Ads and image placement - The official word from Google

Yah lol... I just did it a month ago and was about to try it on my bigger sites....

LAME!!!

 

Why doesn't the Adsense Terms and Conditions say anything about not placing images next to ads?

Unless I'm missing something there is nothing in there about images.

The other thing I don't understand is Google just sent an email several days ago with updates and news about Adsense and nothing was said about images by ads.

If Google really doesn't want people to place images by their Adsense ads then they sure the hell have not done a very good job notifying their publishers about it.

 

Why are you arguing with what it says on the official blog?
I agree it was somewhat strange the did not mention it in the latest update, but if they have stated it, then there is no point in abusing it.
Remember, G control your account, if they ask you not to display ads, they kinda mean it

 

They probably didn't read the first post here is the google post about it:
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/12/ad-and-image-placement-policy.html
And also they are probably preparing an email to send out about this.

Thank you

 

if they are probably preparing email then it is good as many publishers may not know about this update thanks to dp as I come to know about this.

 

It's about time. I've always thought placing images next to ads is deceiving in nature. I wonder if this was reducing the CPC in the gaming industry. I know it’s too early to speculate but my gaming related ads increased by 2-3X today.

 

huh. Same referral link from adsense blog in few mintues . Thanks for the info. Anyhow I am not using images in the ads.

 

I bet that threads are being merged...

 

What do you think can I put google image ad next to text ad?
Here is a sample:

 

You can put images next to ads, but you can't if it's attempt to convey that the ads are related to the images.

 

What I dont' understand is that why a huge policy change such as this, is not CLEARLY announced and got CONFIRMATION OF ACCEPTANCE from publishers like they do when they change their policies on other things. Normally when they change something in the TOS, you login to your account and you need to accept the new policy before you can proceed into your account.

 

Well you have to understand not everyone was using the image thing. Only those webmasters in these forums or in the know were using it. Think about how many websites do you see that use the image thing when they have adsense.

Thank you

 

I see about 60-70% of the sites use images next to their ads.

When they change something in their TOS, it does not apply to everybody but they simply make you read through the whole thing and accept it again. That is what they should have done. Now think about the way webmasters would react if Google starts terminating accounts without any official announcements. Sure we read the news here at DP but there is a very big world of webmasters out there who does not read the adsense blog and never heard about Digitalpoint...

 

this clarifies that we can use images but not related images.
we cannot use a game icon next to a google ad in a arcade site but we can use some natural stock photos next to it. also a full border can help

 

Sorry but this is NOT true.

I have a site that uses unrelated images. I also used borders, distinct line between images+ads, etc etc. In the past, I have had 3 confirmations from Google that my site is compliant with the TOS for my various implementations.

Upon hearing that Google is saying no to images+ad units, I immediately submitted a TOS compliance check request to Adsense team. Within 24 hours, they replied. Google says my site is not in compliance and specifically mentioned it is because I am aligning images with their ads (keyword bolded). Google further instructed me remove the aligned images from my site.

After a long day of image removals, I requested a re-check and Google now says that my site is in compliance. Phew...

My advise: Don't inteprete the Adsense blog post. When in doubt, contact the Adsense team.

 

How many official words have we heard so far?

 

Naturally, because the recent Google cache of your travel site shows two designs that are of the same specific style of the two illustrations with noncompliant examples provided on the official AdSense blog. You can see your recent designs, before the removal of images, with a Google query of the type cache:example.com.

That is to say, in a design of your site, only a gray line separating -or rather uniting- images from unbordered ads. Like in the first Google's example. And, in the other design, an image completely united to an ad with the same exact background color, inside the same box and without any visible separation, forming an image+text ad unit. Like in the second Google's example. So, there are no borders around your ads, or a different background color, to make a distinction from nearby site images.

In both designs, it clearly looks like the images are part of the ads, the crucial point that AdSense Support has disapproved since a long time ago.

 

yes true man I too have contacted adsense team and they too said no to me about images next to ads so I thinks we can not place images near ads either you put borders or different colors

 

Does that mean that if we do not align the image, then it will be fine? What are the ways to "dis-align" the images?

I wonder if there will be publishers who try to "push the envelop"... (we all know images can do magic for CTR...)

Anybody with any luck so far?

 

Does yahoo allow images next to ads? If so, why don't people just do that? (I would myself, but I didn't get accepted to YPN.)