Hi, Can somebody please help me! I'm running a site of (funny pictures and funny quotes niche) and have a good daily traffic. My website is 6 months old and my adsense account is 2 months old. My main source of earning from that site is thru google adsense. I usually publish content from different sites. Copying pictures and title from other sites and publishing them in my site. I want to ask if this is violating adsense TOS? Pls assist me in this regard. Thanks.
That is definitely against their TOS, I have seen many people survive with it for years but once your site is manually reviewed by adsense team they will bann your site/blog from displaying ads on it.
Agreed with the above. This not only violates their TOS, it also violates copyright laws. You can try and let it run for a while until you get banned. Adsense is pretty strict, in fact, I think most publishers eventually get banned for one reason or another. Maybe you could let users upload their own pics and just moderate them?
I'm sure you can find an alternative income stream form this though. I can just imagine Google won't be happy with this at all.
Yes it will be a problem and it is possible your account might be banned before payments like many Pakistan boys before you. It's good that now you're thinking about it before the actual ban happened.
Basically I would first suggest you to read Google TOS everything, if you can read twice.. and just follow it. taking pictures from other website is not Google TOS issue that it will be your website legal issue if the owner of that image knows about your website and his property seen in your website than he/she might give some trouble. So always grab those pictures which are not copyright use and can be used for commercial and modification purpose.. This has nothing to do with Google Adsense Terms and Condition..
WHile it's agains tthier TOS (copying content), it's really hard for Google to check that because images are a lot harder to check than text.
you will get banned when you withdraw the hard earned money happen to me being running my site for months got my earnings to 800 then went to draw it out they banned my account what the hell