For those of you concerned about our optimization tips, we still recommend integrating your ad units and link units with your page content or navigation, in order to offer your users relevant ads in addition to the content they normally see. Here are a few examples of acceptable implementations:
However, in some instances we've found that publishers have placed their ad units so close to interactive (clickable) content that users accidentally click on the ads instead of the site content. While this type of ad placement may not inherently violate our program policies, it could increase the risk of invalid clicks being generated on the ads, which would be in violation of our policies.
You can understand that increasing the possibility of accidental clicks on your sites is not in the best interest of users or advertisers, and we wanted to make you aware of this risk. This is why we ask that you maintain sufficient distance between your ads and any elements of your page on which users may often click. Because every site is different, we can't provide you with the exact amount of space to put between these page elements. However, we hope you understand our reasoning, and we ask you to use your best judgment so as to avoid possible accidental clicks in the future.
To help you, here's an example of an ad placement that could have a high risk of generating accidental clicks, and which we'd recommend avoiding:
Thanks again for your cooperation and your feedback. If you have any questions about optimization techniques, feel free to visit our tips page.
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5 comments:
I have to say, this is totally ridiculous.
You're promoting a design that tries to trick users into clicking the Adsense ads and punishing people who do the opposite here.
From this post, it appears that it's totally fine to have a site navigation that looks exactly like the Adsense ads, and is positioned directly above them. That's an obvious attempt to deceive the user into clicking ads thinking that they're navigation elements.
However, if you have a drop-down menu that looks nothing like the ads, yet manages to overlap them in the slightest bit, that's bad practice?
I don't get how users are going to be, according to this post, smart enough to differentiate the first example yet dumb enough to "accidentally" click the ad in the second.
In any case, the above commenter is right. It doesn't exactly give your Adsense users confidence if you have Chinese porn spam comments showing up on your own blog. I wonder if that's against the TOS?
-nick
yay, more chinese porn spam. what is the proper way to flag blog comments? i cannot see any "flag this comment" link on blogger.
See the above navigation over ads example: http://dotnetuncle.com/security/aspnet-security.aspx There is a javascript hover menu (on left), which is waiting for user to click on ads by mistake :)
I thought of placing my adsense code inside a floating menu, This will not change the adsense code but the menu will go down as the user scrolls the page so that users can always view my ads. Is this violate the google adsense policy?
Really, AdSense is a real mistery!
:)
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