| Author | Comment |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 28 Feb 2006
16:41 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Hey guys (those who are hosted by us and display our ads to help with costs),
Please make sure to not encourage users to click on ads, users should elect whether they want to click on some ad content that interests them and we should in no way encourage that. This is important to keep in mind since doing so will violate Google's ad polies and will lead to termination of our account which is critical to our site's operation. I'm not going to point any finger, just asking those who display our ads to check their pages and make sure they're free of any ad clicking encouragements, we don't encourage users to click on ads on main site so you shouldn't either.
If you do encourage visitors to click on ads, please take it off and just leave ads on their own. I hope this matter is taken seriously and thanks for your support if you display our ads. I appreciate everyone's time looking into this to make sure we can stay alive.
Thanks.
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TI Freak
Probe
Posted: 28 Feb 2006
18:31 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | Well, I will point a finger, back at my self. I am sorry about that and it as removed. I didn't know that it would violate anything, I just thought it would help... |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 28 Feb 2006
19:54 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | No problem as long as its fixed :). Their policy basically says that one may not do anything that would attract user's attention to a banner. That even includes coloring, arrows and such even if it doesn't verbally ask people to click. Generally speaking banners need to be just seen by users w/t any implied suggestions or pointers from the site pointing at them. They made it rather clear in email to me so let's make sure we're all clear on that in the future.
Thanks for quick responce btw and other hosted sites who display our banners, please take a note of that as well.
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Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 28 Feb 2006
20:02 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | I will point another finger (at myself) and remove that flash page posthaste.
EDIT: And spell point right...
[Edited by Lunchbox on 02-Mar-06 00:59] |
TI Freak
Probe
Posted: 28 Feb 2006
20:16 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | Is there something in there that would keep me from advertising the search box? I am just curious... :) |
JcCorp
Probe
Posted: 1 Mar 2006
05:31 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | I will point a finger at myself. I don't have a banner for you guys... don't worry, one will be up shortly. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 1 Mar 2006
20:52 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Banners are not required Jc, it's up to you on whether or not put them up so no hard feelings. As with searchbox advertising, I don't think there's anything wrong with it since Google in fact wants people to search thru them. Have a look at Google policy to make sure we're all good: https://www.google.com/adsense/policies
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Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 1 Mar 2006
21:27 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | That's kinda cool, but un-googleishly legal imo. |
Andy
Administrator
Posted: 2 Mar 2006
04:50 GMT
Total Posts: 939 | >>> * Clicks on Google ads must not result in a new browser window being launched.
We need to fix that. |
