Images Alongside Google Adsense Legal Again?

December 23, 2006 · Filed Under Contextual Advertising 
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Here is a comment by Bradfitz found in Darren Rowse post on Images Alongside Google Adsense. Read every word carefully.

Darren, thanks for the heads-up on this. I am very curious though, I noticed on your other sites (laptops, pda’s, cel phones, etc) You have not yet removed the images that line up with your leader-board Adsense ads.

I was always a bit surprised you used this tactic yourself, but even more so given the fact the there were no borders between your images and the ads, which the Adsense TOS required (suggested?) there to be before this new policy was released.

So give us the skinny… are you boycotting this new rule? Waiting for them to give you a warning? Waiting for your graphic designer to get to it? Is the horizontal leader-board/image association a loophole to the rule and this only applies to vertical blocks? Or do you secretly own Google now? :)

Cheers and thanks again for posting this.

Below is a screenshot of Darren Rowse’s music phone blog. I thought placing images alongside Google Adsense is illegal, not to mention made worst with no border between the ads and the image. I wonder, How did Darren manage to insert 4 Ad unit when Google Adsense says only 3 Ad units are allowed. Don’t believe me? Visit his Livingroom blog and count the number of Ad Unit.

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Comments


  1. Robert

    December 23rd, 2006
    1

    Just visit the site, the image was still there ad he has really 4 adsense ads which is against google TOS. Maybe he is not aware of it yet.


  2. kca

    December 24th, 2006
    2

    You cannot have more than 3 Google Ads, it will automatically stay at 3, even if you add 10 ads scripts. But some publisher have special treatment, just like Engadget who got more than 5 ads in a page. Maybe Darren got a special deal with Adsense. Need to be checked, but matter of fact it s not a big deal.


  3. Stijn V.

    December 29th, 2006
    3

    The images are gone but I’m actually counting 5 google ad units.

    *reads kca*

    Ok. Damn. Let’s go talk to Google, shall we.


  4. Steve

    January 7th, 2007
    4

    From what I’ve heard some of the higher Adsense earners are allowed to make special ‘arrangements’ with Google where they are allowed more Adsense units.

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