Guys, check out pslover.com. When do you think they'll be kicked out of adsense? I used to do that in myspacerelief.com but hell i don't want a red card!
I sent a note to the webmaster to give them a heads up. They probably just didn't know about the change.
The ads have a border around them, so it's not such a blatant infringement as you may think. If you look at the banned examples on the official Inside AdSense blog (adsense.blogspot.com) you'll see that they are more concerned about when the ads and images are enclosed in the same border to confuse people.
Hi, Stop it right now, if you want my opinion. It's too much close to the ads. And is it really useful ?
If you look at the banned examples on the official Inside AdSense blog (adsense.blogspot.com) you'll see that they are just those appeared in pslover.com
Taken from adsense.blogspot.com Ad and image placement: a policy clarification We've recently received a number of emails from publishers asking how we feel about the placement of images near Google ad units. There's been some confusion on this issue, and so we turned to our policy team to set the record straight. Can I place small images next to my Google ads? We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads. If your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that the advertiser is offering the exact item found in the neighboring image, they may click the ad expecting to find something that isn't actually being offered. That's not a good experience for users or advertisers. Publishers should also be careful to avoid similar implementations that people could find misleading. For instance, if your site contains a directory of Flash games, you should not format the ads to mimic the game descriptions. What if I place a space or a line between my images and my ads? Would that work? No. If the ads and the images appear to be associated, inserting a small space or a line between the images and ads will not make the implementation compliant. Does this mean I can't place ads on pages with images? You can definitely place Google ads on pages containing images -- just make sure that the ads and images are not arranged in a way that could easily mislead or confuse your visitors. For example, if you run a stock photography site with a catalog of thumbnail images, don't line the ads up with the thumbnails in a way that could be misleading. Consider using a full border around your ads or changing your ad colors, for example. What do unacceptable implementations look like? Here are some examples that wouldn't comply with our policies.
That site clearly against the New Policy... still Google clears the policy against images next to ads, still you can use it (but not like this site) and send them to google support, they will review and reply is it ok or not, One of my site has accepted images next to ads (with borders around the ad), so better mail to G and confirm with them..
i have changed adding the border colour will it do any good now so far not banned...will i get the mercy...
He needs to remove the images soon. On the other hand, I believe google is not taking action against such violations of their new ploicy and this makes sense. Not all webmasters heard of that yet. So, I wonder how they will announce it on a larger scale? Will they send emails?
benfm: just don't place images for the sake of ads. This is not allowed now. Border or not border, this is not the question.
Adsense police randomly shoot down sites with this trick. Whether it's vaguely in the TOS or not at all, the very adsense team has confirmed that you should avoid this trick. If you have to the gut to, go ahead bring your site to this countdown.
This is definately a "play at your own risk" subject. Received the "change it or lose it" notice from Google last week and decided it was in my best interest to remove them. Not worth the risk to me. I had a divider line between the images and the ads and they still called that out. I figured if a border was necessary, I might as well just rely on the good blending schemes instead. I had strips of images of varying types and just took everything down. The interesting thing about is, I seem to remember adding them because my testing told me at the time it increased my CTR's. In the 6 days since removing them, there has been virtually no difference (less than 1%) in my CTR's from before or since. Oh well...on to the next great idea The only implementation I've seen since the changes that has been condoned by "G" was a site (forgot the URL now) that is using a large square image (almost a background next to the ad block) that definately doesn't look like it's part of the ads, and was approved as "ok" for the moment. Again, enter at your own risk but proceed with caution I would say...
i don't see the point of posts like this. how would you like it if you didn't know about the new policy and some random guy posted your site here and then informed google and thus probably getting the account banned? just b/c you don't know the person doesn't mean he isn't someone just like you...trying to make a living from adsense hopefully. if you're so proactive, send the webmaster an email and point them here. i'm sure they would appreciate the heads up and we might get a new contributing member to DP. if he ignores you or whatever, then i guess at least you can say you tried.