While i don't normally bother about reporting websites for content violations, this time i am more inclined to do so. I just wanted an opinion. A board thats in direct competition to my site is luring members away by offering: a) ebook downloads(not hosted on server but on rapidshare) b) mobile phone warez contents(to access you have to log in and reply to the post.) again all links to rapidshare ~~the site is a forum which has other content also, these are specific sections. Just wanted to confirm. Does google actually allow you to post whatever on site if its not shown to guests? Or if you remove adsense from that section and show on cleaner sections of the same domain? (this is not the case on this site though, the person is showing adsense on those pages with the warez content)? I am delibrately not giving out the site url atm to avoid any issues. Wanted to confirm if this is a bonafide violation first. (or we can run the same thing on our site if it isn't)
Doesn't matter whether it's login-protected or not. Course, if it's login protected, how is google going to be able to display relevant ads? Check: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182&topic=8423 which pretty much forbids display of adsense in conjunction with content that you have described.
the ads in question are in footer of the page. You have to be logged in to see the same(although the thread titles are visible from portal so you know what you get on login. Actually i wanted to ask, from the tos,does google ban the domain as such from adsense or ask the adsense from the section to be taken off? Also do the google repz take the trouble to register on a site and see what they are offering or not?
for sure its not allowed to put adsense on such sites..as its illegal(under adsense TOS) but i did notice that a lot of times..people put adsense ads on such sites..but they could end up being banned..
If the site is reported they may. And if they take action it may be immediate banning. Sounds more and more like you're trying to see if you can get away with doing this?
I assure you thats not the case If you want, send me a pm. I will send you the url of the site in question. Thanks for the replies though.