Hi all, I have heard time and time again from PPC companies: do not ask your visitors to click on the ads! However, I was surfing the net and ran across a banner ad from Adult Swim. It looks like this: Honestly...seeing the words "BABY NEEDS A PROM DRESS" in that border around the banner COMPELS me to click click click! I am wondering: would this work? Or would Google Adsense pick up on this and shut you down? Since it is an image (and not text), I guess there's less of a chance that google would find it? Thanks!
Nothing wrong with that, google doesn't want misleading pictures, but nothing wrong with misleading words eh
I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL. I know for a fact that certain niche sites do attract visitors who would like to contribute to certain sites they admire. However, this is not an automatic response. Visitors tend to ignore ads and surf the content they want to see! If a blog author (for example) posts that he would like more hits, visitors are more likely to click on banners to help their favorite site out! I am curious to know if something like this is allowed. Better yet: would google see this as click-begging? Would they detect this through a site scan?
The legit answer is that Google would not approve of this. Whether words or images, anything that makes their ad units more conspicuous or implies people should click them is not allowed. The ad unit shown in your screenshot is not AdSense.
I know it's not Adsense, but it was also not explicitly obvious to me. "Money shot" and "baby needs a new pair of shoes" just doesn't translate to "CLICK HERE PLEASE TO SUPPORT US" As far as drawing attention to the ad, I do agree it does that.