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Adsense ads below image, is this allowed?

by myste
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Hello!

Is adsense placement like on this site: lcdtvaanbieding.nl allowed (Adsense ads below image)? Is this a policy violation or is it ok? I bet this guy has a good CTR with such a placement.

If the Adsense team will eventually check this website, will it be considered as MFA-style website and be deindexed because there is no real content there?
#ads #adsense #allowed #image
  • Profile picture of the author WealthWithin
    AdSense team doesn't de-index sites. Search quality team does.


    He might get penalized for the quality of the site, not for the placement.
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    • Profile picture of the author myste
      Originally Posted by WealthWithin View Post

      AdSense team doesn't de-index sites. Search quality team does.
      I know, but how does the search quality team determine which websites to check first?

      I mean, they can't manually check the whole Internet. So they check websites of adsense accounts who make around 100$ per day or more.

      I have also spoken to a person who had a lot of xfactor style mfa sites with like 5 pages of content and when his websites were checked, the websites were NOT deindexed, but the adsense ads disabled on those sites ( account was not banned ). The reason was: significant risk to adsense publishers or something like this.
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      • Profile picture of the author Nexus7
        Originally Posted by myste View Post

        I have also spoken to a person who had a lot of xfactor style mfa sites with like 5 pages of content and when his websites were checked, the websites were NOT deindexed, but the adsense ads disabled on those sites ( account was not banned ). The reason was: significant risk to adsense publishers or something like this.
        Well, at least we can rule out the Xfactor theme.

        It could have been a number of reasons. But the "risk to adsense advertisers" response tends to be TOS related.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nexus7
    It appears to be a header image, so it's not against their TOS. See here for images and adsense: Ad and image placement: a policy clarification - Inside AdSense

    I would make the image wider and use only one ad block under the post title.

    Some people do this and seem to get away with it:

    Adsense tip to boost clicks

    You might get a higher CTR but it looks spammy as hell. CPC might go down using image ads.
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  • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
    That's fine. The ads below/alongside images rule is for when users put up (say) four little images next to an advert to try and be deceptive (i.e. thus implying that the images you see correspond to each advert that appears)

    But yep, the ad placement in the site you linked to is fine.

    It's a poor site overall though that offers very little value to the user, hence I'd imagine that it could get its AdSense account closed.

    Originally Posted by myste View Post

    I know, but how does the search quality team determine which websites to check first?

    I mean, they can't manually check the whole Internet. So they check websites of adsense accounts who make around 100$ per day or more.

    I have also spoken to a person who had a lot of xfactor style mfa sites with like 5 pages of content and when his websites were checked, the websites were NOT deindexed, but the adsense ads disabled on those sites ( account was not banned ). The reason was: significant risk to adsense publishers or something like this.
    I personally think that the AdSense team check the sites (once they reach certain income barriers), and if they're very bad they'd refer them onto the search quality team.

    If they're just poor value, they'd just disable ads for the website or account.
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  • Profile picture of the author calfred
    I wouldn't risk putting that image at all at that position.

    Not worth the risk for an extra 10% CTR or so.
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