No, lining up 4 images with 4 ads is not ok. You will lose your account. It was an old trick that worked well, but adsense changed the tos to deal with that. It is deemed to be misleading. Horny clicks convert very well, when matched with horny ads. Having one large image near an ad block, when that image does not have arrows pointing to the ads, etc., is not misleading at all. Email adsense with the question. I guarantee they have no problem with it. A-men to switching the site to all white. You really need to do that op. Your ctr will double overnight.
This a is great topic. These are all things to keep in the back of your mind while you're creating websites. Thanks!
:confused40 pages in one day, thats good going. relatively new to adsense one week. I dont fully get how adsense is posted on threads such as this, and how you can tell which ads are attributed to who? thanx h
I have made a white index page with black text that will go live tonight before i go to bed. I will keep you all posted on the results at the end of the day tomorrow. I am very curious about this WHITE PHENOMENON ! Tony ;~)
Just for your information, I just noticed that when clicking on the "models in action" link on your homepage, it has started refreshing the ads again. I checked the other day when you had changed it so that it wouldn't refresh and I could see that it was not doing it then. But now for some reason it has started again I am not sure if you are aware of this so I thought I would bring it to your attention. Cheers James
I don't see any problem with placing that image next to the adsense unit. However, you may want to send an email to AdSense support and check with them on this. That way you will be safe for ever.
End of day Monday June 9th CTR is 5.03% $ is $9.78 It will be interesting to see if the WHITE SITE really makes a difference. I will post the result tomorrow evening.
Cool!! Glad it's staying up there! I'm not totally convinced that white will make that much of a difference. Can we place our bets? I have $10.00 on white not helping it.JK... Besides the Photos stand out better on a darker (grey) background. IMHO
http://www.mandarichphotography.com/gallery.html you have placed atext ad ovet it. does it again go against tos:?
sorry if i'm wrong. mandarichmodels.com, it seems like make money blog for me than photography site. i agree if CJ007 said it against adsense TOS.
No I don't think so.. The text link ad is clearly above the image and in no way is misleading IMHO. Cheers James
Its 6:00pm pacific time and my CTR is 4.19% $ is $2.73. It doesn't look like changing to white really did anything. I am going back to the original gray.
I totally appreciate your opinion but my lack of patience is a virtue lol Just to bring you up to date. In the last 3 1/2 hours since I went back to gray my CTR is 7.18% and $ is already more than I made all day with the site being white. For now I am staying gray but may test the white again in a month for a week duration.
hey for your that model site you have again placed the ads along with girl model. does it not again go against the adsense TOS.??
No it doesn't. Its a photography site and there is nothing misleading anyone to click on the ads. No arrows etc.