i am planing on sending out a small newsletter on a regular basis and include a link to one of my pages which has AdSense on it. will i get banned if people start clicking on ads and google sees that they are coming from let's say hotmail.com, gmail.com etc? also, the newsletter won't mention anything about clicking on ads, supporting the page by visiting sponsors etc. thanks
Write them and ask them. Show them what you are planning to do. Ultimately Google bans people for violating the TOS for trying to intentionally trick people into clicking as this is not good for Google or Advertisers. You know if your intention is not ethical. And Google may or may not decide to ban you ethical or not. But the bottom line is no one here can answer that for you. If you want a real answer write to Google.
i'll email them tonight and let you know. i guess it also depends how many people would click. if they would see that only few people click they wouldn't mind but if every single "email visitor" would click on ads they would get upset. anyway, i'm going to email them and let you know.
I guess It depends, What your page's content? If It's just adsense I think that will be a problem, but if It's page with content and adsense I think It's Ok