If this isn't a violation....

http://www.sify.com/google_home_new.html

I mean come on, at least try to make it appear some what legit. If you want to see the good stuff take a look at the source of that page.

Some of my Adwords ads were appearing on that page over the weekend for a campaign where I have the content network on. Cost me about $60 in clicks and not one single person converted. My typical conversion is over 15%.

That site has some decent traffic (at least according to Alexa) so maybe they are a premium publisher. Even though, what they are doing on that page can't be acceptable for any level of publisher.

 

Yeah that is very weird...

Maybe the are a premium publisher, but somehow I doubt it.

 

Why people want to get their account banned is beyond me.

On second thought, I went to see their homepage, and maybe the page that GFC mentions is supposed to be an include or something. See the Adsense on the main page. But even if that's the case, the javascript keyword stuffing and ad format manipulation is really iffy.

 

They are manipulating the ads. Most likely by displaying them in a Iframe from that page. As far as I can tell the javascript, takes a random selection of text and imbeds it on the Google HTML page, for it to be included in the main pages of the site.

Definitely ToS violation.

 

>> Definitely ToS violation.

Unless they are a premium publisher with special ToS, which I doubt.

 

They are a premium publisher and using the by-permission-only custom ad units.

 

I figured they were premium...with an Alexa rating between 1,000 & 2,000 I'm sure they get a ton of traffic.

Are premium publishers are allowed to display Adsense only (no content what-so-ever) on a page?

 

That's a fairly good assumption GFC ... GoDaddy runs some massive GoogleAds on parked pages which we peons aren't allowed to do

 

>> Are premium publishers are allowed to display Adsense only (no content what-so-ever) on a page?

I don't think so, but I think the intent is to include that page via iframe on the main page.

 

I see those pages quite a bit. I always assume that was ok because most of the time there are at least a few other non-Adsense links on the page so you can click and leave without costing someone $. That's not the case with the page I paid $60 to have my ads displayed on. You either click on an ad or hit the back button or just close the browser all together.

Apparantly most people click the ad............

exam, you would think people who made it to the prmium publisher level would be a little more savy huh? iframe on the main page - I could live with that kind of traffic. Traffic directly from that Adsense only page though is another story.

Obviously I've added that site to my block list, but it still sucks that that type of page is apparantly ok for premium publishers.

 

Um, what's wrong with using SSI so you don't have to edit every single file?? There's nothing wrong with that page at all. Look at the index page and you'll notice that page shows up there! You don't have to be a premium publisher to use SSI. I got an ad only URL on almost all of my pages so for example I didn't have to update every page when I upgraded to Yahoo, and Google knows about it.

 

Nothing wrong with SSI.

The clicks I received from that site were not from the index, they were from that page that has nothing but an Adsense ad. Paying for clicks from the index would be fine, paying for clicks from a page with nothing but an ad are not, IMO.

 

Right, if they're going to do it the way they have it set up right now, you shouldn't be able to access the page with the lone ad on it thru a web browser, it should only be accessible when called from the iframe on the main page. Maybe Jenstar could comment on this too?

 

Exactly.

That page even has a cache in Google from 10/12 so it's been linked to before.

 

Yes, I don't see how that could be acceptable under *any* ToS.

 

Premiums aren't allowed to do that either... it is actually "AdSense for Domains" - formerly known as Domain Park - that is used on parked domains.

http://www.google.com/domainpark/

 

Sify has to be a premium publisher....its a big ..in fact a very big name in India.

Its a subsidary of Satyam ..India's 4 th largest IT company and India's biggest ISP.

BTW I use the site too .

 

Did you bother to read past the opening post?