Hey All, For the first time, I have received an email from Google telling me that my ads on a site I own don't comply. While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently displaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our policies. For instance, we found violations of AdSense policies on pages such as http://www.articlesonlove.com/singles/. Please note that this URL is an example and that the same violations may exist on other pages of your website. Publishers may not implement Google ads in a manner that disguises the ads in any way. For instance, publishers may not place ads under misleading headers or titles as this may confuse users into thinking the ads are actually site links related to that header. To avoid this issue, we ask that publishers use only "sponsored links" or "advertisements" to label ads. Please make any necessary changes to your webpages in the next 72 hours. We also suggest that you take the time to review our program policies (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies) to ensure that all of your other pages are in compliance. Once you update your site, we will automatically detect the changes and ad serving will not be affected. If you choose not to make the changes to your account within the next three days, your account will remain active but you will no longer be able to display ads on the site. Please note, however, that we may disable your account if further violations are found in the future. I have reviewed the site page and don't see the problem...are they saying that I can.t have "sponsers" as a heading over the adsense ads?? Please adsense gurus I need some answers as I don't want to get banned.
I can't find any problems with your ad placing either... Maybe the squeeze page that pops up is bugging Google. Maybe squeeze pages and pop-ups are looked down upon by Google. Label the ads as Advertisement instead of Sponsored Ads. Maybe that might help...
I'd change the headers over your ads to exactly what Google suggests. You also need to be careful about the ad under your article header. In some of your articles it looks like the title of your article could actually be the label for the ads (particularly when text ads show), which is violating the program policies. I think that the problem is that you have: ==== ARTICLE TITLE Adsense ads Article text ==== If the article text wrapped around one side of the ad (or if you had article text between the header and the ad unit) it would be clearer that it was different from the content. See this link for more info on the header issue: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-look-at-optimizations.html
So I changed the heading over the skyscraper ad to sponsered ads like they suggested. Google is still serving me ads so I am guessing that was it.
Thanks for the followup, interesting to get confirmation that that was the problem. And thank you for being a responsible publisher