against TOS?

i came across a very popular tutorial site today... hmm they had that text just side by side with their google ads

"Please Visit Our Sponsors:

Sponsorship provides financial support for our community."

hmm against TOS, right?

 

Correct - against the TOS.
The obvious inference is that the ads should be clicked to earn cash for the publisher.

 

but this a very solid tutorial site which has been running for years now!!!

 

If they're a premium publisher they'll probably be okay. Ordinary John Doe on the street, no.

 

they probably are then..hmm what's premium publisher anyway???

 

Publishers who bring in oodles and oodles of money for Google. Not too sure on the exact details, but their rules are more flexible.

 

Huge websites with like over 20 million PV's a month.

 

ah ok thx for the info..

 

Absolutely Against The TOS.
Wait for penalization of the website or disabling his adsense account....

sandy seo

 

this website have been running for years now!!! and it's a pretty good website too..don't really mind if it is against the TOS as long as the website keeps running..

the site's been running since 2002 and has 10,017,340 visitors!

 

Which site is it? Would like to see what the actual issue is.

 

Yep, would love to see the site/issue.

 

Ah, but how long has it had adsense on it?

 

Please show the name of the site. It is interesting that sites can get better terms out of Google. And rewrite their TOS....