After Adding adsense, my site immediately got canned

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by veracious, Jun 22, 2009.

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    I was getting 300-400 ppc visitors a day - highly targeted and highly converting. So I decided to add adsense and boom, no more traffic. The paid traffic via adwords immediately stopped. Anyone else had this experience?
     
    veracious, Jun 22, 2009 IP
  2. w3bmaster

    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    #2
    You are not allowed to use adwords for sites with adsense
    Regards
     
    w3bmaster, Jun 22, 2009 IP
  3. veracious

    veracious Banned

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    I'm pretty sure you are allowed however if the purpose was to arbitrage then I as the site owner cannot make money, but if the intention is content it should be fine.
     
    veracious, Jun 23, 2009 IP
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    Nonny Notable Member

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    My understanding is that it's allowed, but you shouldn't have any Adsense ads on your landing page because it will reduce your quality score (but elsewhere on your site is OK).

    http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66238
    You may not be intending arbitrage, but it may look that way to Google.
     
    Nonny, Jun 23, 2009 IP
  5. JulieV

    JulieV Guest

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    the safest to do it is not to use adwords with your adnses site so that you do not get into the murky TOS of Google.


    Just my 2 cents
    JulieV
     
    JulieV, Jun 23, 2009 IP
  6. uttoransen

    uttoransen Prominent Member

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    a clear case of arbitrage, you were getting targeted adwords traffic that you wanted to convert into adsense clicks... this is not just harmful to your ppc traffic but you are risking your adsense account too :)
     
    uttoransen, Jun 24, 2009 IP
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    tommygadget Peon

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    Go ahead and google "Adsense Arbitrage" and you'll know what happened.

    TomG.
     
    tommygadget, Jun 24, 2009 IP