New Do's and Don't for Adsense

Hello Everyone,

Like everyone we have all had our ups and downs and some of us have become a victim to Google's Adsense policy.

If you could please share the most recent updates known in regard to account termination. You know? Just share with us what you think your account might get banned for.

e.g. too many adds on one page, adds in feeds, add with other market adds...

Even auto blogging with wordpress and wp-o-matic... What happens if yous serving feeds automatically and the owner decides to add something restricted by Google. Will you account be suspended?

Thanks in advance,
Shane

 

There seem to be a lot of common reasons, but none of these are new.

- copyright infringement - text copied without permission, illegal movie or music downloads

- lack of original text content

- adult content - not just porn, but material that isn't "family friendly"

- asking people to click the ads, or trying to disguise the ads as content or otherwise trick people into clicking

- bad traffic sources - traffic exchanges, autosurf, pay-to-surf, etc.

Really, the key is original content and following the Program Policies.

[Note that if you use Adsense for Feeds, ads in feeds are just fine]

 

Duplicate content is not against AS's terms, as long as you're not infringing any copyright policies.

 

Actually, while they don't say non-original content is against their terms, they do say that original content is recommended - a subtle difference, perhaps.

The Program Policies require the site with ads to adhere to the Google Webmaster Quality Guidelines which include:

If you have a site with some legally copied content, that's probably fine as long as that isn't the only content. And I say that because there have been a number of people reporting that their sites have been rejected from getting Adsense accounts with sites that are nothing more than copied articles from Wikipedia, for example.

 

Granted, it could be that you won't get an AS account if you apply with a site having solely duplicate content (I got mine around 4 years ago with such a site, but things might have changed in the mean time, so I'll take your word on it). Still, this doesn't mean that your account will be banned if you display ads on such a site. As you said, that's a subtle difference

 

From what I have gathered, majority of accounts being disabled were caused by click fraud and "significant risk to advertisers" which is a bit vague but from my own interpretation probably involves paid traffic.

 

has anybody ever tried adsense for feeds? does it work well?

 

This is a recent news I heard about Google Adsense. If they happens to see "Link Me and I will Link Back" options placed on your blogs, they would probably ban your adsense account. But this already seems to be a problem with Google page ranking since years.
So those who have such things in your blog's homepage, just put it somewhere else.

 

If you have AdSense on your site it is really important to realize that it is the obvious stuff that Google looks for when reviewing sites. There are certain red flags that google automatically looks for first to see if your site is abiding by their TOS. The really, really obvious this are:
1) Content; You shouldn't have any copywritten or duplicate content, or adult content, illegal content, etc.;
2) Your Website shouldn't promote clicking the ads;
3) AdSense is integrated incorrectly, this means having ads by images, shrinking the size to exclude the 'sponsored' text, or placing your ads under/next to anything that reads anything other than 'sponsor,' 'ads,' 'advertisement.'

It's really basic folks and these are just a few things that if you do incorrectly your adsense account will go byebye. Another thing I forgot to mention is the inclusion of a Privacy Policy. If you display AdSense you need one of these, put it in your footer, if you don't have one and google finds out, adios.

 

either way there's things here that pertain to my website that I find very interesting...in short I could have issues as it is.

 

what does it mean? i could not understand..

 

Yep.. I'm using it in one of my sites ( 2,500 feed subscribers) from past 6 months.. PPC is not bad.. ( about $0.20 per click on average).

 

Generally I just do the following ona site to get an account:

* no more than 3 add blocks (per page).
* make sure teh add blocks are clear ad block (not trying to hide what they are)
* use semi unique content (scrap a simlar site and have the content rewritten for a few $)
* Privacy Policy
* 5+ pages on the site.

very much the same list as SCLocal reading it back, great minds maybe?

 

Duplicate contents leads to ban from Google search. Your Adsense earnings will reduce automatically if you get banned from google search.

 

dup content does not lead to a ban from google search in 99% of cases! its been proven time and time again that this is the case.

I'm not saying using dup content is a good idea as there are reasons I choose not to, but being banned from google search is not a reason I keep away from dup content.

I'm 100% sure people are going to call me a fool, and say how wrong I am but I cant believe that this myth and thats all it is! is still believed.

If dup content should get you banned can you please explain to me how come all the article directories are still indexed? for years people have been putting articles into ezine then putting the same articles everywhere else with out an issue.

In short dup content will not get you banned from google Search. but you should still not use it!

 

Never think you're smarter.
Google is always smarter.

 

What kind of traffic do you need to make any money with adsense. My sight only gets about 50 visitors a day. Is it worth even bothering?

 

So would you say my 3rd party links to R rated movies wont be a problem? Its a zombie site, its not like its a porn site.

 

If you are asking if the fact they are zombie movies will be a problem I would say not.

If you are showing other peoples movies on your site without permission you should include a link to the source. And look to get permission.

In my original post I was not reffering to duplicating over peoples content, more putting your own work in more than one place.

If you are taking other peoples content you need to make sure you are not breaking any laws in the process.

 

Fool!

Where do you get this cockamamie BS?

Straight from google:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359