http://www.guistuff.com/source.shtml?0036 whwn you proceed to download they beg u to click.... my god lookm at the guts...only webmasters will be interested in the stuff on the site and they want us to click on ads!!!!
they also have bunch of hidden text at bottom. i wonder people use black hat techniques and still hold adsense account with G
no no that is css/html mistake .... ... yep black hat seo ... again really too bad for them .... great site although
what u think thsts by mistake.... i dont think so.... they say clixk our ads at many places....bad vary bad
I've never heard of the site before, but it sounds and looks good. For someone with a such a seemingly successful site, I find it odd he has to sink to this level.
Well good site, bad site..that's not a question.. it's PR6 indeed.. really bad for the webmaster to make such a pity.. someone alert him, or printscreen the site and write an email to google.. I`m not making this, because I like the design too.. it's not a typical MFA site, anyway, it's bad..
Hi, First, to whomever took the time to submit the form on GUIStuff.com about the AdSense guidelines infringement, thank you. We were not aware that this was in any way against any guideline, and considered it along the lines of "please take a moment to notice our sponsors", something which is quite common even on strict, large scale sites. It's now been taken down, as we don't want to even come close to anything that might seem grey-area. However, going from that to stating that GUIStuff was using blank hat tactics, I believe to be a huge leap, in a very wrong direction. Take 5 minutes to scan the site from a technical point of view. All of the site's content is free, including the bits that require the server to run file-modifications of the fly. There is no signup process. The buttons and banners are, in fact, links (check out the 468x60 banner and 88x31 buttons, they're all content links, none of them are revenue related). That said, GUIStuff costs money to maintain, and AdSense has been a very convenient way of adding ads that don't pop-up, blink around, take ages to download, and are very targeted. I'm not going to apologise for attempting to optimize their performance, but what exactly here was cheating? The content-biasing text? Ok let's take an actual example: http://www.guistuff.com/guispecs.shtml?0004 On the above page, what content would AdSense have to work off of? Should we have added a paragraph of fluff-text just so AdSense would know what the page was about? Which leads me to - did you read what the invisi-text contains? (it wasn't removed, it was just placed within a div, you can see it by viewing-source and searching for "GUIStuff Generation Tools") It's the text from the tools page. It simply contains the words of the site's contents in a paragraph-like manner, since meta-text doesn't appear to work. Otherwise, these pages would be empty. After what I've seen some sites pulling off with AdSense, I sometimes wonder if Google has the staff to keep up with all the tricks people are pulling off. Mainly I'm referring to people using iFrames, and cropped divs to show part-links, or hiding the ad's content leaving just the title, making it look like an internal link. I see this all the time, plus the growing "We've found the 4 best ABC-related sites online" followed by a large rectangle and the google ads parts chopped off. And how do they get traffic? They advertise on Google, of course... How do you suppose that got under the radar? Just to clarify, this wasn't a criticizing port at all... I'm grateful someone took the time to let us know, we really weren't aware that the message on the download page was wrong in any way, since it didn't instruct anyone to click anything. It's the black-hat comments that got to me personally, simply because I often have to argue with others that we shouldn't even consider something if there's a slightest chance of it being viewed as misleading, all the while viewing so many websites stomping various guidelines left and right, and, let's face it, probably making a nice profit doing so.
With regards to the adsense, drawing unnecessary attention to the ads is against the google terms of service, you should have known that but mistakes will be made. About the hidden text, You look like you understand SEO quite well so you should know that hidden text in any form is black hat. If you want the search engines to know what your pages are about why do you need to hide the text, its clearly spamming. Saying "other sites do it so it's ok" is not a good argument. Yes, agreed they should not be allowed to spam, but then neither should you. You should realize that if they get banned by google its really no big loss to them. But as you apparently have spent a lot of time and effort developing a quality site, you should have more to lose.