Violation of TOS?

I am currently designing a site with as goal to get as much adsense revenue as possible. My question was the way I placed the adds does it violate the TOS?

http://web9.000025.net/~eiso/

Best regards,

Eiso

 

email google and ask... rtfm

 

I think it OK

 

for me there was no TOS violation on that site.

 

Great, thank you very much.

 

There are already some sites that do this kind of stuff. Check out, for e.g.
http://www.searchlook.com/index.cfm/cid/22

They seem to be doing OK with adsense.

 

If you ever have any doubt as to whether a design violates the TOS then always email Google.
We can give our verdict, but the only one that matters is what Google thinks.

 

Seems like a great placement to me

 

Looks good to me too...

 

The term "Made for Adsense" is a very grey area I think.

Let say you have a successful site and one day decide to put adsense on it. You don't want to affect the user's experience of the site, so you only put a couple of small ads on the side bar.

You notice that you're making a few decent bucks and start "optimising for adsense" and place you ads right in the user's face (at the top middle of content pages 250 x 250 ads).

I don't think your site is for your users anymore, it's for the adsense...or a "made into adsense site"

It's like when a news channel puts on sensational video footage with no news value at all, only to sell advertising. How many crappy TV shows are made for advertising, like those shows where cars are driving down the wrong side of the motorway?

If your site has "some kind" of value to a surfer then google can't really complain if it was "made for adsense"

That's just my opinion though.

 

In principle, yes. However, considering the immense number of these sites on the web, and how much money is exchanging hands every single day due to them (with a significant portion of the pie going into Google's own coffers), I'd say they put that in the TOS just to have an easy termination option on a case-by-case basis.

 

Thats the double edge sword.... In my opinion I think what google is meaning is if your designing a site around adsense thats bad.

If your putting ads around your existing site... thats ok.

Of course my opinion and 15cents will get you a warm cup of piss.

Its what googles opnion of your site is that matters for adsense

 

Huh?
There's nothing to worry about on that site at all

 

very smarty, nice design..

 

Good job, Eiso. Looks great.

Nope, no problem with the placing of the ads, however, do pay attention to what Shannon (Smyrl) is saying about made-for-adsense sites.

 

If your ONLY goal is to make a site to get as much adsense revenue as possible, can you promise you will not come here and complain when Google bans you? And they will ban you.

By the way your site does not look bad at all.

I think one litmus test people need to use when creating a site is can you envision someone actually wanting to use your site and even come back to it. If the intent is only to get people to your ads and force them into clicking on them, then perhaps another strategy is in order. But if you can honestly tell yourself, I can see a person looking for information about X coming to my site and really benefiting from it. If you can not honestly find a reason why anyone would want to visit your site on purpose, then you need to expand it more. If you can, then I think you are fine.