How To Get Yourself Banned From Google Adsense
Posted by Justin on 20 October 2010
I'm a big fan of Adsense for monetising websites. It's the lazy way of getting advertisers on your website. However, when you put Adsense ads on your site, Google is essentially lending you their advertisers for a portion of the revenue earned from them. That means that you have to do whatever Google tells you.
One of the clearest terms of use of Adsense, apart from clicking your own ads, is that you cannot encourage people to click on the Google ads on your own website. The terms of service state:
"You shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) directly or indirectly generate queries, Referral Events, or impressions of or clicks on any Ad..."
Seems quite clear to me...but maybe not so clear to the owner of this website I came across today. Just take a look at this:
I have blurred the image in places slightly as I don't want to give away what the website is, but this is SOOOOOOOOOOO bad. Sorry, I mean SSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad.
You just don't do this. It's crazy really. Why would you risk your earnings like this? Hopefully the person whose website this is will see this post and correct it before Google catches them out.
Very naughty and very silly.
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