How is this Possible?

12 years ago

Is it "legal" to display more than 3 lots of Google Ads? Yes. The Police won't turn up on your doorstep and arrest you!

Is it against their terms of service? Yes. If you display more than three lots of Google Ads you will have your account banned.

Are those Google ads? No. I imagine the terms of service for contextweb are different from those of Google.

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Don Luis Banned 12 years ago

I though that a maximum of 3 ad blocks will show up, regardless of how many Google Adsense ad blocks you put on a page.

I won't risk it so I'll just follow the TOS.
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Newbieee

12 years ago

no its not illegal but why would u want to do that?

its not effective.

it puts people off.

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matthewfermin

12 years ago

I think maximum is 3. So for you to make your website safe why not post 2 only. You can also search other forum thread about that. Hope this helps.

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Barry Unruh

12 years ago

If you inspect his page source you will discover he is probably violating even more Adsense TOS. You will not find a single Google Adsense block listed in the page source. I don't really feel like trying to go through the code to see how he's doing it, but you can be pretty sure when the first manual review of the site happens it will result in either a warning or an immediate ban.

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rosetrees

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Barry Unruh

If you inspect his page source you will discover ................ You will not find a single Google Adsense block listed in the page source. I don't really feel like trying to go through the code to see how he's doing it,

He ISN'T using Adsense. That was the point of my previous post.

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Barry Unruh

12 years ago

Originally Posted by rosetrees

He ISN'T using Adsense. That was the point of my previous post.

You are right, I missed what you indicated about ContextWeb, but when I look at his page and all the ads are displaying "Ad Choices" in the corner, a Google Trademark it indicates to me it not displaying ContextWeb ads.

I do see the ContextWeb setup now, which explains why the Google Adsense code is missing...but here is how I understand ContextWeb as taken from their site:

Maximize Your Revenue & Limit Your Risk: If advertisers on the CONTEXTWEB Ad Exchange do not beat your current eCPM from your other ad networks, it will automatically be sent to your backup ad networks like Google AdSense. This guarantees that you'll always make more money and never less when you work with CONTEXTWEB.

Which then puts you right back into violation of Google Adsense TOS since it is going to "your" backup ad network.

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Rocky07

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Barry Unruh

You are right, I missed what you indicated about ContextWeb, but when I look at his page and all the ads are displaying "Ad Choices" in the corner, a Google Trademark it indicates to me it not displaying ContextWeb ads.

I do see the ContextWeb setup now, which explains why the Google Adsense code is missing...but here is how I understand ContextWeb as taken from their site:

Maximize Your Revenue & Limit Your Risk: If advertisers on the CONTEXTWEB Ad Exchange do not beat your current eCPM from your other ad networks, it will automatically be sent to your backup ad networks like Google AdSense. This guarantees that you'll always make more money and never less when you work with CONTEXTWEB.

Which then puts you right back into violation of Google Adsense TOS since it is going to "your" backup ad network.

Sorry, i am new in All this, what is CONTEXTWEB? and it clearly shows that he is using Adsense.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Google will only display 3. If you use more than 3, the additional ones don't display. I only see two Google ads on this guy's site along with other ads.

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zamzung

12 years ago

Acoording to Google TOS, maximum of 3 ad blocks are permitted... but that doesn't mean you can't show ads from other networks if you want... it's just a question how smart is that...

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Barry Unruh

12 years ago

I believe we will all see different things dependent on geotargeting. I'm in the Philippines, so therefor all of the ad blocks filled with Adsense. For Suzanne it filled with other ads. That is the nature of ContextWeb.

The problem is with so many ad blocks defined some people will be seeing more than 3 Adsense ad blocks which technically violates Google's TOS. I don't really care, but if it were my website and I did not understand that could happen with ContextWeb and I woke up a few weeks later and had my Adsense account banned I might be a bit upset.