Adsense location and banning

I will get my fist payment this month and i am afraid of being banned.
I have got a website and it has a link unit at top top header.php
and linkunit is placed between home and pages links
home-google link unit -page1 - page 2 -page3 i have seen many site use this method to get a high ctr if it is a reason to get banned i can remove
another question is i have got three column blog and in the middle column i have got an image for each article and it is aligned to left and my adsense box is align to right i know that images and adsense ads should not be together is there any limit or distance so I will not get banned
thanks

 

First, whether you're sticking the adsense code in your header, sidebar and/or content, make sure you limit the total to 3 sets per page.

As far as images with ads are concerned, make sure you place a border around the images.

Hope that helps.

 

Hello,

I'd do everything that I can to make sure that Adsense doesn't get confused with site content, site links or anything other than Ads.

You can try to raise you CTR by placing your adsense where those ads would be more likely of interest for the user, instead of hiding the ads and tricking the user.

I've seen blogs that only have ads at the end of the post where the user gets only after reading the post. It's the blog's owner job to leave the visitor looking for more so that the visitor click the ad.

Hope this helps

 

i think your banning has to do with the ad boxes blending in with the content. Just like Mike said.

 

thank you i have came across this pages , it may be useful for newbies
http://adsense.blogspot.com/search/label/Program%20Policies

 

Placement do not against the TOS. Only when you change the coding while make the placment

 

I do think a high CTR could get you banned. If a high percentage of your visitors click your ads it's going to seem like your site is a made for Adsense site which is against their terms.

 

% 8 is it too high for ctr and what is acceptable the highest ctr for adsense

 

The rules are very unclear with AdSense. This is just what it is...

 

i was reading http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=857897 and i have entered jimcarters website they tell how much they earn and it is said that they have no fear to get banned by Google. I use google adwords and when I email them They politely reply and give me support but When I send a message for adsense they just direct me to forums and adsense blog Maybe too much messages they got i do not know