Hi! I'm thinking of creating a google adsense ads performance script. Basically, you will be able to test different ad formats and color pallets to see which channels are performing best. Beside the usability of such a solution will i be violating any adsense or google TOS if i create and use something like this?
as long as your script does not modify the Adsense code in any way i dont see why it would violate the ToS ..
The only thing that i would be changing about the ads is dynamically controlling the appearance of the ads through the script for example changing ad colors and formats to see which are performing better.
Then it would be violating the TOS .. whether or not adsense would care about only the colors and formats changing, i would not want to find out the hard way..
well, isn't it the same thing as going to the ad sense control panel, for example picking a new color for the links, generating the code and taking the code and placing it in your HTML. This way, I'm do the same thing from a script. I already have the Google adsense javascript code. In that code, i'm just changing the google_color_link = "000099"; to say google_color_link = "0000FF"; which you can do in the code itself without going to the adsense control panel and generating the code all over again just to change the link colors.
I understand what you are saying, but the answer to your question is: YES - THIS WILL VIOLATE THE TOS - particularly, this part: Get permission from Google, and you'll be fine..
yea that would be the best way to go. I just hope that i can explain them what i'm trying to achieve and they don't misinterpret it.