What do "Made for adsense" sites look like and How do i avoid making mine look like one?

by cweber

Posted: 13 years ago 11 replies

Hello all. I would like to add adsense to my site along with my amazon affiliate links. I will not share my site as it is in a smaller niche and I don't want more competition

But I can say this about it so far:

- All content is 100% unique (about 30 pages of content)
- I am promoting amazon products on the site and want to add in adsense
- I have added in adsense with one large rectangle at the top of each page right under the title, and one large rectangle after the post too
- It is a simple theme, I have taken certain things out so that it is now just 2 columns (a simple sidebar with navigation links and the main column content)
- I changed the adsense style so that it blends in with the site both in background colour and text colour of the ads

I'm just wondering what a made for adsense website looks like though. I want to avoid looking like one so my account wouldn't get banned. Also any other tips for making a site NOT look like it was made for adsense would be great too. Thanks

#avoid #made for adsense #making #mine #sites

yukon Banned 13 years ago

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- cweber 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  (4 sli ce toa ster . or g)
  
  Remove the blank space from the url above.
  
  So what exactly makes it made for adsense. Other than not really having any content that is really that useful to anyoneit only has one ad block which seems ok to me? The theme doesn't look that great either but just my opinion? I noticed they don't have adsense on the site but some other ad network...wonder if they got banned from adsense?
  
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  bitriot 13 years ago
  
  With the amount of content you have you sorta fall out of the prototypical Micro Niche MFA cetegory.
  
  The big tip offs to a traditional MFA site are:
  
  1. Menu on the right hand side of the page.
  2. Very few links for the user to click on the site (so they click your google ads)
  3. No external links outside of the adsense block
  4. 300x250 adsense block underneath the article headline
  
  That basically sums it up. Here are a few other examples
  
  multimastertool dot org
  thethickyogamat dot com
  gontaspace dot com
  
  "Thick Yoga Mat" was a a popular use case in the xfactor program and as a result pages 2-4 of google SERPS are lousy with these sorts of sites for the term.
  
  Hope that helps.
  
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- scott g 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  (4 sli ce toa ster . or g)
  
  Remove the blank space from the url above.
  
  Isn't that one of Xfactor's XsitePro AdSense sites that he's soooo famous for!? LOL! They so UGLY! But.... that's the whole point. The prettiest, most appealing thing on the page should be the Ad!
  
  It's pretty easy to spot a "Made for AdSense" site: Look I was doing some "grill review" searches...
  w w w .homebarbequegrilling. c o m
  w w w. gas-grill-review. c o m
  w w w .indoorgrillreviews. c o m
  
  P.s. DON'T CLICK ADS ON EXAMPLE SITES.
  
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bgmacaw 13 years ago

Your Adsense account wouldn't be disabled because of how your site looked. The site might be deindexed by the search quality team, an entirely different department at Google, because it looked like a standard MFA template.

Make your site look something like these...

http://www.theearthstreasure.com/
http://www.yuprocks.com/
http://www.chenminerals.com/

...and guess what niche I was researching this evening.
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- arttse 13 years ago
  
  Insert images, links to external sites, the google search tool, a few videos and your site wont resemble a MFA site.
  
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gtk29 13 years ago

Typically put a little bit of stuff that might distract a visitor from clicking AdSense ads - like external links, images etc.
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add1t 13 years ago

your site might be deindexed , but SEO is only one of traffic strategy
you still can get visitors from many different source.
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dustinthetoucan 13 years ago

Of the bigger things is if it blends so well people can't tell their ads and think their just links on your website. That's the main thing IMO.
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- kevlah 13 years ago
  
  As long as you have the key components in place - useful original content, privacy policy and contact details, there really shouldn't be much to worry about.
  
  Use the links to MFA sites already posted and your own judgement - sit back and try to look at your site with fresh eyes and decide for yourself whether it looks spammy or not.
  
  If you want to play it extra safe you shouldn't have an ad block right below your page title. Have a short paragraph of content, three or four lines, then have your ad block. In my experience this doesn't hurt CTR.
  
  Perhaps it is down to preference or is site dependent, but I find a medium rectangle works just as well as a large. It provides the same number of ads in slightly less space and generally looks a bit cleaner and less spammy imo.
  
  If you are new too adsense (or at least new too it with this particular site), then I would just start with one ad block at the top. More ad blocks on a page can lower your CPC whilst not necessarily improving your CTR .
  
  I also think that trying to get revenue from both amazon and adsense on a page will hinder both, more than help. It is really niche/product dependant, but, from other peoples feedback, and my own experience, it is best to have just one thing on a page too distract your visitors
  
  You've already got 30 pages, and if you are already pulling decent traffic too several of them then you are in a good position to split test this stuff and see which works out best.
  
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