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Is this legal for an adsense site?

by lmeyer
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Say I was developing a wordpress blog based on adsense revenue. I have one post that has 300-500 words talking about the latest news about, for example, the large hadron particle collider.

Would it be legal through the adsense terms of service to make a link from a term "large hadron collider" to another page on my site with just adsense links?

I know that the TOS says you aren't allowed to provide incentive to click the links, but would this be considered against the rules?

Thanks,
Lucas
#adsense #legal #site
  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    I don't think there is a requirement about how much content you must have on a page, but if there is zero content, you may find you have problems with relevancy or with having no ads show up.
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  • Profile picture of the author sajan1kota
    I think this would not be considered against the rules. as you say that you are just making a link to another page on your site, Google treats it link an internal link so its legal.if you are redirecting the visitors from your website to a different website that is considered illegal.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Nobody here works for google, so beware of all advice.

      Their TOS has different things about what you are talking about.
      If I take what you say to the letter, that you just have adsense on
      that page, then it would violate the terms as I see them because the
      page exists for no other reason than to display adsense ads. In other
      words, there is no use for the page and no content. And you do
      say, with just adsense links. This is entirely different than pages that
      have a purpose, like a signup page, about page, etc.

      Now google does allow "no content" sites, but these are parked domains.
      Parked domains are indeed okay for adsense, in fact they encourage you
      to do this their way.

      I can't imagine that google would not notice that there is no content
      on a page. There must be content in order to decide what ads to place
      there. That is different than having little content.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author lmeyer
    great advice, thanks.

    Adding at least some info to the page seems like the correct way to go. A short description or a wiki type page would work great.

    Thanks!
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