Are adsense ads placement in these sites legal?

Discussion in 'Placement / Reviews / Examples' started by waziuz, Jun 27, 2009.

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    I was just searching for something on the web when I found these two fan sites perhaps built by the same person.

    The websites are salmahayek.in and alpacino.in

    The websites have got good traffic and PR it seems. But I think their adsense ads placement is against the google adsense TOS. They have placed big adsense ads besides images which look deceptive. They look as if they are related to the image whereas it is not so. I know it is a good way to increase the CTR but is it legal to place the ads beside the images as in the site. I have low CTR in some of my sites and I know such placement can increase the CTR but is it legal and allowed by google adsense.

    I am completely unsure as I find them deceptive and illegal placement. I want to increase the CTR of some of my websites but I do not want to go against google adsense TOS.
     
    waziuz, Jun 27, 2009 IP
  2. cdl285

    cdl285 Banned

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    It doesn't look deceptive to me. I can't see how the ad placement violates TOS.
     
    cdl285, Jun 27, 2009 IP
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    It looks fine to me. Im sure the average viewer can tell the difference too.
     
    superrichguy, Jun 27, 2009 IP
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    no problems with this. I use almost the same placement.
     
    mole, Jul 15, 2009 IP
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    i would agree with the other responders here.. looks legit
     
    highintensity, Jul 16, 2009 IP
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    This placement looks like it will get a very good click through rate. He has positioned it so the "ads by google" is located off the page. So the ads appear almost like site links until you scroll down.
     
    dpoint7, Jul 19, 2009 IP
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    Placement seems to be dirtyy.. :s
     
    shozib, Jul 21, 2009 IP
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    The placement is pretty fine. Its better then i have seen on many big authoritative websites. If you want to check, go to some big news website which uses adsense, and see how nicely they place bits of adsense ads in between their news articles/home page, by making them look part of the news itself.
     
    CodeWorld, Jul 21, 2009 IP
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    Hi Waziuz

    It seems look nice,
    as other member says how the ad placement violates TOS.:)
     
    munibhero, Jul 21, 2009 IP
  10. waziuz

    waziuz Active Member

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    Thanks guys for the confirmation.

    If those ad placements are fine then maybe I am too honest a publisher. I have less than 0.5% CTR in many of my websites but still I never hassle around with ad placements to be on a safer side. I try to blend the ads but take precautions so that my ad placement are not deceptive in any way. Maybe I will also need to implement ad placements as the ones shown in the sites mentioned above. Hope that my sites with 0.2% - 0.5% increases to at least 1-2% with such placements.

    Anyways thanks everybody for the confirmation. I give millions of ad impressions every month and my CTR is good only in a few sites. Hopefully with improvement in my ad placements it will increase significantly.
     
    waziuz, Jul 23, 2009 IP