Must get a killer CTR but yeah, definitely against TOS. It's almost a textbook example of the issue google has with images.
although it is clear toc voilation, but for a time, he must be making good bucks come on boy, time is short, earn as much as you can! you never know when you get banned good luck
The thread was started to show others how the ads were perfectly blended with the niche but it is again the case how you should not violate the google TOS
I was looking all over the site in the usual places and I was like I don't even see any ads lol. Those are very tricky but also against google's tos. Images next to ad.....ahh those were the days.
Images are very near to the google ads. I still see some sites that have adsense near images, but not toooo near. There are some sites owned by very successful webmasters placing images next to ads.
A lot of adsense publishers break this rule and google doesn't seem to care. If someone who is only making 1-2$ a day does it though google will have none of that.
It is against the TOS sure, but there are still ways of tricking users to click ;D not with images so much though.
You think this is the first time someone has used this technique???? It's not new, it's not original, and it's not good. It will get the site owner banned from Adsense because he clearly violates two very specific rules. Then we can all judge how clever and orignial he was.
I must admit I had to look twice, no three times. Fair play to him for getting away with it this long
I don't hate this person at all. One of my previous threads was about gaming websites and he happened to be one of the posters.