When you have a 720*90 adsense block, and on the left and right of the block, make a small table with exact the same colors and layout as the adsense table, but with links in it that link to pages on your own site?
Well I know for sure you can't put any content into the side bars.. Your allowed putting relevenat images beside it, so i think it could be allowed. But personally unless your a starter, I wouldn't risk my adsense account like that..
I noticed this jst yesterday. I had a green background and the same color i used in the border and the background of adsense. But it was still showing another color. I double checked it. Every thing was perfect. But adsense was not allowing me to do this.
I want to put a welcome message and a thumb in on each side. On top of the bar, i want to put 4 relevant thumbs.
You could create the images on top, and sides.. But not have text around them.. Too mee it seems like youur faking adsense ads near it.
Looks good to me, but one thing most people forget is... ASK GOOGLE! They respond quickly and will even tell you how to optimize further!
Thats good mister, never post a live link to your page, just upload a screenshot and the good people will be glade to help you .... may be it's normal to do that, but It's better that you ask google as Art said .... but the whole I dea looks plain to me, you will destroy the layout of your page for an ad ......love your site not your ads ... thats if you really want to make money with adsense ....