Comments on: AdSenseAd Clarify Policy on Images Near Ads

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:21:50 +0000

It is really useful to know since I want to put adsense to my site and It got some photos.

By: Crazy

Crazy — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:52:14 +0000

What about this SITE?
http://www.hv-designs.co.uk/tutorials.php
Images beside the Ads…

Is this OK?

By: YoungGoGetter » Google steps up to the Adsense plate

YoungGoGetter » Google steps up to the Adsense plate — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:20:05 +0000

[...] Google steps up to the Adsense plate December 19th, 2006 Google has finally clarified the use of images next to Adsense. [...]

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:22:14 +0000

What are the consequences?

By: Not Spam » xaffix.com in, alltheservices.com out

Not Spam » xaffix.com in, alltheservices.com out — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:52:14 +0000

[...] http://language-translation.xaffix.com purports to be a language learning site but it has few links and many adverts, including adverts next to a large image which may lead the unsuspecting visitor to click the ads in an attempt to enter the site. That breaks the Adsense policy with regards to images and adverts so these guys should probably be banned. (via) [...]

By: BradFitz

BradFitz — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:02:40 +0000

Darren, thanks for the heads-up on this. I am very curious though, I noticed on your other sites (laptops, pda’s, cel phones, etc) You have not yet removed the images that line up with your leader-board Adsense ads.

I was always a bit surprised you used this tactic yourself, but even more so given the fact the there were no borders between your images and the ads, which the Adsense TOS required (suggested?) there to be before this new policy was released.

So give us the skinny… are you boycotting this new rule? Waiting for them to give you a warning? Waiting for your graphic designer to get to it? Is the horizontal leader-board/image association a loophole to the rule and this only applies to vertical blocks? Or do you secretly own Google now? :)

Cheers and thanks again for posting this.

By: MM

MM — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:22:38 +0000

On Blogger Beta, they suggest blending your ads to exactly match your content, but pictures lined up with ads are not OK? My ads match my content and are within my blog posts. I find they look more a part of the site than when I lined up pictures over ads in the header, sidebar, and/or footer. Weird.

I honestly don’t get how this really negatively affects anyone. Google is making more money when more ads are clicked on. The publisher is making more money when more ads are clicked on. And the advertiser is getting a targeted user to their site (if they write accurate ads). It is their own fault if their ads are deceiving. If I see a picture of an apple and the ad says “lose 10 pounds in a week with our diet pill”, I’m not going to expect to find a site about apples. If the pictures were linked with the ads, then I could see a problem.

I personally think pictures lined up with ads on a lot of sites take away from the “I’m trying to make money” look because the ads don’t stand out like a sore thumb. The picture draws you in to read the ad (which might interest you) rather than you seeing a block of ads and completely ignoring them.

By: La toile en vrac - episode 1 at Toile-filante

La toile en vrac - episode 1 at Toile-filante — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:43:42 +0000

[...] Google dit : “Pas d’image à côté des pubs adsense“…Vous pouvez jeter à la poubelle le plugin Adsense beautifier si vous l’utilisez [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:25:23 +0000

At last,

Those images next to the ads were only ever there to deceive users. Period.

They were easily seen through and only ever cheapened the site to look desperate for you to click away as it knew there was no value in staying ;)

Adsense only works best when it’s used as an opportunity to visitors, this way regular visitors still let you maintain a credible CTR.

By: AdSense Image Policies Clarified and Updated » Aspects of Home Business Blog

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:36:07 +0000

[...] AdSense Image Policies Clarified and Updated By Stephanie Read this over on ProBlogger and thought I should help spread the word because it is a very important issue for many AdSense publishers. [...]

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:47:13 +0000

It’s about time!. Should be interesting to see what strategies people come up with now for increasing clicks.

By: Blog Merchant Accounts

Blog Merchant Accounts — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:53:23 +0000

YPN has NEVER allowed images near the ads.

This is 1 time YPN was ahead of Google.

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:26:44 +0000

I love google’s rules, I really just wish they would enforce them a little bit, rather then saying hey dont do this, but if you do and you make us a lot of money, its ok.

By: brandon

brandon — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:39:37 +0000

does this mean that yahoo will likely follow suit? Have they ever made a statement about images near YPN ads?

By: Craig McGinty

Craig McGinty — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:47:02 +0000

I wonder if this also means those background-style advert enhancements are likely to be frowned upon???

By: jhay

jhay — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:41:02 +0000

I guess it’s time to replace those images that I customized for my Adsense beautifier plugin to match the topics I blog mostly about.

Then again, it’s nice that the AdSense team has finally come out with a clear policy statement on this.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:45:09 +0000

The real question is will they will bann all users that have images. This is really importent but they should email all google adsense users to know about this. If they start to bann people it will really sux because not everybody (they should) read problogger.

By: cher

cher — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:33:55 +0000

The policy will differentiate the placement of ads with respect to images. The Adsense clarify policy will definitely will help us a lot so as to avoid any ban from the google. I think a policy has to be formulated regarding false clicks. Thanx a lot for the article.

By: $1 Link

$1 Link — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:31:49 +0000

I have never placed images next to the ads so I really have nothing to worry about I guess? However, I know many at DP Forums have been stabbing in the dark about this for sooooo loong.

Good one GA team.

Col :)

By: Body Rock

Body Rock — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:33:58 +0000

So, on one hand, the Adsense guys encourage you to blend the ads with the content and on the other, they tell people not to blend them too much as it will confuse the readers. How nice! :)