Adsense shouldn't be placed under a Title , its against TOS

Just now i have read this new changes from adsense blog .......

1. Ads shouldn't be placed under a title or section heading in a way that implies that the ads are not ads.

2. Ads should be easily distinguishable from surrounding content.

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-look-at-optimizations.html

or is it just optimization tip ?

 

I think this is just optimization tip

 

I don't no I think it might be against the TOS, better safe than sorry.

 

Such placement is already covered under the Policies, ie, MISLEADING layouts.

 

Exactly what I have been saying. Perfect blending is not allowed.

Peace,

 

thats something new for me.

 

Google really are trying to get advertisers and publishers the best, at the end of the day Google are only trying to help people to make more money, and for business to get the best for their money.

I say this is a good rule to implement on Google's and its customers behalf.

 

still a lot of sites do it to get more click, there are more crap site than quality site and crap site care more about clicks than visitors. Look at this topic from just a few days ago, http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=762520&highlight=top the top 10 are all using ad in navigation position to mislead visitors.

and look at this one: http://www.surprise.com/children/11_to_13/guitar_hero_video_game.cfm , i put it in my mfa filter ... premium rip off publisher (scroll down onto their ad that look exactly like their listing content ...)

 

Lovely. I spent the entire morning rearranging my adsense blocks to go under the title.

Now, will have to go back and change this again.

Since 50% of one site is gallery, it was hard enough to comply with their terms.

Valkerie

 

It is just a tip. It is not against TOS.

Valkerie, I did not like AdSense either, and that is why I started using audio ads on my sites.

 

Than, is this illegal?
http://www.hizlibalik.com ?

 

Wow on that surprise dot com! Man, they have arrows freaking pointing to the ads. That's nuts!! I bet their ctr is killer.

 

Ouch! All my sites have Perfect blending.

Oh well, back to work.

 

Their policies change more often than my underwear.

 

You should change your underwear more often then

 

it is depend on what kind of the title

 

Your H1 I guess.

 

they are trying to save advertiser's money

 

there has been so much abuse in placing adsense ads, we needed google to enforce this kind of policy long time ago. lot of publishers have been going overboard with their optimization and blending. however, not sure this is a policy google is enforcing or just some suggestion.

 

It's a policy. One of my sites is no longer getting any adsense ads
because of this (as emailed to me by Google). My other websites are
unaffected.