after "adsense arbitrage" sites who's intent is just to buy Adwords at a lower cost than the Adsense revenue-per-click on the landing page.
you my friend have been the most helpful person here many thankx very interesting information wow...i realy had no idea that was what happens... MFA & adsense arbitrage MFA doesnt convert to sales...had no clue AT ALL!!! i read a few ebooks and they promote alot of this adsense arbitrage, and i thought that was legal. no more ebooks for me!!! thanks alot tho mate id rate ur reply a 5 star if they had reply rating implemented
I hate people who create MFA websites, as a matter of fact, I wish them all banned As an Adwords publisher, is loses me lots of money (w/no sales). Peace,
PXShock, the type of site you want is against AdSense Publishers TOS. As earlier pointed out. Now... if you want a site like that there IS A WAY TO DO IT LEGIT. It's called "Domain Parking." http://www.fka200.com/domain-parking With parking companies you are usually not allowed to drive traffic with adwords, but Parked (http://www.fka200.com/domain-parking) allows it. Get creative and you can do what you wanted within the boundaries of all terms of service. For more information, feel free to PM me. This is one of my sites @ Parked: http://www.uzll.com Then you have one click landers @ ND: http://www.swvt.com Like I said, get creative and you can accomplish what you want to do.
@azizny now that i know what i know, id be upset too, i didnt know there was "good traffic" that will buy stuff, and "bad traffic"...i always thought adwords publishers just wanted traffic, and i assumed all traffic is good. Very interesting, ive seen these kind of sites before, but i assumed that the ads on it was the hosting company's ads, did not know they were yours to edit. i will certainly look into that. many thankx @ Fka200
i'm not even looking at the TOS now to know whether its legal or not. even if it was legal, that would not make any sense financially. adwords charges atleast 5 cents per click which is the lowest. some competetive advertisements will have 10, 20, or 30 advertisers or more paying adsense per click and each click costs sometimes several dollars depending on your keywords. it would be then a financial suicide to pay adwords to drive traffic and then count on adsense to make the money back, then some. after all, google is paying us adsense publishers to display ads and sharing the revenue. where do these ads come from? from adwords. so adsense publishers always get fraction of what advertisers pay for adwords.
lesson well learnt, one ebook said, he trippled to quadrupled his earings, and all his traffic came from 1000 usd worth of adwords, and profit was about 3000, so i assumed it might have been worth trying. well, it might be possible, if a user cntrl+clicks many ads.. idk..(doubt people do that)