Well i was working for some time on my site accessdir.com which is not launched yet I wanted to make a layout fully in css with some cool adsense blending and i rendered this hxxp://img408.imageshack.us/img408/8062/adsenseblendpd7.jpg replace xx with tt in link ( New member, cant post live links yet ) Now i want opinions if you think its a good adsense blend which does not break any Adsense TOS? lol and yeh if anyone gets confused....i want to inform that only 3 of the blocks are real google ads
Let me post the pic up: It kind of looks decieving.. how the other blocks are similar to the adsense ads.. with the "ads by ___" text.. However I've seen so many myspace turnkey sites with a similar format.. I would remove the "Ads by" (non adsense ones)... It's best to contact adsense about it (it wouldn't hurt) because I had a link similar to the adsense block and had to remove it.
It looks ok to me if you remove that other text, but would you take my (or any other) word for it? btw, that pic was 5.27am.... you are over doing it mate James.
Well i certainly will Lol not over doing, actually i m on University Holidays so just putting little of my efforts in web designing i work almost 20 hours daily on web designing
you better check with Gsense..coz it looks deceiving to me..but afterall we r webmasters we see everything from a spy angle
I'm almost certain this came under the 'not allowed' definition, perhaps about the same time as the 'no deceptive pictures next to ads' rule came in. Can't remember exactly where I read it but I'm 99% sure it's not allowed.
ummm sad for me then ok ppl atleast gimme some ideas what shud be the frontpage of a proxy site shud be like ? which ad banners shud i use and how shud i blend them without breaking any stupid TOS :S
Dj_Flush, I have made the same thing before and then asked permission from Google. And they said it was ok. But after 2 days, I received another e-mail asking me to change it as it is against their policies as it is deceiving your visitors.
well i have made up my mind already to drop the idea so i must get going and look for some better blending option
2 ways that I can think of: 1.) Not legal: use javascript and css 2.) Legal: achieve 1,000,000 page views monthly and apply as a premium publisher
If you want to last longer your second go-around with Adsense and not get banned YET AGAIN, you would be wise to understand that "blending" doesn't translate into "treat your visitors like they're brain dead morons and get them to click on as many ads as possible".
wow first time ive heard of these premium publishers.. I guess i must have noticed them on youtube and gmail.. even Digitalpoint don't seem to be premium publishers tho so i doubt ill be getting there any time soon.. anyideas where i might find an example of the illegal javascript/css method? just for researchertive purposes of course.
the css method is easy ..... i dont wana encourage any illegal activity but ofcourse u could use a float propert to hide "Ads By Google" or Z axis in layers
glad you decided against it... your page looks very close to what google says not to do here (the second picture): http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/12/ad-and-image-placement-policy.html