I have a question a bout this: ------------------------------------------ 10. Do not mask ad elements. Alteration of colours and border is a facility to blend or contrast ads as per your site requirements. I have seen many sites where the url part is of the same colour as the background. While blending the ad with your site is a good idea, hiding relevant components of the ads is not allowed. Also do not block the visibility of ads by overlapping images, pop ups, tables etc. ------------------------------------------ This is #10 taken from here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1004540&highlight=common+mistakes Is this correct? In fact I have seen many tips here saying to make the ads looks like exactly as part of the page/content (i.e using the same exact background and the same title style) but what is mentioned above makes me wonder if this is okay by Google ?
You cant do this. If the Adsense url color is the same as the background color you would not be able to see it at all. This is masking, hiding, whatever its called, its illegal. People are referring to blending the content of your site with the content of the ads and the font and the colors. You will lose your account for sure if you move towards deceptive practices like masking urls.
Blending the ads the way that the visitors of your website not differentiate between ads and contents is not allowed by adsense TOS.
@Lex350 I see the idea now, of course hiding urls is not allowed but what about making it looks similar to the contents, I am sure there are many sites where the ad-link looks very similar as the menu items or as the content titles.
It's Okay. Look at http://ezinearticles.com/?Used-Kind...on-Cheap-Kindle-DX-and-2.0-Edition&id=3611296 Website link and adsense look very similar. I've seen so many websites violates this kind of guidelines. Adsense is too strict. Adsense do not allow copyrigted content, yet.. so many duplicate contents site out there, eg; lyrics, gossip sites with copyrighted images. Just one thing, don't click your own ads. or u banned forever!
It's really just common sense. Think about why people are clicking your ads. Is it because they see something advertised by Google they are interested in or is it because they think they are doing something else? Any attempts at deceit is not allowed for obvious reasons. Make them blend in and look neat but site visitors need to know what they are.
No, not ok. I followed their original guidelines from long ago that allowed blending them to look very similar to content. Then they tightened up, requiring ads to be easily distinguished, and I was contacted by Compliance telling me I was violating the TOS. I pointed them to their original guidelines, they responded that either I change it or get terminated, f'ing a-holes.
i think the term blending with hiding/masking/other stuff like that are different. blending that allowed if you doesnt change the ads script, doesnt make ads too close with content. but still in visualization the ads looks like part of the menu or other ver of related content. so visitor can read the title (ads by g) thats the safe way i hope. cmiiw
Blend as much as you want .... the TOS is meant to stop people who hide the ad behind images. remember all your ads still say ADS BY GOOGLE
just for example look at this site http://www.wanginternet.com/adsense-background-for-more-clicks.htm okay, i consider myself as a webmaster and i know exactly what is adsense, but even with all that, i am really having hard time to differentiate between ads and the contents (try to count how many google ads placed there?) On the mentioned site, ads appear to be directly associated with the contents which may confuse users or draw undue attention to the ads and result in unintentional clicks, look at it again, it is completely blended in a way that typical users will never know those links are actually ads!!! now can you tell me if this is okay with google ?!!!!