judging from the reviews of my site it appears Google has an issue with any picture of a woman in a bathsuit? Any ideas on what Google really means by adult content?
They've been coming down real hard lately on any "mature content".. I had an animated gif of a woman getting spanked, and it was flagged by them.
Yup, not surprised. My site covers reality television, so naturally, I have thousands of pictures of the stars in bikinis and shorts in all sorts of poses. I also have 3000 posts. It's been a real effort trying to comply to this hardline. I don't mind, it's their company and they can do as they please but it's a bit distressing when you see sites like mediatakeout.com showing obscene material and displaying google ads as usual.
Google disabled ad serving to one of my sites over women in minimal clothing - there was no nudity. I think their policy should be more 'erotic content' - i.e. women in bathing suit on clothing website is fine. But woman in bathing suit pouting lips and posing suggestively - adsense disabled. After making some changes to my site, I emailed them and let them know that we were actively removing pictures that we thought violated adsense T&C's. I also removed ad serving from sections of the website where user pictures might breach their T&C and told them adsense would only be displayed on the sections where content was generated by site management (i.e. not user generated content). They kindly turned adsense back on.
It refers to things like pornography. If adsense catch you with porn on your website i think they might ban it.
I personally avoid any topic vaguely related to sex or sensuality whatever you call it. I'm on my site even stricter than adsense about that towards my members who are the ones posting content. There are so many topics other than sexuality (even the my first kiss topics) I don't want to bother with that.. You could make a section of your site for anything related to "how good looking she is" topics and then don't display adsense on it, display chitika for instance, ok the earnings will be less for those pages, but you'll still earn something from it and not run the risk of having the whole site ads disabled.. Well, of course if your site gets 80% of its traffic for those topics, then it's more difficult and perhaps you could wait until you receive the ads disabled email and then do like rockyg said. Worked for me in the past, telling them what I've done to make sure the problem goes away for good and they re-enabled the ads.
Thanks. I am thinking of doing that... removing adsense from pages with possibly adult content material. The issue is I hardcoded the adsense code so it shows in the header of every page. I'll have to use an adsense plugin or perhaps just forego my 728X90 leaderboard.