I was wondering what your take is on using AdWords to send traffic to your AdSense sites. I always get the $100 coupon to start an AdWords account, but I'm wondering if there is a conflict of interest, because you are using the service to send the traffic that you are paid for. Let me know your thoughts. : )
Ever since it started, Google AdSense prohibited adult content. Explicit nudity, for example, was (and is) way beyond Google’s terms of service. But of course, there is a lot of content that is bordering on the mature content line. In fact, some webmasters play the gamy of trying to get more page views by intentionally bordering on that line. I suspect, they get their revenue from advertisers who are also close to violating the AdWords TOS. AdWords, too, prohibits explicit ads.
So you think you found a way to outsmart google. Well, congratulations. Search around here on the forum just a little and you will find hundreds of others who also thought of exatcly this little scam. They are all either banned or have their sites removed from the adsense program. Do you really think Google gives out those $100 coupons just for fun? No, they are a simple and cheap way of attracting new clients into the Adwords program. Google for certain has covered there base of rouge people trying to scam them in this very easy way. Do things right and you will earn a lot more in the end.
I would hardly call arbitrage a scam. It is, however, a bad user experience, and Google will weight your cpc so that you can't profit from it. They won't ban you - they just either won't run your ads at all, or only run them at a cost that's prohibitive