I have adsense on a site (not a gambling site) that has a large section on wealth creation, and I want to include some articles about the lottery. I'm also a UK National Lottery affiliate, and would like to promote that program on my site. I realise google prohibits the use of adsense on sites with gambling-related content, and have two questions. 1. Is it ok to link to lottery-related affiliate programs, even if there is no other lottery or gambling-related content on the site? Or does just the presence of a lottery company's logo (and a link to that company) constitute gambling-related content? 2. Would it be ok to set up a subdomain for the lottery articles with pages that are identical to the rest of my site, except that they don't show google ads? Or would google regard a subdomain as being part of the same site? If that's the case, would it be ok to set up a completely new domain (something like w ww.mysite-lottery.com), using the same layout etc, and just link to it from my first site? That way the pages with the lottery articles would still look like they're part of the first site (other than the slightly different domain name), but would be on a separate domain, which wouldn't have adsense, so google couldn't complain about that, could they? thanks
Honestly you need to ask Google. This would be the best thing in this case. They will let you know in writing about their view on this and then you would have a backup if something went wrong later. Always having something in writing fromt them is the best move.
In a recent contact with Google I received an e-mail that stated "Please understand that by linking to other sites, this may be considered promotion." That makes it pretty clear about that. Unfortunately I have received other E-mails from the Adsense Employees that stated the exact opposite. Go figure. As far as having PAGES within the site. It seems to be the consensus by all Adsense Employees that you can have pages within your sites with "BAD material" but are not able to show the Adsense Code on these pages. Do as thenetcode suggest contact Adsense. They have the final say not even the written document(TOS) tells all.
And as you said one employee says one thing and another one will say something else. That is why it is important to have it in writing from them for your protection.
Thanks for the replies. I guess I will have to contact them. I was kind of hoping to avoid it, as in my experience they tend to not bother to deal with the specifics of my questions, & just send cut & past replies that have little relevance to what I was asking. Oh, well, maybe I'll have better luck this time!