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jschuman
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:20 pm
Post subject: Have You Read This Re: Google Adsense
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Have you heard about changes with Google Adsense and running competing ads on your site that are similar in appearance?
This does not affect me much, but I did have one 7Search banner with no borders that looked like an Adsense ad so I removed it.
I have a web page around the keywords make money quick that has always ranked high on Google. I checked it and had a ppc ad for SearchFeed on it so I removed the SF ad.
Manhy people will be upset with Google for cracking down on this. Personally it makes no difference to me because this affects maybe 2 or 3 web pages. Because I feature Adsense in a prominent way on my pages I am not willing to risk getting kicked out of Adsense.
You may feel differently and will have to decide how you are going to handle this if it affects you.
Here is an article that does a good job explaining these changes:
http://www.jensense.com/archives/2007/01/adsense_competi.html
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:16 pm
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Thanks for the alert.
As JenSense points out, this now means that you can't do A/B split testing of Yahoo! and AdSense ads on the same site. For professional marketers who want to test what works best, this will be very annoying.
What really annoys me about AdSense is that Google keeps fiddling with the rules. I understand that they need to keep refining their business model as they face more competition and have to cope with tricky publishers who threaten to give Google a bad image, but the rule changes create an awful lot of work for website owners.
I wonder if one day soon we'll see a new rule which says it's deceptive to use AdSense ads which look as though they're part of site's navigation. That's ridiculously deceptive and yet Google encourages it.
Here are the new, January 2007, rules:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182
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jschuman
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:03 pm
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I guess I do not fault Google for trying to emphasize their program over everyone else. They pretty much force you to feature their program or eliminate anyone else from your page if you want to promote Adsense.
I thought I read somewhere that they were now advising people not to put impages next to the ads to draw attention to them. If anyone has info on that they would like to post that would be helpful.
All of this just shows Google is trying to provide a quality click for their advertisers which I am in favor of since I have never tried to just build a website full of Adsense ads and not much content.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:12 am
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| jschuman wrote: | | I thought I read somewhere that they were now advising people not to put impages next to the ads to draw attention to them. If anyone has info on that they would like to post that would be helpful. |
Yep. Here's the decision on graphics near AdSense ads:
http://www.AssociatePrograms.com/discus/ftopic21931.html
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:39 am
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| AllanGardyne wrote: | | jschuman wrote: | | I thought I read somewhere that they were now advising people not to put impages next to the ads to draw attention to them. If anyone has info on that they would like to post that would be helpful. |
Yep. Here's the decision on graphics near AdSense ads:
http://www.AssociatePrograms.com/discus/ftopic21931.html |
O.K. that's what I thought. Thanks Allan.
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:56 am
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Remember the Golden Rule - "The man with the Gold Rules"... or something to that effect.
It's their program they can do with it as they please and your option is to participate or not. If enough people pull out their profits will drop. If they don't then they can just keep doing as they see fit. Complaining makes ZERO difference.
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