This is not what I have in any one of my sites, I was just prototyping and experimenting with Google ads and came up with this idea. The screenshot is attached. The idea is this: Basically at the end of every article have a line that says: "This article is Part one of a 4 part series" "Stay tuned for parts 2-4" [Insert 1 Google ad] [Insert 2 links to other articles] One could also just have 3 Google ads underneath too. Why do I think this would work? Well, because when the reader is finished reading the article and sees there are 3 other parts left, and he sees 3 links underneath, he/she would presume those links are parts 2,3, and 4. Forget about the fact that I might need a border around the images for a second. Other than that, is there any shadiness that could make this strategy against the TOS? I'm not explicitly telling my visitors these links are parts 2-4. Heck, I told them to stay tuned, they ain't up yet =)
That is quite a clever idea. As far as I can tell, it complies with TOS. You're not asking the users to click and there are no pictures, arrows, etc.
Yeah, nothing wrong with putting at the end. Should be a better delineation between the bottom of the article and the adsense, plus of course, borders between the images and the ads.