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[rooper20120]

Hello fellows.

Quick question: someone wants to pay me to display banners on my website. Is it against TOS?

I'm ALMOST POSITIVE that it isn't, but I rather be sure.

Thanks everyone.

[rooper20120]

nope... it is ok...

[rooper20120]

Definitely a problem, publishers have been warned for doing this. It causes issues because it is above the number of ad units allowed, and because it also has the ad network's adsense publisher code, and you cannot run two publisher IDs on the same page during the same page view.

All of the ad networks I am aware of that run AdSense offer an "opt-out" option for AdSense, so that publishers don't have to worry about being in violation.

And as a side note, some advertisers run AdSense-lookalike ads (the most familiar ones being the recent Vontage ads) which would also put a publisher in violation, so you need to watch for those and disable them as needed.

[badboy10548]

Wow, this sure is scary, imagine loosing your account for something as dumb as this!

Thanks a lot for the heads up, I will email my network right now asking how can I disable those ads.

[rooper20120]

You're welcome Not sure if anyone would lose an account over this (well, unless you don't comply when they ask you to change it, lol), but most publishers I know don't want to rack up any warnings on their accounts either

[rooper20120]

I decided to ask Google.

This was the response.

Hello xxxxxxxxx,

Thank you for your email regarding placing an advertising banner on your
site. I understand you would like some clarification on our competing ads
policy. To be more specific, we do not permit Google ads to be published
on web pages that also contain what could be considered competing ads.
This would include all content-targeted ads as well as text-based ads. We
do allow affiliate or limited-text links, but we do not allow text-based
ads that either directly mimic or attempt to be associated with Google
ads.

Our intent with this policy is to be as fair to our advertisers as
possible and to maintain the integrity of the AdWords and AdSense
programs. This means limiting the other types of ads that AdSense
publishers display along with our ads.

For additional questions, please visit our AdSense Support site at
https://www.google.com/support/adsense or feel free to reply to this
email.

We'd also like to encourage you to let us know how we can improve our
customer support. Please take a few minutes to fill out our brief survey
at http://www.insightexpress.com/s/Goog...position=true.

Your input is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Spencer
The Google AdSense Team


My situation is that a person simply wants to pay me money so that I place a single image with a link to his website.

The image would be nowhere near the adsense banners and they don't look anything like them. But I don't think the guys over at Google understood that, so I elaborated on another email.

Let's wait to see what they say.

[badboy10548]

Definitely not against ToS.

[rooper20120]

Definitely not against the TOS unless the ad also happens to be a giant flashing arrow pointing at your AdSense ads too

Now that would be a dead give-away.

[parasite1526]

Are we allowed to run adsense and display adult/casino ads on the same page?