Adsense TOS Question Re: Alcohol

[Yimes]

I have searched these forums and have not located an answer but please forgive me if this topic has been covered.

Adsense TOS says "Ads are also not permitted on pages which sell or promote the sales of beer, hard alcohol, or liqueurs."

I have a site which talks about alcohol related accessories and alcoholic recipes. I do not recommend any specific brand of alcohol mostly just recipes and products like glasses and bar tools.

I have searched similar sites and see adsense on sites which talk about alcohol.

So my thought it as long as I do not link to sites promoting the sale or promote the sale of alcohol myself I should be fine? Is saying a particular recipe is excellent and that you should try it promoting the sale of alcohol?

If anyone has specific wisdom in this field I would appreciate your input.

Thanks.

[Joseph Then]

The best way is: Go to Google Adsense forum, tell them about your website and you will get the answer you want.

[Talen]

If your site is related to alcohol in any way you are out of luck as adsense prohibits such sites from running their ads.

[Yimes]

If your site is related to alcohol in any way you are out of luck as adsense prohibits such sites from running their ads.

This is such a grey area and frankly why I asked the question here.

About.com has recipes for Alcoholic drinks and tips on how to make the best ones and they run Adsense. Does anyone think they are playing with fire by doing so? I think not. There has to be some guidelines out there beyond the vague and all encompassing TOS.

The best way is: Go to Google Adsense forum, tell them about your website and you will get the answer you want.

I try very hard to comply with all Adsense rules but the last thing I really want is someone from Google actually looking at my site. (BTW, this site is not running Adsense yet, I was just considering it).

I have a website about firearms for a few years now with AdSense on it. Firearms are also prohibited by adsense. At least promoting. Anyway I have descriptions of firearms and had no problems.

My take on the TOS is that you can talk about Alcohol just not actively promote the sale or link to sites that do. I guess the question would then be: is talking about alcohol promoting it, even if your not selling it? I suppose the same may apply for firearms.

[Talen]

About.com is a premium publisher and have different rules. Also About.com has a shedload of pages and unless someone reports the page or they get a manual review of the page most likely nothing will happen.

I have a news site where I wrote about a Chinese woman who was stripping on the internet to help with earthquake relief...I showed no pictures and the raciest the article got was when I wrote nude...google gave me 3 days to remove adsense from that page or they would disable adsense for the entire site.

There is no grey area here...alcohol, pornography ( including the words nude and naked) as well as firearms are against their ToS. You may get away with it for a while maybe even years but if they see it they will respond.

Originally Posted by Yimes

This is such a grey area and frankly why I asked the question here.

About.com has recipes for Alcoholic drinks and tips on how to make the best ones and they run Adsense. Does anyone think they are playing with fire by doing so? I think not. There has to be some guidelines out there beyond the vague and all encompassing TOS.

I try very hard to comply with all Adsense rules but the last thing I really want is someone from Google actually looking at my site. (BTW, this site is not running Adsense yet, I was just considering it).

My take on the TOS is that you can talk about Alcohol just not actively promote the sale or link to sites that do. I guess the question would then be: is talking about alcohol promoting it, even if your not selling it? I suppose the same may apply for firearms.

[Yimes]

If your site is related to alcohol in any way you are out of luck as adsense prohibits such sites from running their ads.

This is such a grey area and frankly why I asked the question here.

About.com has recipes for Alcoholic drinks and tips on how to make the best ones and they run Adsense. Does anyone think they are playing with fire by doing so? I think not. There has to be some guidelines out there beyond the vague and all encompassing TOS.

The best way is: Go to Google Adsense forum, tell them about your website and you will get the answer you want.

I try very hard to comply with all Adsense rules but the last thing I really want is someone from Google actually looking at my site. (BTW, this site is not running Adsense yet, I was just considering it).

I have a website about firearms for a few years now with AdSense on it. Firearms are also prohibited by adsense. At least promoting. Anyway I have descriptions of firearms and had no problems.

My take on the TOS is that you can talk about Alcohol just not actively promote the sale or link to sites that do. I guess the question would then be: is talking about alcohol promoting it, even if your not selling it? I suppose the same may apply for firearms.