Adsense on news site?

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by gyahoo, Jul 25, 2014.

  1. #1
    Hello there,

    Does adsense allows on the news site.

    Lets say a site that is gathering news from Yahoo news, but not full news, but only 2-3 lines (copied from news description) and then it gives nofollow link back to the original source site.

    Does Google allows ads on such sites?
     
    gyahoo, Jul 25, 2014 IP
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    billzo Well-Known Member

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    You are talking about a news aggregator similar to Drudge Report (or Google News), Fark, or many others. Yes, you can put Adsense on those sites. Look at DrudgeReport.com or Fark.com and you will see they are running DoubleClick/Adsense. But you do not need a nofollow link and, in fact, should not use nofollow as that is against the purpose of what nofollow was created for.
     
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    Agent000 Prominent Member

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    No you can't; it is against adsense terms and conditions to use them on sites that scrape there content from other sites. ... just read the guidelines!
     
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    gyahoo Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for your reply. I heard that you can put on such sites and tried to google it, but its not clear enough.

    Can you please support your say with a link or evidence? I'll appreciate that bro.
     
    gyahoo, Jul 26, 2014 IP
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    just go and read the adsense guidelines/terms and conditions: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/23921?hl=en&ref_topic=1261918
     
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    News aggregators are not scraper sites. The only content they republish is the headline which is considered fair use, so it is not copyright infringement. Adsense does want unique content, which news aggregators have little to none of. Copying the "news description" as the original poster mentions in his post may be too much and qualify as copyright infringement. But publishing the headline is not. And I don't see any reason for a nofollow link. That is not what nofollow was designed for.
     
    billzo, Jul 26, 2014 IP
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    Sure you can, even better you can curate the whole content and post it with source link back to the original site/article. So users read it from your website and may exit through source or adsense.
     
    gcalcines, Jul 28, 2014 IP