This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this thread.
I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! -AdSensePro
They said...regret always come late.. That's true... when 1st time i join adsense, i didn't read its policy.. I always like to read & click some adv when i'm surfing the internet. Cos usually adv by google always related with the topics. I also do this click to my own web...and due to i want to know how effective this click adv ...i do self test click. Few days ago, I realized that self click is prohibated...and today adsense disabled my account.... I;m so sad...i didn't post anything in my blog since the day i found out its prohibited to do self click. I don't know whether in future ad sense can re-active my account again...
Don't do like I do...self click. U'll regret it for sure!!!
> This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > thread.
> I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! > -AdSensePro
While I welcome the opportunity to encourage clicks on referrals, I do think it's something that runs the risk of confusing Adsense publishers.
It's very easy to say 'you can't click on anything, nothing, never' but as soon as you start saying 'except this, and except that' those policies become harder to understand. This situation is hardly helped when the Adsense Terms still state:
"You shall not promote or facilitate a Referral Event by any means other than displaying a Referral Button on the Site, unless expressly authorized in writing by Google (including by electronic mail)."
Unless these forum posts are considered to be 'authorization'?
The Program Policies still state "Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited. Failure to comply with this policy may lead to your account being disabled." yet we know that both referrals and link units can be clicked so this too is misleading. Yes, the Terms have been amended so that 'ads' now means just ads but that distinction is not clearly made within the Program Policy document and has led to other misleading entires. The Policies state that:
"A site or third party cannot display our ads, search box, search results or referral buttons as a result of the actions of any software application such as a toolbar."
Does this mean we CAN put LINK UNITS in a software application since they're no longer specifically covered by 'ads'?
This board is packed with people asking questions about the policies and often following suspension or a ban and while I'm usually a staunch defender of Google I do feel that the Program Policies and Terms need careful revision to ensure that they don't present rules that openly conflict with instructions and guidance offered elsewhere by Google.
> This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > thread.
> I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! > -AdSensePro
AdSensePro will you answer our questions ? or you just want us to answer each other that will mean no answer is 100% correct and people can get banned for following another user answer............
Can i make a website and explain to visitors about adsense sistem and put there ONLY the referal button for adsense sign up ? can i tell then to click on that button and join adsense ?
> This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > thread.
> I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! > -AdSensePro
I have been running AdSense ads on my websites since Sep. of last year. I did ponder that issue quite a bit. I think that the policy proves to be valid. If someone comes to my website and sees an ad that he or she likes without me saying a word of encouragement, there's a chance that they will end up being interested in the products or services in a long run. It's just common sense. Well, it is beneficial for the advertisers but at the same time I will not make as much as an affiliate. But that's ok.
I have also noticed that most "big dogs" who are using AdSense never say more than a simple: "Sponsored links" (although they could have used the policy more loosely). I wonder if they know something that others sitll don't? I wonder if the integrity actually pays off at the end. I am sure it does.
> ZANVI this forum is for help remember that next time you want to > drive trafic to your blog you are useing people and not helping with > your post here i hate people like you and guess what another user that > hates people like you might just click your ads there untill you get > banned how you like that ? ( rest assure i have better things to do > then to ban you so don`t worry about me )
> please next time try to answer a question if you know the answer the > you can post your page to drive trafic.... its enoying how some people > just use others.
> > > This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > > > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > > > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > > > thread.
> > > I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! > > > -AdSensePro- Hide quoted text -
> AdSensePro will you answer our questions ? or you just want us to > answer each other that will mean no answer is 100% correct and people > can get banned for following another user answer............
> Can i make a website and explain to visitors about adsense sistem and > put there ONLY the referal button for adsense sign up ? can i tell > then to click on that button and join adsense ?
> On Apr 26, 8:32 pm, AdSensePro wrote:
I have written a post about referring visitors to referral buttons/ links, including a link to AdSense site that says we are allowed to do it plus a screenshot of that site as a permanent record your or I can refer to if ever needed. See post http://generating-revenue-from-your-site.blogspot.com/2007/03/now-you...
I would suggest that if you reveal that you get paid for the click then you're leaving yourself open to either people clicking it to 'help' you or not clicking it because they don't want you to be paid (or because they worry they'll be charged somehow). Bear in mind that referrals are doubly complex in that the 'conversion' point may differ from product to product so it's not actually true to simply say 'I receive $2 if you follow this link'. It may be that the product must be installed, that it must be the *first* install or that it must be installed and 'run' or any other conversion target.
