Please take a look at: http://www.a-class.biz/testingads.html The top ad is hand made and I included the Ads by Goooogle text as well. Do you think adding "Ads by Gooooogle" will be against their rules? IMO If you have more ads by google text laying around the visitor will not be that much worried not to click on an ad ...
I think you cannot use it, probably because you're using google "trademark" in terms of ads or something like that...
I wouldn't put ads by gooooogle on it anyway as it just makes it look like an advert so quite a few people wouldn't click it. Also google may thing you have too many ad units.
Why would you want to add the "ads by goooogle" if they are not AdSense ads? That's a little deceiving and probably not allowed.
Yea I would think you would get one big email stating that they are Banning you. I dont think I would want to try it.
you cannot add ad by google because visitors will be mistaken and thinks they're associated with G. which is a no-no in the TOS. put ads by pixads as amit said.
"Ads by pixads" is still a TOS violation. You're not allowed to show Google ads on the same page as any other text-based ads. While what you intend to show may not be real ads, Google might think they are. How about just "pixads" or something along those lines? Is this for a site that will have all of its links looking like Google ads, forcing visitors to read the real ads? That is also probably a TOS violation, because it could be classified as a site that was "made for adsense".
I will have to disagree with this. A directory for example has tons of text based ads. If I have a few hundreds of pages and a links page with ads looking like this I don't think it will be a MFA site...
Check the official Program Policies or e-mail to be certain, but... I believe that you are allowed to show Google ads on the same page as any other text-based ads -- as long as the other ads are not contextual.
Thanks for the correction, guys. It looks like you are right about the "contextual" bit, but I've looked over the policies and found this about competing ads: We do not permit Google ads or search boxes accessing Google search services to be published on web pages that also contain what could be considered competing ads or services. If you have elected to receive contextually-targeted Google ads, this would include all other contextually-targeted ads or links on the same page as Google ads. This would also include ads throughout the site that mimic Google ads or otherwise appear to be associated with Google on your site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure these ads do not mimic Google ads. If you have elected to receive Google search services, this would include other search services on the same site and non-Google query-targeted ads. We do allow affiliate or limited-text links. I think the important part is: Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure these ads do not mimic Google ads. I guess whether this is a violation depends upon two things: 1. What is meant by 'mimic'. 2. Whether they are referring to contextual ads that mimic Google's ads or just ads that mimic Google's ads. I'd strongly advise you to contact Google and check whether or not your site is okay. It's better to be safe than sorry, right?
When they speak of Mimic they are talking about an ad that could be perceived as an ad from them. So if you designed an ad that looked like Googles, but in fact had a different name to it such as "ads by Cheato" then that would be a mimic ad. Also if you sold an ad to a website and their banner in some way looked as if it were part of Google then that would be the same thing.
TheNetCode, that's what I thought. So the only way this couldn't be a violation is if Google don't mind any static, non-contextual ads. I very much doubt they care whether or not it's contextual if it mimics their ads, though. It's worth being careful about.
Do not use the line "ads by gooogle" Trademark violation big time! Can just see the google lawyers salivating over some site using that!
I doubt Google would sue you for trademark violation before delivering you a cease & desist order. They do seem pretty reasonable about not starting unnecessary lawsuits. It certainly would be trademark violation, and it certainly would get your AdSense account banned, though. I'm betting that putting "Ads by ???" would also see someone have their AdSense account suspended, too. (as discussed above...)
So are you all saying that you can't have Google ADS and Yahoo ads on the same page ?? I have tons of pages with both on them, have for weeks and never heard squawk from either Google or Yahoo. But I had a popup ad one time and google emailed me the next day, fixed it and the ads appeared again.