Comments on: AdSense Policy Changes to Hit Comment Spammers?

By: Blog Marketing, Blog Promotion for Newbies » Blog Archive » The Search For Truth and Reality

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:04:18 +0000

[...] Well, now there’s been a change in the Adsense Policy. Darren points us to Jen at Jensense and Jen quotes something new for all interested parties saying this about Google’s new policy for publishers using Adsense; [...]

By: Darren Collins

Darren Collins — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 05:59:03 +0000

Presumably if you put the banner on your site, it’s not unwanted. I think they’re specifically targetting spam content not created by the site owner (and hence ‘unwanted’), such as comments on blogs, forum postings, guest book entries, user-submitted reviews, wikis, etc. Legitimate (or ‘wanted’) content would still be OK, for example where you post some helpful advice but have a link to your site in your signature.

They can’t really know every site owner’s definition of ‘unwanted’ advertising content, so they’ll probably only act if the site owner complains.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 05:01:36 +0000

More likely they’ll end up doing a huge sweep that drops everyone from the SERPS who has ever left a link to their site in someone’s comments. :P

*debates on deleting link above*

By: Comic Strip Blogger

Comic Strip Blogger — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:17:07 +0000

they should exclude explicitly banners as not unwanted advertisement me thinks, i.e.: site A has banner to side B that has ads.