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Bobby · Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 764

The following appears on the AdSense information pages

"Ad Placement
...Ads may not be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant. "

This would seem to work against all the newsletters and postings providing information on how to develop keyword rich pages to profit with AdSense. Does anyone know how strictly AdSense enforces this policy?

- Bobby

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I have seen a number of sites that have AdSense ads on pages that have no other content but affiliate links and other ads. This is commonly known as AdSense spam. I suspect that Google does enforce the rule if the violation is brought to their attention.

Developing keyword rich CONTENT is not the same thing as throwing up ads and links to trick the Google crawler into serving ads complementary to those links.

MinniePauz · Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 161 Location: Michigan

Here's a site that was obviously built for the purpose of showing others how to set up a page using keywords...... it doesn't make sense to me, because the content is all about how to use the keyword phrase "menopause humor", and they've even set up Amazon links to books about that topic, but the ads are all about search engines. (Plus the ads are on top of the copy....weird). What am I not getting here?
http://www.bizzimage.com/menopause-humor/

Actually, after a second look, the page is an experiment to get higher in the search engines using keywords and I guess it works because this page was not far under mine for that keyword phrase. The difference is that mine is #1 and the other is #3, but that bumps many other relevant sites further down. What's the purpose to get the ranking without having information for the person looking for that keyword?

Guest · Guest

That site is a clear example of spam and I suspect if Google AdSense knew about it, they would ask that the code be removed from the page.

People set up sites like this for the sole purpose of getting traffic to click on their affiliate and other advertising links.

By the way, http://www.menopause.com is really the same thing. It's just a bunch of affiliate links to Amazon, and AdSense, and a violation of the AdSense program rules.

Frank Nordberg · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 114 Location: Norway

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Frank, what is the source of your comment? I don't think Google can force PSAs if their crawler picks up relevant keywords.

Charlie · Joined: 22 Aug 2003 Posts: 3305 Location: UK

Guest · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:30 am Post subject:

Frank Nordberg · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 114 Location: Norway

MinniePauz · Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 161 Location: Michigan

There's always going to be people who are going to manipulate and deceive to try to take advantage of a good system. The people who have followed all the rules and have a single, content rich site are the ones who lose out when the program starts failing due to abuse. To me it looks just like the idiots who do spam and virus attacks...eventually it just tears down a good system. My hope is that Google will be able to keep things under control so that Adsense can benefit everyone who follows the rules.

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