Comments on: Avoid tricks when placing ads

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:59:13 +0000

Thilak, its on the to-do list already! I will write about it as soon as possible and I have some useful stuff to say on that topic.

By: Thilak

Thilak — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:34:29 +0000

I will agree with you. I really like the way you monetized this blog. No Ads, just simple sponsored boxes. Honestly, as a reader, I won’t mind you placing those ads.

Maybe, you need to write a post on how you manged to trickle direct advertisements

By: marcel

marcel — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:10:14 +0000

Not all markets like to click. The tech market especially.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:06:35 +0000

Mike, yeah Adsense consider those techniques illegal. There are several others, though, that are legal according the TOS and still deceive the reader. For example placing the Adsense link unit on the place of the navigation bar. The clueless visitor usually clicks there thinking that its an internal link of the blog.

By: Mike Rothermel

Mike Rothermel — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:23:38 +0000

I believe it’s also illegal to attempt to trick someone into clicking an ad, by telling them to click on it, promising to reward them, putting arrows or other things bringing attention to the ad, or doing the “reccomended links” lie.

Yeah, I read through the Adsense TOS recently. Haha.