I have no idea how long this has been on because I can't make it my life to check the adsense policies every day to find if they edited it but I got a little email stating I'm misusing my ads and to correct the problem. I went through my whole site and read through the entire policy, and oh my, guess what it is? It's images placed next to my ads. I can swear that the last time I checked this was totally legit as long as you put a border around images or distinguish the ads/images. I can figure out tons of people who did this! It was a known fact around this here forum that if you place bordered images above your leaderboards and to the left of your large square, that it's legit and gives a lot of clicks. Now I re-read the policy and it says you can't do it period now, unless your images are part of your layout! Then I check to see the tons and tons of sites that I've seen do this and all their ads are white blocks now or they removed the images. What the heck has happened? Pretty soon adsense will put in their policy that you're not allowed to breath on the freakin' ads.
So they've given you a warning? Big deal. Some people don't get that luxury. Just take a deep breath and reassess your image placement and there'll be no further issue. They do seem to have increasingly high demands, but at the end of they day it's them that write the checks!
is there a screenshot of what you did? like he said you should be thanking christ they were kind enough to warn you where so many have been banned for absolute BS and their checks were kept
HA. Maybe he just had a smiley icon near an ad, so they thought better of banning the site. I'd like to see a screenshot too. Would you mind sharing what the offending image placement ad was bringing in revenue wise on daily basis (approx)? Thanks for sharing! My knowledge of ad placement in this regards is you are NOT supposed to bring ANY attention (undue?) towards your ads in any way. Except for the fact you can always make them NEON green
Images near the ads is not exactly a new Google AdSense policy Some users are being banned directly for this, so you're quite lucky to get just a warning.
I would tend to think it is something other than images or borders www.profiledo.com www.increasectr.com I've got another 50 that say images and borders is not the issue. Perhaps it was creative wording that you used near the ads???
On the first site you listed, I do have a slight problem discerning the ads from the content. On the second site you listed, there is something NOT right as you can see in the photo, something wrong with spelling there and is it original ad from Google or something mimicking? I dunno. Anyhow, good luck!