Adsense linked units & menu bar

[yuliang11]

hi,
i'm thinking of designing my menu bar to look like adsense linked units (same fonts and underline). the position of the menu will be on the bottom of these linked units. do you guys think this is against the tos ?

[arnie19]

hi,
i'm thinking of designing my menu bar to look like adsense linked units (same fonts and underline). the position of the menu will be on the bottom of these linked units. do you guys think this is against the tos ?

No go with it. It is okay. that just camouflage/blending for your adsense and works better to increase CTR. You can read google TO's and you'll see that it is allowed.

[yuliang11]

Originally Posted by arnie19

No go with it. It is okay. that just camouflage/blending for your adsense and works better to increase CTR. You can read google TO's and you'll see that it is allowed.

i guessed that. just need confirmation from the experts to be sure.

[arnie19]

i guessed that. just need confirmation from the experts to be sure.

experts? check out google support forum. You'll find an expert there. lol just kidding. Well blending works for me a lot as well as placement of adsense.

[JoshuaG]

WOW....

Peoples ignorance never ceases to amazing me. What you are suggesting is completely against the AdSense TOS.


See for yourself:

Encouraging Clicks


Publishers may not ask others to click their ads or use deceptive implementation methods to obtain clicks. This includes, but is not limited to, offering compensation to users for viewing ads or performing searches, promising to raise money for third parties for such behavior or placing images next to individual ads.

• Format ads so that they become indistinguishable from other content on that page.
• Format site content so that it is difficult to distinguish it from ads.

That's right from the horses mouth.

I don't know who's dumber, Arnie19 for inadvertently trying to ruin your business, or you for thanking him!

[yuliang11]

Originally Posted by JoshuaG

WOW....

Peoples ignorance never ceases to amazing me. What you are suggesting is completely against the AdSense TOS.


See for yourself:
That's right from the horses mouth.

I don't know who's dumber, Arnie19 for inadvertently trying to ruin your business, or you for thanking him!

Right, thanks for pointing that out i remember seeing this somewhere before. What about wordpress theme such as bluesense and prosense? are they against the TOS ?

[JoshuaG]

Right, thanks for pointing that out i remember seeing this somewhere before. What about wordpress theme such as bluesense and prosense? are they against the TOS ?

To the best of my knowledge they are both acceptable.

I just took a quick look at both of them to jog my memory and everything looks kosher.

I've also seen users like "tryBPO" (adsenseflippers.com) using the prosense theme and they have passed a manual review from google based on what they have said here on warrior and on their blog.

You'll also occasionally see high earning sites for sale on flippa using prosense which lends a touch of credibility as well.

[yuliang11]

Originally Posted by JoshuaG

To the best of my knowledge they are both acceptable.

I just took a quick look at both of them to jog my memory and everything looks kosher.

I've also seen users like "tryBPO" (adsenseflippers.com) using the prosense theme and they have passed a manual review from google based on what they have said here on warrior and on their blog.

You'll also occasionally see high earning sites for sale on flippa using prosense which lends a touch of credibility as well.

wouldn't that be a little vague on how far you can go with site format with adsense ? to me themes like that is quite difficult to differenciate with site content.

[JoshuaG]

Originally Posted by yuliang11

wouldn't that be a little vague on how far you can go with site format with adsense ? to me themes like that is quite difficult to differenciate with site content.

I guess that's a matter of perspective.

I don't have difficultly differentiating the content from the ads on either of those themes.

Regardless, at the end of the day you've got to use your best judgement and learn from the experience of others. What more can one really do?

[yuliang11]

Originally Posted by JoshuaG

I guess that's a matter of perspective.

I don't have difficultly differentiating the content from the ads on either of those themes.

Regardless, at the end of the day you've got to use your best judgement and learn from the experience of others. What more can one really do?

Thanks. I guess I gotta be really careful on this. if i get banned there are no more way back

[arnie19]

Originally Posted by JoshuaG

WOW....

Peoples ignorance never ceases to amazing me. What you are suggesting is completely against the AdSense TOS.


See for yourself:
That's right from the horses mouth.

I don't know who's dumber, Arnie19 for inadvertently trying to ruin your business, or you for thanking him!

Hey Josh, Think before you speak and make a research. I don't speak or trying to ruin something to yuliang11. besides, what would be the benefit of doing so??

why not check this.

https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...y?answer=17957

can you point out to me where is the against part in the link you sent??? I would be happy to know it since I've been with adsense for almost 4 years and haven't had a problem with my placement.

[yuliang11]

Originally Posted by arnie19

Hey Josh, Think before you speak and make a research. I don't speak or trying to ruin something to yuliang11. besides, what would be the benefit of doing so??

why not check this.

https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...y?answer=17957

can you point out to me where is the against part in the link you sent??? I would be happy to know it since I've been with adsense for almost 4 years and haven't had a problem with my placement.

I believe i saw some recomendations on adsense blending from Google too. However i've lost the links to those . maybe i should ask this question on Google forum. that would be better