So I found out today that Google AdSense policies prohibit linking to file sharing and torrent services that are known to host copyright infringing material. Ad serving on my domain (a forum) was blocked for such links. The problem here is that the thread pointed out by them was a discussion around internet censorship in my country. An ISP blocking access to such sites. The thread had links to such sites of course. My question is… What am I supposed to do in such a case? Censor all discussions around file sharing and torrent sites? Or Google has issues with ‘linked text’ only? Would it be ok if I remove the links on these keywords? I use XenForo on my forum… Is there a plugin that I can use to kill links pointing to certain domains? Any other automated way to fasten up this process? Would this be good enough for Google to revoke the ban? Any advice would be appreciated.
When you joined adsense you agreed that you had read and UNDERSTOOD the terms and conditions, so this should not be news to you. Probably; just make sure there are no links to them. You have to remove all offending comment.
I see you also asked on Google own support group: https://productforums.google.com/fo...sense/adsense-basics-and-policies/32laAzrpASk You will get some good answers there
Thanks. I just want to know if killing the links while retaining the site names would be good enough for Google. Right now thinking about the best ways to do it on my XenForo forum. The forum is 10 years old so it is going to be quite a nightmare to find a good strategy to kill the links considering there are so many ways you can link to these domains that Google does not appear to like.