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dfsweb: Personally I think you should seperate your Ads by Google from your directory entries. It is hard to tell the difference.

 

That's usually intentional. That way you get more Google clicks, often by accident.

 

Thats the point!

IMO its fully within the TOS and you would be stupid to change it

 

egdcltd: I hold that it is poor busines practice to cause others expensive by making the ads by Google look like your normal listing and then by causing people to select the Google ads and thereby "get[ting] more Google clicks, often by accident."

yfs1: With in the TOS? To make the Google Ads intentional look like links on your site so that you make more money by often by accident. Surely you jest.

 

I recently purchased an ebook that advocated "blending" adsense ads into your website (same background colour, text colour and link colours as the rest of your site). Reading through the TOS, I have to say I'm not sure. I don't think it's fraudulently generating clicks, after all, the ads still say Ads by Google. And, if Google didn't want your ads to blend in, they shouldn't let users change the ad colours.

 

I wouldn't hold that it is fraudulent. I just won't want some other business blending in my ad with there page and costing me money but "accident[al]" click.

 

I used to advertise with AdWords, but found it was costing a lot of money for a minimal return. If users do click on a blended ad, presumably they have seen something of interest in the text to make them click. This is designed to benefit AdSense users; whether it benefits AdWords advertisers I don't know.

 

Thanks for your comments Bob. I do (of course) agree with the others re the ads being advertised legitimately within the Google TOS.

I didn't do this to make people accidentally click on the ads. If you have another look, the ads ARE separated from other content by different headings like "Categories", "Sample listings" or "Free Listings".

Google provide the flexibility to change font colours etc. so that their ads can be blended within a website which is exactly what I have attempted to do here (Without doing anything that doesn't comply with the Google TOS).

 

dfsweb: Thanks for you kind answer. I of course was just expressing my opinion. I used ads by Google for searching some times and use adsence myself but I have grown to dislike all these sites that have ads by Google stuck where the true content of the site should be.

Just my opinion!

 

No jesting here..they are fully within the TOS

Not liking them set up that way is another matter but is a personal opinion. You would have to lobby for Google to change the TOS for these ads to be not displayed in this fashion.

 

yfs1: I guess I need to take another look at the TOS : )

 

Please quote exactly from the TOS, where you think there is a violation. I guarantee your interpretation is wrong.

 

if you want more n more visitors on your site then you shouldn't ask for reciprocal links

 

Yes, there's a difference between blending AdSense ads within the rest of the site, and having a site where the content just seems to be an afterthough to fill in the blank spaces between the ads. Anyone using AdSense is, naturally, trying to earn money from it, but it should really supplement the content. not be the content.

 

reciprocal links required = not free directory

 

ldmstudio: "reciprocal links required = not free directory"
Free vs Cost or Pay; reciprocal link required = free directory.

nidhi: "if you want more n more visitors on your site then you shouldn't ask for reciprocal links"
I think it is quite far to ask for a reciprocal link back. All a person has to do is start there own list of Free Web Directories and this gives them a link back. Most free directories than don't ask for a reciprocal like will either fold or go to pay directories.

 

A don't consider a directory "free" if it requires something in return, in this case a recip link.

 

CanadianEh: "A don't consider a directory "free" if it requires something in return, in this case a recip link. "
I understand that position but don't agree with it. Free to me refers to not charge as in money free. In the same way that cost refers to money not a link. These 3 are referred to as free, reciprocal and pay. I personally put both free and reciprocal in the free category.

 

Your lists would be much more useful if you seperated them.

Free is free, with no strings attached.