Hi, Just wondering if this is allowed by adsense. If you click on the link bellow you will see just above the footer something like: If you click on google link you will get adsense search page results. Is this against adsense TOS, or not? Because I think he did some changes on the code. Click Here to visit
I think it's against TOS - not because of the 'Affiliate' labelling but because they have altered the search results page to include link units - that's not allowed.
I didn't know about this. I have ad units on my search results page and I will take these down today. Oops! PS. a google search box is okay on search results page, right?
'Affiliate' is the category title, so if you click another category you will get someting like 'Category name' search this on: Google... But I don't understand what you mean with 'Link units on the search page'. If you mean the sponsored links after clicking the Google link, i tought they where automatically displayed by adsense.
Sponsored links do automatically display, you're right. However, looking at this search results page it is clear that the code has been altered and it has been personalised. Ergo, it follows that the link boxes have been added by the site owner. As far as I know, this is not permitted.
Hey thanks for this thread because I have gone and done some re reading on the topic and easy to understand now that if there is no content, then no google ad allowed. Thanks for helping!
in my opinion , it's against the adsense tos . if it's your site , you must remove it . it may be a reason for being banned from adsense
Also, some more against TOS on that page.. putting the title Sponsored Links above the adsense ads there is no ads by Gooooooooogle in that ad block and for the affiliate link, I think he done in this way, he created a search box with his pub-id and searched the keyword 'affiliate' in that search box and in the results page, he copied the URL and back to this page he inserted the URL link to the keyword 'Affiliate', so that when users clicks the link it will go automatically to the resutls page, its defenitely against TOS..