AdSense In Email

[ruggent18200]

It's widely known that Google is looking into the ability to displaying AdSense in email. But I was looking over the AdSense terms, and saw this:


Prohibited Uses:
(v) display any Ad(s) on any error page, registration or "thank you" page (e.g. a page that thanks a user after he/she has registered with the applicable Web site), or in any email or on any Web page or any Web site that contains any pornographic, hate-related or violent content
The terms specifically state you can't display them on pornographic or hate emails, but does that mean you can on other emails right now? Well, I already know you *can*, but is it within the terms to do so?

- Shawn

[parasite1526]

Hi

The short answer as I read it is NO

or in any email

this says you can't as it goes on to say

or on .....

which means that this is read in isolation.

However I must admit their diction is not very good.

I had a problem with them where they said "only one adsense ad per page" - which is what I did - except that if you use frames you can load a number of pages at one time. So I pointed this out to them and they altered their terms of usage [about a month ago]!

[ruggent18200]

Maybe they are just preping the terms for when the AdSense can be displayed in emails. At least easily... As I mentioned previously, I was mucking around with them for fun (because I'm a dork), and you can make them work in email as it is now. It's just a little tricky.

- Shawn

[ruggent18200]

I hadn't tried to put them in an email

Why is it tricky?

[ruggent18200]

Try it... it's more than a copy/paste, and then even when you *do* get it working, you need to "trick" it into serving non-PSA ads.

- Shawn

[ruggent18200]

Try it... it's more than a copy/paste, and then even when you *do* get it working, you need to "trick" it into serving non-PSA ads.

- Shawn

Mmmmm.....quite

I can do normal type pages with html [I set the code in a normal html page] but it doesn't like this too much does it? [I use FMP with popit and smtpit as a mail client with full html ability so I can send and receive html pages but view in a browser]

[ruggent18200]

That's another thing, in the email clients I tested it with I never got it working in Entourage or Mail.app on OS X. Which seem to lack the full JavaScript support necessary. But it did work in Outlook Express and the full version of Outlook on Windows (depending on your Internet security settings).

- Shawn

[ruggent18200]

Yep I found the same with the mail.app on OSX - didn't test it with Eudora though - might do that next

[ruggent18200]

ok good luck with it! Probably depends on the settings with the email client also...

[ruggent18200]

It is against the TOS anyway, dude.