21 Common Mistakes that Violate Google Adsense TOS
October 17th, 2008 by Lax
You don’t have time to read all the Terms & Conditions at Adsense site? But it’s important to have a look at all of them to Avoid your account blocking from Adsense program. Don’t worry I will take you through all the important tos within 2min of time.
Following are the common mistakes people Do knowingly or unknowingly which causes for their account blocking. So I can assure you that after reading all these you will be safe enough all the time.
- Never click your own Adsense ads or get them clicked for whatever reason
- Never change the Adsense code
- Do not place more than 3 ad units and 3 ad links or 2 Adsense search boxes on any web page
- Do not run competitive contextual text ad or search services on the same site
- Do not disclose confidential information
- Label headings as “sponsored links” or “advertisements” only
- Never launch a new Page for clicked ads by default
- One Account suffices for Multiple websites
- Place ads only on Content Pages
- Do not mask ad elements
- Do not send your ads by email
- Keep track of your content
- Do not alter the results after ad clicks or searches
- Avoid excessive advertising and keyword stuffing
- Ensure you Language is Supported
- Maximum 2 referral button per product per page
- Do not specify Google ads as your alternate ads
- Do not confuse with adjacent Images
- Never ask some one online to click your ads
- Don’t reproduce copyright content to your site. Because of this there may be chance of account block if that author complaint against you.
- Don’t place any information like “Please click this ad and help someone” or etc… content like this.
If you want detailed explanation of first 18 points you can read them at Quickoninetips. A good collection of points by Quickoninetips and I must say thanks for sharing this. I will try to update this more in future.
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Great & worth to read yar..
Insted of bunch of pages at google this is very simple and easy to understand.
@funandtech,
Thanks yar
Really its time consuming and hard to read all the pages at google.
Am lazy to read all those
Simply superb yar,
First time i came to this and impressed alot.just subscribed also Keep rocking Lax.
Good site.
@Malok,
Am very happy to hear all these words
I will try my best to improve more.
Thanks again for your comments.
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22.Don’t place ads just after the post titles (Or keep an “advertisements” label ) .
@Smartin,
I don’t think to follow this.Because thats common to place ads after the title on single page to get good CTR.
Anyway thanks for sharing your opinion dude…Keep coming
Great info, in regards to placing the ads after the post title, would this mess up the search results at all?
No it won’t mess up.
Thank you for these tips. Also I think loading our own blog page too much also violates Adsense Tos! On adwords we Do need to pay for impression!!
Yes that true. Loading out own page too many time may lead to suspect. But this is general for bloggers.
I suffered an Adsense account termination for more or less 6 months. But still I still continue blogging even though I don’t have google adsense account.
I use adbrite as adsense alternative to earn money on my blog, but they can’t provide me blog more ads on my site like google does.
Thank God, my adsense re-application was approved and now I am using it for almost a month since I got approve.
I thought google won’t allow my site to have an adsense ad on my site, but they are not that kind of heartless people. They are not robot that couldn’t feel sadness.
So, if you experience adsense account termination, try to fixed what was wrong.
In my case, my sister click the ads on my site when I am in school without letting me know. Just in an instant, my account got terminated.
Don’t try to violate the Google Adsense’s TOS or else you will regret it.
4. Do not run competitive contextual text ad or search services on the same site
This is not against the Google TOS, the Google TOS states:
“Competitive Ads and Services
In order to prevent user confusion, publishers may not display Google ads or search boxes on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout and colours as the Google ads or search boxes on that site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure that these ads cannot be confused with Google ads. ”
So you can run competing programs, just make sure they don’t look the same as the google ads.
Sometimes people in hurry to make money with Adsense without realizing they violate google adsense TOS. This list may remind them to be careful