1) Could be against Google's policies... I really don't know for sure though 2) I'm going to guess that having unrelated content jammed into the bottom of every page is going to make your site look spammy, and at the very least tacky. Most people will probably leave after viewing one page once they decide it's spammy, never to return. 3) This might hurt your search engine placement for whatever your site is really about. 4) This might put you in search results for Credit Equity and Student Loan information, yet anyone who clicks to travel to your site won't see that article since it's at the bottom and will just leave. Not that this will matter, it sounds like the article isn't there to provide content, it's just there to fill the page with keywords and will be void of substance anyway. 5) Unless you write the articles yourself, you're probably going to get hit with a duplicate content penalty. Even if you do write them yourself, there are so many articles written about those subjects, that unless you're knowledgable enough that you can stray from generalizations, it might be similar enough to others that you could get hit with the penalty anyway. Really, you're trying to manipulate the system. Instead of going to these efforts to make it appear legitimate, you may as well keyword spam the bottom and hide the text to be the same color as the background. It's going to have the same result with the same short term benefit, and same consequence and long term effect as soon as Google catches on and removes you from their index, and maybe even bans your adsense account. Listen to what everyone else is saying. Really. Instead of putting all this effort into defeating the system, spend your energy optimizing your site with better ad placement for a better click-through rate, or developing a new website around a different topic.
I would'nt recommend trying to fool Google! As others have said it is la BAD IDEA! There is even a forum of people who have tried to fool google and are now BANNED! I did a search on google "adsense banned" here are the results! FYI Results 1 - 10 of about 906,000 for adsense banned . (0.12 seconds OUCH!
http://www.google-adsense-sucks.com/ You can see hundreds of people bitchin that google banned them, and they are now uniting for a Class action Lawsuit
Maybe adwords users will unite for a class action lawsuit against them? Maybe people want to gripe, but at the end of the day they should read the TOS and if they didn't then they only have themselves to blame... so they should complain at themselves for lack of common sense. http://www.google-adsense-sucks.com/viewtopic.php?t=50 http://www.google-adsense-sucks.com/viewtopic.php?t=24 Just two examples of much stupidity to be found in there. Wanting to check the ad due to customer visitor complaints is a poor excuse ... the publisher could simply copy and paste the site's url.
Well, first look into that forum, and i saw all sorts of ads from different ad brokers, It was easy to guess the motivation that led to the birth of that forum, The webmaster himself was banned from adsense and he thought about making money from alternatives and hehehe, rest all as we know is history
I will be the first to admit that there are those that have been banned for doing nothing wrong. It does happen. However, the majority of them most likely 98% of them are banned legitimately. I have never saw that forum that was metioned earlier, but I am sure that most of them were banned for the right reasons.
If you are still convinced that your method is ok after reading all the above replies, email google & ask them.
Always the best thing to do. And he could also provide us with a link to his site so we can review it for him.
Belive it or not, I did fool google! My X resource site, changed ads just adding a debt consolidation article in the bottom of my site, the article is fully readable to the visitors, so I dont think google will have anything they could say to this..
I mean.. Google cant ban a person for adding a article to his site?!? Even if its related to the sites content or not.... Thats exactly what I have done, do you still think I have done anything illegal? 1 small article was enough to get better paying keywords
If you really believe there's nothing wrong with it then why don't you ask google to review it then? Surely you won't get banned if you're sure it's not against the TOS and google can't ban you, right? EDIT: Frankly, what you're suggesting not only violates adsense TOS but also webmaster guidelines and would get you booted out of google's index if they human reviewed it. If you don't believe me, then read the webmaster guidelines and Matt Cutt's blog. He covers this kind of spam a few times.
If and I state If strongly, your site were a general content site then you would be well within your rights to put what content you want on the site. Even so you are well within your rights to put what you want on your site anyways, but remember this: If Google audits your site to see if your site matches the ads that are being delivered and they find that you have placed content that is about Mesothelioma on lets say a gaming site. Do you really think they are going to just shrug this off and let your account stay active? No they wont. The reason they wont is that they have an obligation to thier advertisers to make sure that their ads are being shown to the most relevant audience possible. Oh and btw they do conduct reviews of sites. You may not get audited today or tomorrow or next month, but guaranteed you will be audited sooner or later. You might even have a visitor that reports your attempt at "fooling Google" as you so mildly put it, to the Adsense Reps and then you get banned even sooner. Hey it is your account. Go ahead and do what you want. Just do not come whining about it to us when you are banned.
And to the $$$ side of this, Dont you think the visitors that will come to your site are actually for your site's main content, and why would they be interested in your debt consilidation article . So, they won't interested in the ads too, that means low ctr and high cpc, and in the end total revenues can be lower too . So, this will just harm your earnings at the end of the day , because you'll be providing non sense content to your visitors
It doesn't matter. His account will be banned when it comes to audit time, if not sooner. I am curious how long it takes from making a report to a ban. I've set the timer so I hope to find out soon.