Google Settles Issue - You Cannot Use Images Near Ads
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You CAN’T use an Adsense technique like this anymore
This one has been a long-time coming. The idea of placing small images near Google Adsense ads has been going on for over 14 months, and many people have used the trick to a greater or lessor degree. Personally, I used the trick and had great results in the early days, only suffer some severe backlash in the form of Google SmartPricing. The trick can be seen nearly everywhere these days, and is almost a sign of “low quality”.
For awhile, individuals have emailed Google and received differing replies. Well now the policy is clear.
I won’t even bother blockquoting the article. It’s real easy to understand. They say “NO” to all images near ads and even show examples of unacceptable ad placements, which will look like a lot of people’s websites.
I can hear the cries of untold webmasters who just got a quick pay cut on the road back to reality. If you have these images up, time for a redesign, and quick!
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5 Responses to “Google Settles Issue - You Cannot Use Images Near Ads”
It think it’s fair enough both for publisher and advertiser.
By ogene on Dec 19, 2006
Darren,
I always thought it was a little cheesy so I never did it but I have a lot of friends that did.
You are using Yahoo so you can still do it.
I have a question I ran across a post in a forum that said:
How I Made $7,462.90 in 51 Days using Google
It gos on to say that they are using both Adwords and Adsence to make this money.
Is this called arbitrage?
Can you explain arbitrage?
Thanks
Bill
By Bill on Dec 19, 2006
In a nutshell, it’s the practice of making a web page that displays Google Adsense. Make the page as bad as possible, so the only option is for the user to click on an Adsense Ad.
The way you get traffic is to buy the traffic from a third tier PPC search engine, and then you “resell” it back to Google in the form of clickthroughs from your website.
It’s as tough of a way to make money as any other, and doesn’t have any real long-term stability.
By Darren McLaughlin on Dec 19, 2006
It’s so typical of Google to tell people for months that some practice is OK, like using images next to ads, then yank the rug out from under them.
Hopefully some other search engine will knock them off their high horse someday.
This rule has nothing to do with “quality”. Most of the pages with the images look better than those without.
By Chris on Jan 8, 2007