Recently I have started a file hosting website that has become fairly popular. I have both an adsense and adbrite account. Because I am afraid of getting banned from adsense, I have yet to put any ads on my website. My current earnings are pretty lousy with adbrite. Today these are my stats: Ad zone views 2x,xxx Clicks 6x Ad revenue $5.xx I feel that I could make a tremendous amount more with adsense, but I do not want to lose my account. At the moment I do not use my adsense account for anything, but I would love to grab in and take some of the money that could be made with adsense. I have read the Terms and Conditions from Google and I know they are against sites that release copyrighted material (even heard of people getting banned) and I know because I am a file host, I deal with that to some degree (there is no getting around it). The main question I suppose is this: is there a way to comply with Google’s terms and still run adsense on my site? There are several file hosting / sharing websites that run adsense that I have seen and that are not banned. Those include: www.filefactory.com www.shareator.com What is the key? Should I ban certain keywords? Not display adsense on certain pages? Or should I just stay with adbrite? There has got to be a way to comply with the terms, and I want to know how. I do want to follow the rules here. Any suggestion and help would be nice. Thanks guys.
I guess if you can display adsense only on pages that offer a public domain file, that could be ok. But honestly I don't see how you could do that, and I don't think that public domain files are the most popular on your site... And another options is to have A LOT of traffic and become a premium adsense publisher. Talk to your adsense rep about it, tell them how much traffic you get, but it must be a lot and ask them about not displaying adsense on pages for warez files. You have nothing to fear since adsense is not on your site yet.