I'm not sure ethics need raise their head - you're not taking money from the readers and the producers of the referral product have made their own decisions about how much each install is worth so they know the costs involved. No one is being 'duped' here.
I think this is why Adsense stress so heavily that you should encourage clicks on products that you personally (or corporately) endorse. If you believe it's a good product then your endorsement has a value and that value is the referral fee. To my mind there's no ethical issue.
It very definitely is an ethical issue. If I endorse a product, give it a favourable review and otherwise plug it to my readership they have a right to know that I'm making a personal profit from the deal. Admittedly, it only gets really unethical if you think the product sucks but plug it anyway.
I should point out, btw, that I'm talking hypothetically here - I don't think anybody out there would care what I think about referral products, and I don't have any referral links on my site anyway - but I think it's an area that's worth exploring.
GOogle has terminated my friend's account because he did encourage others people to click on their pages. SO they are very serious about this problem.
The best thing to do is not to encourage others to click on the GOogle ads in any way
///////////////////////// Footer /////////////////////////// Author: Tom Author's web Site: http://www.1pennyStock.com ( Good Stocks ) Author quote: "You either be the King of men, or the pawn of kings"
> This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > thread.
> I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! > -AdSensePro
My case is that i was banned and actually donbt know why, the google team said that i have invalid click... I guess that it could be my section "encuentros" quere you can rate pix from many people, its scrip embebed in html. and every time u vote a new window is randomly selected with other picture, i guess that u can see many click from a same ip, because generaly one guess vote many pix. I´m asking google team to reviw my situation and unbann my account, i will make any arragement they suggest but is unfair to ban me. At least thats waht i thing, so please try to make me undertand waht was my fault and how to make it right but dont leave out of adsense!
> This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > thread.
> I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! > -AdSensePro
The google ad service is built on a fragile system of "content based delivery" where people who are looking for a specific topic get interested on an ad and visit its sponsor. This fragile system would break down if everyone starts looking for loopholes and variations to justify clicks that is not entirely intended by the visitor. Embedding codes, enticing clicks by proximity to other hyperlinks, requesting for support through ad clicking (directly or indirectly) etc damage the system.
Forget about "making money through adsense", think about "earning money through adsense". Earn your well deserved pay by tightening the screws, getting good content, targeting a specific demography or service sector, bringing legit traffic. There are thousands of webmasters who have done well with this approach and there is enough room for a whole lot more of them.
Thank you for letting me interject. Have a nice day.
I understand that an image to encourage a click is wrong. But how about an image just to catch the eye so people see the ad? Can I put a very small picture of my cat, with a caption: "ours" under it, near my two ads, just so people take a look? (There will be no cat ads on my site.)
> This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > thread.
> I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! > -AdSensePro
Its good policy and we must also follow BUT , if any other person who is rival or don't want me to run adsense , can click on ad and create invalid click. How that situation googlee is maintaining? since the main objective is to protect advertiser from invalid click then google may deduct that amount for invalid click instead of disabling the account. If account being disabled then publisher will be suffering. One of my friend's adsense accounts being disabled , as per his say that he never click on any of his ad or never tried for invalid click but one day he found the surge of 30 doller income in a day and after that day he received a mail saying that account being disabled. was having about 50 doller in his account, after disabled he will not being paid. Now question is that , who is receiving 50 dollar, that was genuine income. I beliove that thos 50 dollar was not return to advertiser. He was having very bad impression on google for it. Is it not possible to deduct invalid click instead of disabling the account , so publishers will also be in safe mind.
> This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > thread.
> I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! > -AdSensePro
This policy is not very fair. I'm in the very same situation as your friend..... I have been working hard on my website for the last two months, and I have earned 54 dollars. Because last week some made 'invalid clicks' on my site, google adsense disabled my account. I have also got an adwords account and I have paid to date over 70 dollars for clicks to my website. If I earned 50 dollars and now they decide to close the account. Why don't they give me back the 70 dollars they charged me. Probably somebody click 50 times in my logo of some other website.i will like to know if somebody have a addres or phone nomber from google adsense to contact them to know if they will open my account again.if somebody can help me , please write me at [email address] thank you!
