I have an online store selling shoes and would like to put Adsense ads on the site as well. The Adsense ads would show along-side my own items for sale. I'm hoping visitors will click an Adsense ad if they don't buy anything from me. Does anyone know whether this is against the TOS? Thanks very much.
Read Google's guidelines for adsense at https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182 You will get a better picture of the terms and conditions.