I always thought auto-surf sites were a little sketchy, but I didn't realize they were against google's TOS. Good to know, but hopefully, I won't need to utilize the info.
Think of it like this, when you deploy adsense in any situation would you also pay Google for that click as an AdWords advertiser? If you answer yourself NO, then don't deploy it. I have read enough threads here about banned from Google AdSense. In this case you got a break by being given a warning...your lucky . Google has the right to suspend your account any day, anytime for any reason. You sign off on that by agreeing to TOS when registering. Count your blessings .
I know it's not in the post above, but in addition to that, here is another line I came across on the net that needs to be added to the adsense code for testing purposes google_adtest = "on"; google_ad_client = "ca-test"; google_ad_channel = "";
Invalid Impressions is a TOS violation? Thats stupid, just totally stupid. i wont add this line to my code when updating sites, thats extra work. I look at my sites alot/day, since i update alot. I never thought this counts as invalid impressions.. This has to be a joke.. i dont understand the sense of bieng so strict.
I remember reading a case, wherein a guy was banned for using auto refresh code and showing false impressions..
I have a small webpage(about 20subpages, most with adsenseor firefox/adsense ad) in plain xhtml/css. Any idea how to save time and still be OK?
I've read where instead of putting adsense code on every page, they use a php script to display ads on all pages. So when they need to go to test mode, they only need to update the adsense code in the php script which then updates all the webpages. When they want to go into production mode, again, they only update the adsense code displayed by the php script. Do a search for php ad display. If you can't find it, I'll see if I can locate it, or perhaps someone else on the board remembers the name.
A lot of information content sites use the php as so much easier. What I want to know, with a html website and html pages, can I add a php code somewhere to do this for me? To create a php page is no big deal. Name it something like ads1.php and put just the google adsense code in that page. Then on the config file or index file, link to the ads1.php file.
Ok, thx for the tip. I'm gonna do this soon. I will learn a bit more here, make a list of things to improve and then implement it. It's gonna be huge update.
You may visit your site as much as you wish, G does filter out your impressions and it is not against the TOS. The only risk to visiting your own site is accidentaly clicking your own ad.
Either you're doing something bad, or one or more of your competitors is evil, and is trying to get you banned. I'd get on top of this quickly, because once you're banned, you're really banned.