I read this forum and many are talking about google automated email warning people about the images beside their Adsense ads. Is Google banning images near to Adsense ads? I believe google's spider is reading the html codes to find images beside the Adsense ads. I might be wrong. I and my friend had very similar templates and we use the same picture as images beside our Adsense Ad. The main different is the way we put borders to our images. He uses photoshop to draw the black borders and I use html code <img src="images/xxx.jpg" width="100" height="300" border="2"> to draw my black borders. He received the warning letter.... I have more sites of such format than him and I never had a problem. Is google spiders looking for border="" ? I wonder...
Can you provide an example of the type of images your friend is using that caused Google to send him a warning?
I thought if you put up a border between the picture and the adsense code- there is no problem. So your story sounds strange without examples.
Can you provide a link for this ? i cannot find it at Google TOS __________________ James Swimming pool equipment Providers and Suppliers Directory
when will people understand that a border between pictures and ads ARE NOT BORDERS AROUND THE IMAGES, BUT AN BORDER SEPERATING THE ADS FROM THE PICTURE........ and furthermore i don't know if google spiders it for borders or not, i havent received any warning and i just have 2 pictures next to eachoter(picture, and a 1 pixel stripe image) next to the ad..
That is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard, google spider has nothing to do with it. It's all reviewed by humans. How the hell would google spider know if the image is beside an ad or not? It doesn't!
it may be related with an animated image . if you use an animated image near your google ads . it's a ban reason. using images near the adsense is not a ban reason. you mut provide us a sample to give the true decision
It would take one millisecond by looking at the source code. The google algo uses AI, its not like they are using a spider generated by a highschool student
Still wouldn't work. You do realize you can place pictures by using text and just adding the pic src in the css document, right? You could also just make it a background so google won't recognise it as an "ad pic". Oh and it could also be an image that actually had to do with something regarding the site, and not the ad. How would the "google spider" tell the difference?
Yup, it's against their TOS. One should not use Images for the Google Adsense. But you can still show your ads as Menu in your site by changing the colours of the adsense. It's will look more niche to your site.
Ever heard of CSS? You can float your image or pad your image however you want so it wouldn't be anywhere NEAR the ad but it would appear directly next to the ad in the source code. It spiders the HTML code not the CSS.
May be their bot can make a snapshot of a website and analyze it as an image. I'm sure they got the tech to do it.
There is a bot on the loose, a buddy and me got the same e-mail at approximately the same time about very similar sites. Don't make me post the correspondence I had with Google
Hello, 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 zzzzz. Publishers may not implement Google ads in a manner that disguises the ads in any way, for instance, by formatting neighboring content to look similar to the ads, or by making ads look like games or forum threads. Additionally, publishers may not attempt to associate specific images with the individual ads appearing on their sites Such an implementation may confuse users who assume that the image is directly related to the advertiser's offerings.. As a result, we have disabled ad serving to the site. Your AdSense account remains active. However, we strongly suggest that you take the time to review our program policies (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies ) to ensure that all of your remaining pages are in compliance. Please note that we may disable your account if further violations are found in the future. Sincerely, The Google AdSense Team ---------------- To help keep your account in good standing, we recommend all publishers review the policy guidelines found here: https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=23921