> Its good policy and we must also follow BUT , if any other person who > is rival or don't want me to run adsense , can click on ad and create > invalid click. How that situation googlee is maintaining? since the > main objective is to protect advertiser from invalid click then google > may deduct that amount for invalid click instead of disabling the > account. If account being disabled then publisher will be suffering. > One of my friend's adsense accounts being disabled , as per his say > that he never click on any of his ad or never tried for invalid click > but one day he found the surge of 30 doller income in a day and after > that day he received a mail saying that account being disabled. was > having about 50 doller in his account, after disabled he will not > being paid. Now question is that , who is receiving 50 dollar, that > was genuine income. I beliove that thos 50 dollar was not return to > advertiser. He was having very bad impression on google for it. > Is it not possible to deduct invalid click instead of disabling the > account , so publishers will also be in safe mind.
> On Apr 26, 1:32 pm, AdSensePro wrote:
> > This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > > thread.
> > I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! > > -AdSensePro- Hide quoted text -
Last I checked, your money is not forfeit if they close your account. You are allowed to request payment if the account is closed, as long as the amount is over $10. Anyone know if this is still truth or if this applies to disabled accounts?
> This policy is not very fair. I'm in the very same situation as your > friend..... I have been working hard on my website for the last two > months, and I have earned 54 dollars. Because last week some made > 'invalid clicks' on my site, google adsense disabled my account. I > have also got an adwords account and I have paid to date over 70 > dollars for clicks to my website. If I earned 50 dollars and now they > decide to close the account. Why don't they give me back the 70 > dollars they charged me. Probably somebody click 50 times in my logo > of some other website.i will like to know if somebody have a addres or > phone nomber from google adsense to contact them to know if they > will open my account again.if somebody can help me , please write me > at [email address] > thank you!
> On May 2, 11:58 am, "[email address]" wrote:
> > Its good policy and we must also follow BUT , if any other person who > > is rival or don't want me to run adsense , can click on ad and create > > invalid click. How that situation googlee is maintaining? since the > > main objective is to protect advertiser from invalid click then google > > may deduct that amount for invalid click instead of disabling the > > account. If account being disabled then publisher will be suffering. > > One of my friend's adsense accounts being disabled , as per his say > > that he never click on any of his ad or never tried for invalid click > > but one day he found the surge of 30 doller income in a day and after > > that day he received a mail saying that account being disabled. was > > having about 50 doller in his account, after disabled he will not > > being paid. Now question is that , who is receiving 50 dollar, that > > was genuine income. I beliove that thos 50 dollar was not return to > > advertiser. He was having very bad impression on google for it. > > Is it not possible to deduct invalid click instead of disabling the > > account , so publishers will also be in safe mind.
> > On Apr 26, 1:32 pm, AdSensePro wrote:
> > > This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > > > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > > > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > > > thread.
> > > I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! > > > -AdSensePro- Hide quoted text -
> Can i make a website and explain to visitors about adsense sistem and > put there ONLY the referal button for adsense sign up ? can i tell > then to click on that button and join adsense ?
don't use the "click this" etc languages! you can actively promote the referral products, use this type of text, "i monitorise my site with adsense and it pays me a lot, and i recomend adsense to others"
or something like, mozila is the best browers for internet, and it has tabbed browsing. it is better than internet explorer, and i recomend it"
don't say click here, mozila is good, this is not really accepted. if you visitor things that mozila is really good, or the other referal products are good, they will use those themselves!!
AdSensePro wrote: > This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > thread.
Actually, that posting on Inside AdSense is misleading because it doesn't reflect the updated policy on ad labeling. It USED to be that you couldn't label the ads with anything other than "Advertisements" or "Sponsored Links", but that language has been removed from the official policies. See my post here for the details:
>From my experience, common sense covers a lot of ground about how to
display Google's AdSense zones.
The ads (as they currently stand) are obvious enough, especially since the publisher can choose the colors and size, that (in my opinion) they don't need more "hints" to explain the "intended use". People click links, pay-per-click or otherwise. It's that simple!
Publishers should focus on creating uniquely appealing web destinations instead of trying to broadly (or specifically) convince people to click PPC ads, not just to respect the TOS (which is obviously the primary directive, anyway) but also to give a reason to their visitors to come back again.
If you work hard and create value (within the TOS guidelines), you're bound to enjoy a long, happy "publisher" relationship with Google AdSense. Do no evil. Work hard. Create value. It works!
> This week's policy blog post is about encouraging clicks, including > explicitly inciting clicks, bringing undue attention to ads, labeling > ads, etc. Please feel free to post your questions and comments on this > thread.
> I hope this helps clear up any questions you might have! > -AdSensePro
|
