'Click My Ads'

Obvious Adsense TOS violations are words/phrases like:

"click my ads"
"click the ads"
click, this
click, that
sponsor clicks, etc etc.


But are these violations as well?

"quality sites"
"quality websites"
"quality leads"
"quality website leads"

by the way, these phrases won't be anywhere near the ads - but on the bottom footer.

is this all legal?

 

You can only use

"Sponsors" or "Advertisements" !

And nothin else is valid I suppose..

 

Yeah. "Advertisement" and "Sponsors" or "Sponsor Ads" Only is accepted..

 

All of them are against Adsense TOS

 

Yeah, using Advertisment and sponsor wording is better.
To avoid violate adsense TOS

 

Try putting this >>>DO NOT CLICK THIS AD! ITS TO GOOD FOR YOU TO SEE<<<

Does this Violate TOS?

regards,

B.

 

READ the google policies & terms you agreed to corgi.

They say EXACTLY the ONLY writing you can have above the ads. Anything else may & will GET YOUR AD REVENUE REMOVED, and most importantly, dressing them up like that is STEALING FROM ADVERTISERS, who include many of the OTHER POSTERS ON THIS FORUM.

(Not me though - I'd never advertise on adwords for content, too many "please click ads" folks )

 

Any statement which tempts visitors to click on ads is against Adsense TOS.

 

The trouble is that being legal has nothing to do with it sadly. Violating your TOS can still be legal but if it annoys Adsense then you're screwed.

 

I'd go further and say any statement/image that draws undue attention to your ad units is against the rules. That includes all those funky frames you can get for your ads.

 

Got it...


But can you use:

Quality "Advertisement"
Quality "Sponsors"
Quality "Sponsored Ads"

?

or does those words, in regards to the ad links, have to be fully independent?

 

Here's one of them, G's TOS:

"May not place misleading labels above Google ad units - for instance, ads may be labeled "Sponsored Links" but not "Favorite Sites" "

If my ad unit(s) are on top, is, from the above example, 'favorite sites', allowed to be displayed on the footer...completely away from the ads?

 

what about a general statement on the site?

"Sorry for adding the advertisements, clicks generated by these ads are the only thing keeping this site alive." somewhere on the page?

 

Sorry, this would still violate the terms of Google. You are still effectively encouraging people to click on the ads to keep your site alive.

 

I'd think that Adsense on any site that talks about Adsense would be in violation, too. If the article on the page is about using Adsense and talking about how you can earn money when people click those ads, you're probably on the road to ruin, too.

 

If they are NO WHERE NEAR THE ADS, then what is the point of using them?

 

Thanks for this information

 

My experience if you want people to click your ad is just to have your ads blend in with your website. I don't put any words above my ads and they convert pretty good. I do not get it, why do people wanna tell the vistor that he is about to click on an advertisement.

 

You can put that text on your website any place you want. EXCEPT ANYWHERE NEAR THE ADS

 

You can do something like this


"You hate me? You want me to shut this f* site off Click on My advertisement"