Is the following sentence allow?

[parasite1526]

Nope - don't do it. If you were an advertiser - would you want to advertise on sites that incentivised clicks on this way?

[parasite1526]

That's not necessarily true. The site in question never comes out and says for their visitors to click on their ads. They just say the site runs Google Advertising.

Of course I was always under the impression you should pretend the Google Ads DON'T EXIST, and never EVER mention it on your site, but maybe I'm wrong...

From thier site:

Why am i seeing ads
Like all sites that are published by AsianFanatics asianfanatics (http://asianfanatics."]http://asianfanatics.[/URL] net) this wiki-based database is also a free for all site. But hosting is never free, especially when we strive for a responsive webhost. Therefor, all the AsianFanatics asianfanatics (http://asianfanatics."]http://asianfanatics.[/URL] net) sites are hosted on dedicated servers which are quite expensive.

The sites are mostly funded with non-invasive yet contentrelated advertisement like Google-adsense.


That is asking for clicks. If you read the TOS the only word(s) you may put above the ad relating to it is 'sponsor' or 'sponsored by'

[parasite1526]

From thier site:

Why am i seeing ads
Like all sites that are published by AsianFanatics asianfanatics (http://asianfanatics."]http://asianfanatics.[/URL] net) this wiki-based database is also a free for all site. But hosting is never free, especially when we strive for a responsive webhost. Therefor, all the AsianFanatics asianfanatics (http://asianfanatics."]http://asianfanatics.[/URL] net) sites are hosted on dedicated servers which are quite expensive.

The sites are mostly funded with non-invasive yet contentrelated advertisement like Google-adsense.


That is asking for clicks. If you read the TOS the only word(s) you may put above the ad relating to it is 'sponsor' or 'sponsored by'



Where did you see that? This is the best I could find and I don't think it breaks the TOS at all:

http://faq.asianfanatics.net/article.php?id=077

They did label the ads with words like "google_leaderboard" and "google_ads" but it seems like they just forgot to remove them from the template. An understandable honest mistake.

[parasite1526]

good question, what about "this forum is supported by ad revenue"

[rooper20120]

It's okay to put the following sentence right above an adsense ads?

"This site is maintened with advertising income, read this to see why."

It's okay to stick your hand in someones pocket and steal their money?

[rooper20120]

so is the digitalpoint forum stated "This is an ad revenue sharing forum" directly below adsenses ads violates adsense TOS too?

DP is saying this is "This is an ad revenue sharing forum" and if you ever click on the link you'll get this -
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/faq.p...evenue_sharing
and As far as i can think it isnt a violation of TOS
but using a sentence like - this site is supported by Google adsense is sure violating TOS as it is explicitely stated in TOS - This includes encouraging users to click on the ads or to visit the advertisers' sites as well as drawing any undue attention to the ads.

So if you wudnt steal a handbag, u wudnt steal a car, u wudnt steal a kid's money, u wudnt steal a dog, u wudnt ask your visitors to pay attention to adsense.

[rooper20120]

So it should be ok?

"This is an ad revenue sharing forum" right below adsense ad?
The share is me 99.999999% all others share the rest.

[badboy10548]

When i said click on that link and READ what it says. this is 50/50 revenue share. Read this too - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=519 . and if you prefer not to read then please dont express your opinion without knowing the fact.
Thank you.

[rooper20120]

Go ahead do it. You are free soul to do anything you want.
nothing wrong in it. as far as I can see.

[rooper20120]

I guess most think "This is an ad revenue sharing forum" just meaning it's revenue sharing, and not encourage you to click, so it's allowable, while "This forum is supported by ads" encourage you to click, thus not allowed.

By think deeper, "This forum is supported by ads" is not encouraging viewers to click too...