Is PTC Advertising Ok with Adsense TOS?

I am using PTC (Paid To Click) sites to advertise my sites. Please tell is it violation of Google Adsense TOS?

 

Yes, there isn't any problem in using PTC advertising along with adsense.

 

You will be fine so long as the traffic they are delivering is diverse enough and it doesn't lead back to their program. I think if google found the source of your traffic to be just that program, you will have an issue.

Bottom line is.. its generally considered unethical. Someone else wrote about this not to long ago.. you can see the full story here on Unethical Web Marketing

Hope this helps

 

It is not an ethical practice. How do you feel if some one with no intention of buying your products clicks on your AdWords ad and you have to pay for that? How do you feel if your web host pounds your site using bots and collect money from you for bandwidth?

 

PTC Ads are ok unless it comes from any Pay to Surf sites..

 

OK Thanks all for your replies!

 

are you sure? does PTC ads here means like bux sites??? im still not sure about it, because the traffic and it will show our sites in a frame...

well I guess I wanna ask too about some PTC/bux sites, because im not sure for it yet, for sample, can I advertise my site on ptc/bux or something else like that?

 

How about reading the AdSense TOS? It clearly states, you may not click on your own ads and you may not ask somebody else to do it. Not even by proxy.

Seriously, what do you think the purpose of banners is? Do you think advertisers hand them out, because they have so many of them and can't click them all by themselves?

The money, they pay you (the publisher) for the clicks comes out of the product sales, the bannerclick (hopefully) initiates. If people click without buying... ... Well, I think you get the idea. Maybe read this article for some insight: http://www.onyxbits.de/node/57

 

If there is adsense on the page your advertising, then you'll likely be banned if Google finds out.

 

I don't suggest you to use PTC traffic for your AdSense site.
PTC sites themselves got banned from AdSense and not a
single PTC site has AdSense on them.

So, its not good to have AdSense on the sites advertised by them.
Better stay away from these kind of risky things

 

There's not a problem with Adsense TOS with you using PTC to advertise your site.

The real question is why would you?

PTC traffic has a 0% conversion rate.

 

Well I guess Its better for me not to try it. Because I never see any PTC Site using adsense and never see any PTC ads using adsense too...

 

Hi,
According to me, I think this is perfectly fine as far as you dont ask your visitors to click on the google ads. Their guidelines say that you can not promote your users to click on the ads. If you just place the ads on the PTC program website, but don't ask the guys to click on it in any way, you should't have problems!

Thanks

Jyot

 

Well do you mean just having it in a advertising spot or actually giving someone the $.001 to click it? There is a big difference.

 

Of course this is against the Adsense TOS. This would qualify as click fraud.

 

This is what they somthing called arbitrage. Surely it's 100% against TOS. But peoples are using it to make a huge with adsense.

But it is unethical...

 

I think this can help you: Google adsense: Defining invalid clicks and click fraud

 

PTC advertising is not allowed,it is 100% againts google 's TOS.

 

Yes, it is againts adsense TOS. Adsense do not allow advertise your website on PTC or traffic exchange site.

 

And according to the AdSense TOS it is a perfect reason for banning. What do you think the P in PTC stands for? Giving someone money (no matter if directly or by proxy) is asking him/her to click. Also I might add, that people participating in these PTC schemes visit a lot of websites and click a lot of ads. Considering that every click on an AdSense banner is recorded and tracked via cookies, how difficult do you think it is for Google to a) identify those people and b) identify sites that bought such traffic?