I got the following message from Google today, and need help fixing whatever they are asking me to fix without telling me what that is. We have not edited the site in any way, so this is out of the blue for us. Following e-mail from Google. Violation explanation ​ MODIFIED AD BEHAVIOR: As stated in our program policies, publishers are not permitted to alter the behavior of ads in any way. This includes displaying more than three ad units on each page. How to resolve: If you received a notification in regard to page content, please either remove the content from your site or remove ads from the violating pages. If you received a notification in regards to the way ads are implemented on your site, please make the necessary changes to your implementation. We will automatically review the site again after 72 hours. You do not need to contact us if you make changes. Please be aware that if changes are not made within the required time frame, ad serving will be disabled to the affected website listed above. Additionally, please be aware that the URL above is just an example and that the same violations may exist on other pages of this website or other sites that you own. To reduce the likelihood of future warnings from us, we suggest that you review all your sites for compliance. For more information regarding our policy warning notifications, visit our Help Center: https://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1378153&ctx=topic. Here is the "example" page they linked to: http://tireball.com/nascar/2013/05/11/matt-kenesth-wins-southern-500-from-darlington-raceway-full-race-results/ We only have the three adsense banners, two leaderboards (one on top, and one in the article and its like that on every page) and the top square ad on the right side bar. The other ads are CPM networks. We run with two of them. The only thing I can even remotely imagine is one of the CPM ad networks sent us an e-mail last week saying they were changing over and used to run through double click, but now their CPM ads info shows adsense info... could this ad be making google think its a "fourth ad" showing on the page? HELP please and thank you.
And if my CPM ad networks are causing this issue, is this something DFP can fix for me? I am sick thinking if I remove both CPM networks that have been on my site for over a year, I'll be losing roughly $500 a month between them.
As Adsense is still on your site, you've fixed the problem. Did you have too many ads on there? It might help to document your solution here, for other people with a similar problem in the future.
you have lots of problem in your blog and layouts with adsense placing policy- 1.In details page there are four text-image ads running-what must be 3- 2.first ads position after header Leader board (728 x 90) is aligned center but after post its aligned with post alignment -better is give on where start the post and same as below the post without gap or page break -for rules but my suggestion is stay with with the top banner ads and remove the below post ones-in the sidebar there are Skyscraper (120x600) -what makes a gap just besides it -so replace it with 336 square ads--and write sponsored links or google advirtisements should be appreciated before the ads.I wish your best and I am sure it will fix your adsense problems.Thanks
I think you may have answered your own question and it looks like something to do with the double click program, a bit tricky to tell, but for sure it looks like way more than three ads running. Now adsense physically limits itself to 3 ads e.g. if you try and display 4 then the fourth one shows as white space, but the first 3 still display correctly. I've heard of people using double click to get around this and display more. So at a rough guess I think you are right and it's the CPM ad causing it to think a 4th ones showing. Whilst one of the other guys has pointed out your adsense as still showing, I note your original comment that you have 3 days to fix it. I can't think of any other issue, as everything else looks fine. Tricky one....