The whole "made for Adsense" rule in the TOS seems pretty vague to me. How do you know when someone is making a site strictly for Adsense?
if its about asbestos, or debt, its made for adsense. if its only got about 5 pages (or less) its made for adsense. if it has pages and pages of useful information that someone could actually use, then its probably OK
Google doesnt really bother about "made for adsense" sites , unless there is absolutely no content. Write a few lines on anything with adsense code.. Google is happy with it in most cases.
Don't mind Pete...see those red boxes under his name? That means he has a tendency to say things that don't make sense...
I make perfect sense, it's a fuckin' silly clause in the policy and needs rephrasing or removing immediately, because the vast majority of us here BREAK it and actively encourage and advise on how to go about building sites for AdSense. It's almost as silly as Google mailing my AdSense cheque to my AdWords address and issuing the cheque to a website name instead of my real name thus not enabling me to cash it, then not informing me about it, why it happened or appologising for it, forcing me to find out on here about the fuck up of the contextual advertising century. The red boxes under my name mean I have a tendency to say things that piss a few easily offended opinionated twats off once in a while. Pete
Spin it how you want. I think sites made for adsense are generally spam sites that have thousands of pages and are up for a few months.
Well I read in another post that taking pre-made content (eg. articles from sites like ezinearticles.com or goarticles) was breaking the "made for Adsense" rule. If I have an article site and all the articles were copied and pasted from sites like ezinearticles or goarticles, does this mean that I'm violating the TOS? I agree with Gadood. I think the rule is silly.
If you built your site for AdSense, yes. Did you build your site for AdSense? If so, you're breaking policy, as are thousands of other publishers. It's a silly clause, admit it. I'm currently building sites for YPN! and a few other affiliates programs, but I think I might end up using AdSense since I haven't been invited in to YPN! yet and I can't find any affiliate programs. Am I building these sites for AdSense? </false scenario to prove how silly the clause is> I think given that policy clause, Google believe they can read our thoughts. It's just silly. Silly silly.. silly fucking silly. Silly, and it's probably the reason why AdSenseAdvisor has ignored me twice on the issue in these very forums. Pete
I like that definition. But there is so much gray out there. For instance, a friend linked to a splog (SPAM blog) the other day. When I first saw the splog, it looked like a legit blog, until I did a search on the article title and got 10k other pages with the exact same content.
It's quite clear: Built for AdSense means a site built for AdSense. If the owner built the site for AdSense, he/she breached policy and could be terminated if Googles thought police department deem this to be the case. Pete
It's funny, I wrote a two-parter on this very topic earlier this week: What is an AdSense "content page"? The AdSense content game As others have mentioned, the language in the AdSense Terms and Conditions and the AdSense Program Policies is quite vague, and I believe it's deliberately so to give Google a lot of wiggle room.
Basically "built-for AdSense" is a combination of two things: The site is built for the sole purpose of targeting high paying keywords to generate top revenue from displaying high paying Adsense ads. The site contains no real content/scraped re-hashed content. Something akin to having one or two totally keyword stuffed paragraphs or sentences and the rest of the page filled with AdSense ads Most webmasters are more or less quilty of the first part, but in my eyes the second part is what makes the real distinction. I consider it acceptable to create a useful site targeting profitable keywords as long as the site has relevant unique content, that actually provides visitors with what they are looking for. I dispise the second type of site, basically because it degrates the value of the web, frustrates users, and make it harder to find decent information.
If the definition is based on intent, then it cannot possibly be clear. Unless, of course, the owner documented his intent, which would be extremely rare.
I actually see too many websites made for adsense targetting the highest paying keywords but they do stuff to fool google. only a adsense expert would know whats is going on..
Google does a great job of banning these guys before they get a cent. Right now, it's very fashionable, but once they realize that they never get any real money, the Adsense splogs will slowly disappear. I hope.