OK in my recent 2006 AdSense Summary I suggested that it was OK to have images next to your ads IF they were unrelated and non deceptive, as per the AdSense program policies: I suggested that you were able to display "related" and "non deceptive" icons next to the ads like simple blue circles - a bit like bulleting - and I actually emailed my Google AdSense representative to check to see if the implementation was acceptable and I received a response say that the implement technique was within their program policies. Anyway I recently received an email from the AdSense team requesting that I now change the implementation as they have now deemed that the technique is deceptive. So I just thought I would pass on the word - because I don't want anyone coming back to me saying that I lead them astray. I mean it is clear that pointing an arrow to an ad is implying people read and click - but isn't drawing a slight amount of attention to an ad actually in the advertisers interests, if the attention is gained in a way that is not in anyway designed to get the user to do anything more than "read and consider" the advertisement rather than click on? I have been an AdWords publisher myself so as a AdSense publisher I'm not in the business of trying to rip advertisers off in any way, shape or form and I'm a big believer in trying to create win-win situations for advertisers and publishers, but at the same time I do want people to click the ads if they're genuinely interested. So then isn't drawing a little bit of unbiased attention to ads a win-win situation for all parties involved - publishers get paid, Google gets paid and advertisers get an interested visitor? That said, the Google AdSense were fairly helpful through the process as I bounce a couple of long emails to and fro with them, and whilst I can sort of see where they're are coming from I feel that taking the hard line on this one might actually be to the detriment to all parties involved, being the advertisers, publishers and themselves and the AdSense and image policy needs to be refined even further.