Adsense, Common Mistakes and TOS

The Following articles was originally published on May 24th, 2005, but advice is timeless

 

Great read, thanks for posting. I know a lot of people seemed to be getting their account banned recently, this is a grea article for newbies.

 

Highly recommended for beginners.

 

thanks for the info

 

Here's one common mistake by Adsense noobs: Thinking you are smarter than Adsense and can get one "over" them.

 

can an adbrite ad be on the same page as an adsense ad?

 

This should be the same page not same site.

 

Use the search function. This queston has been asked and debated thousands of times.

 

Absolutely right Jack.

And running other contextual advertising along with AdSense is another common mistake.

 

good tips to follow. Although most of them are there in the Adsense TOS. Most of us are not used to read all those text..

 

Nice read .. thx

 

You can run Text Links Ads with Adsense.

 

nice guidelines..... thanx

 

Thanks for the article.
Though I knew all of them , it’s a good practice to read them on regular basis.

 

this is so truee

No matter what ever strategy someone comes up with for tricking with Adsense, Google will surely find you out

 

That's right!

In the long run sometimes we forgot the basics about AdSense and other web matters

 

I wasn't aware that they finally updated the TOS with this. Is this officially in the TOS that you MUST add borders?

 

There are some inputs about this matter in another topic where I provided a link to an online free AdSense Template Generator, in which you can see how images are integrated with borders to differentiate advertisement.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=138366

 

Some of those are good ideas, but I wouldn't use a few of them as they clearly violate the TOS.

Secondly, I'd opt for code using div/css instead of tag ssssssoup!.. yuk =>

div#h {width:100px;margin:auto}
#h h1 {font-size:16px;font-weight:600;font-family:verdana,arial}

<div id="h"><h1>Hexed</h1></div>

 

Indeed, div is as good option to keep cross-browser compliance.

About TOS violation, doing a research you will find that most sources agree with using images to increase CTR, while you don't use them to mislead visitors:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=using+images+adsense

However, nobody better than Google Staff to say the last word regarding your particular concerns. I recommend you contact them for clarification