Hi. I have an adult site, that I once put google ads on and they removed the account because of the adult content. Since they were allowing me to use Adwords I assumed adsense was fine too. Whoops. Anyway, the adult site that I launched in August 2006 now has more than 50,000 members with a lot of traffic. I am creating a site that is completely family oriented, no adult content. However since I have so much traffic on my adult site, I'd like to put a banner on the adult site so that I can use some of my existing traffic to jump start a new G-rated venture. My question is will google have a problem with my g-rated all audiences site if my traffic is coming from my xrated site? I searched but didn't find my answer. All clicks would be completely legitimate, I'm just going to put a banner up on the adult site with traffic since I can. I was thinking that as a last resort I could always put banners up, etc. on the site and when I build up a nice user database, I can stop the traffic coming from my adult site, and perhaps start the google ads so google doesn't get suspicious. However, if there's nothing to worry about then I may as well put the ads up from the begining. Thanks in advance anyone who takes the time to read & respond.
Nope, Google does not like traffic coming from Adult sites. You really may not want it either because normally it is useless traffic. If Google sees a large amount of traffic coming from there they may ban you from using adsense. .
Google's policy is that the page that Adsense is on cannot have any Adult contents. So it is fine if you are getting traffic through a link from an adult site. You cannot however 'force' or 'encourage' anyone from visiting or clicking on the adsense ads. An adult site can always recommend a non-adult site and it is not a problem. I have a Directory site with Adsense and there is an adult site listing section which with the consultation with Google, I was able to put Adsense on the Non-Adult Pages and the Pages with Adult links would come without Adsense and they are okay with that.
Thanks I'll hold off on putting any google ads on. I see what you mean by saying normally useless traffic. If someone is interested in my new message forum and wants to click the banner on my adult site, they must be interested enough to click the banner right? Google is a strange thing. I'll just play it safe and build up the traffic on the site and then stop any adult sources that I can and put on the google ads. If all else fails perhaps I can use Yahoo's overture version.
Thanks eddy that sounds like good news. I have a great idea, although not original, I believe I'm somewhat improving the concept so I'm hoping to make another popular site, but not just for adults. If I can use adsense great, if not, that's ok too I guess.
Well, you can review Adsense's Policy at https://www.google.com/adsense/supp...=aso&subid=ww-ww-et-asui&medium=link&hl=en_US .
G does not allow any kind of adult on adsense and adwords. i think they will not allow traffic from am adult site. if you do that , you may loose your account again
There is nothing in their policy which states that the traffic cannot come from an adult site. Their policy only states that Adsense cannot appear on Adult content Pages.
To give more information, about a year ago I had a different adult traffic source from an adult discussion forum. I purchased a flash game script which had the google ads built in. I put in my id, and within a week or so I kept seeing the same Katrina ad and logged into the account to see it was no longer there. I didn't know if it was because Google could tell that the visitors to my site were mostly coming from an adult site, or if it was because the flash game script had the google ad locations sort of misleading, making it look like you'll click on a game but instead its a google ad. I would imagine it was the sneaky positioning of the ads but I've been afraid to put my existing traffic onto something G-rated just in case. Once a website is out, that's it, you can't do it again with that website I think. I may just take a chance we'll see.