A very good but illegal blend of adsense.

www.stereo411.com/forum its cool how its blended but its against TOS right?

 

i can see a white border around the ads. quit bitchin'

 

first of all y is it showing ur banned and u can still post

ya that blend is good

 

That's some fancy blending you got there. I would like to see how you are going in a couple of weeks once Adsense team views it though.

 

I'll give them credit, it's certainly very ingenious. But it's also a violation of the tos. It's not worth a fast buck to get banned from AS.

 

Gawld I wish people would stop using the term 'Illegal', it is not a law!

 

Not sure on the violation - they do have a border around the ad as google requires.

 

I love the way it says 1 post next to the ads.

 

Yeah, TONS of sites do this, I hate them being allowed to.

 

I'm pretty sure if Google was to look at it then it would get supended or terminated. As mopacfan said, I wouldn't rish my account to make a few more $$$ for a couple of weeks.

 

ouch! thats ingeniuos!

 

Hmm, nice, but I would worry about many accidental clicks which lead to low
conversions which lead to smart pricing which leads to ... well, nothing ;-)

 

i think it is ok but the person need to remove the data at the side that says 1 Posts in 1 Topics Last post on Today, 2mins ago by. this the only problem i think google will have with his ad placement

 

Google would surely frown upon the "Sponsored Links!" text aswell.

 

Actually you're wrong.

https://www.google.com/adsense/policies

Go down to and read under the title Labeling Ads

 

Wow, that's clever.

 

I did something similar on one forum and I emailed google about it and they said it was ok, but I don't have that info on the right

 

This looks perfectly legal to me. However, very ugly for your forums. GL.

 

I kind of get the sense that the spirit of Google's rules is to not drastically change the layout of the page to accommodate ads. Rather, the ads are supposed to be small, unintrusive things that aren't referred to at all.

By that POV, I would say that building a big box and writing that stuff about recent posts, which is nonsense just to go along with the ad box, would be a violation.

But of course Google knows people design sites specifically to blend with their ads, and that's how the marketplace has naturally evolved, and they have to let a lot of stuff slide. So it would be interesting to see what they thought of this. Spirit of the law vs. reality

 

I had one doubt about "sponsored links" but thanks to GeorgeB its clear now.
I don't see any other way in which this site might be violating the TOS.

If you feel so then tell us where its going wrong.

jack
ps: Its not my forum or "my friends" or anyone I have heard of