I can confirm with you guys that placing ads under a title is against Google TOS. We have been contacted by Google to place 'sponsored links' above our ads or move ads to somewhere else away from other content title. My advice: don't put ads under any content title, if you must, have a small text 'sponsored links' above the ads as well. Having "sponsored links" won't make your CTR went down too much (but it does go down a little)
This isn't a new policy at all. The rule has always been: The Inside Adsense post just clarifies that placing the ads directly under a title or headline can indeed appear misleading, so is against the rules.
glad I saw this post, I was about to use this ad placement as I've seen many people recommend it so is it okay to put ads at the end of a post?
The title of this post is misleading, actually. You can still place ads under titles, but they have to be placed such that they can't be confused with content.
Hey, just made a change and my CTR droped from 50-60% to 10-15% in one channel. Sad. But hey, that's life.
As long as you're matching your ads' colors with your content's colors people can still confuse those ads with content no mater where you place them. Sometimes you just don't notice the big "Ads by Google" attached to the ad unit even when it's in bold like in link units.
Correct, but Google is trying to specifically get rid of sites that do things like this: a heading that says "Top 10 Acne Cures" followed immediately by a large rectangle ad unit underneath and then a list of 6 acne cures... the idea being that the four ads in the ad unit are seamlessly made part of the "top 10" list.
Would this be allowed: Title 3 lines of text large rectangle blended in just border a darker colour rest of text (300+ words) ?
That's smart on googles part because before I got into the webmaster business I always thought ads were part of the site when they were under titles.
Yes, that would be fine, as long as the text in the first three lines doesn't imply that the ads are links that should be clicked. It's hard to make blanket calls on these things, it depends so much on the page in question.
I'm wondering if this and the fact about total blending is also refering to those text links/ navbars ? They can easily be confused with the actual menu, what do you think? Or is this just the large block ads?
Guys, i've been reviewing the adsense rules in here: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=17957 Now, Google Adsense team tell us clearly that we can blend ads. Period. Quote: "To blend, make the background and borders of your ads the same color as the background of your page where the ad is placed." "For most color techniques, we recommend using colors for your ad text and links that already exist on your site. For example, if the links on your site are all green and your text is black, use green links and black text in your ads as well." End of Quote. So, what it should be? No blend? Or Blend? I dont get it.
i used to put adsense under the title in one of my site but today after i read this i removed it and noticed drop in CTR so now gonna but adsense under the post
You can blend ads. You just can't position them is misleading ways so that visitors think they're not ads.
We cannot place ads under page/site titles ???????? Ex: "Welcome to my blue widget site" Google ads here Google ads here Google ads here Is this correct ?