adsense and forumpromotion

[Beetle King]

Is it safe to use adsense with forumpromotion or other promotion forum? How about other advisement network? Does anybody get banned here?

 

[iPhonefreak]

Like to put your own ad in your sig?

 

[User500]

Like to put your own ad in your sig?

I think he means is it safe to promote your forum on FP and have Adsense on the site.

 

[pandaa]

Yes, you can advertise your forum and use AdSense. They may ban you for other reasons though, Google is very ban happy.

 

[smithjohn]

Yes,,AdSense is pretty much the equivalent of a magazine selling ad space

 

[E07.NET]

I would say that never use forums if you are using Adsense, they would ban you..

Referral traffic is not considered in Adsense..

 

[pandaa]

I would say that never use forums if you are using Adsense, they would ban you..

Referral traffic is not considered in Adsense..

This is false. Here's their terms of service regarding referrals. The only thing they prohibit is directly encouraging people to click on ads. If any referrals were considered to be false, then how would you even bring people to your website?

Spoiler

Prohibited Uses. You shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) directly or indirectly generate queries, Referral Events, or impressions of or clicks on any Ad, Link, Search Result, or Referral Button (including without limitation by clicking on “play” for any video Ad) through any automated, deceptive, fraudulent or other invalid means, including but not limited to through repeated manual clicks, the use of robots or other automated query tools and/or computer generated search requests, and/or the unauthorized use of other search engine optimization services and/or software; (ii) edit, modify, filter, truncate or change the order of the information contained in any Ad, Link, Ad Unit, Search Result, or Referral Button, or remove, obscure or minimize any Ad, Link, Ad Unit, Search Result, or Referral Button in any way without authorization from Google; (iii) frame, minimize, remove or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display of any Web page accessed by an end user after clicking on any part of an Ad ("Advertiser Page"), any Search Results Page, or any Referral Page; (iv) redirect an end user away from any Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page; provide a version of the Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page that is different from the page an end user would access by going directly to the Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page; intersperse any content between the Ad and the Advertiser Page, between the page containing the Search Box and the Search Results Page, or between the Referral Button and the Referral Page; or otherwise provide anything other than a direct link from an Ad to an Advertiser Page, from the page containing the Search Box to the Search Results Page, or from the Referral Button to the Referral Page; (v) display any Ad(s), Link(s), or Referral Button(s) on any Web page or any Web site that contains any pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content; (vi) directly or indirectly access, launch, and/or activate Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons through or from, or otherwise incorporate the Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons in, any software application, Web site, or other means other than Your Property(ies), and then only to the extent expressly permitted by this Agreement; (vii) "crawl", "spider", index or in any non-transitory manner store or cache information obtained from any Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Events, or any part, copy, or derivative thereto; (viii) act in any way that violates any Program Policies posted on the Google Web Site, as may be revised from time to time, or any other agreement between You and Google (including without limitation the Google AdWords program terms); (ix) disseminate malware; (x) create a new account to use the Program after Google has terminated this Agreement with You as a result of your breach of this Agreement; or (xi) engage in any action or practice that reflects poorly on Google or otherwise disparages or devalues Google’s reputation or goodwill. You acknowledge that any attempted participation or violation of any of the foregoing is a material breach of this Agreement and that we may pursue any and all applicable legal and equitable remedies against You, including an immediate suspension of Your account or termination of this Agreement, and the pursuit of all available civil or criminal remedies.

 

[Fergal]

I would say that never use forums if you are using Adsense, they would ban you....

Some really large forums run Adsense ads on them and are very successful with Adsense. Before putting Adsense on any site, you should check that the pages where you do put Adsense don't have content that breaches the Adsense content guidelines as outlined here.

 

[Alex P]

The thing is if majority of visitors are coming from referral sites and less visitors are coming from search engine then you are in question line.

 

[Fergal]

The thing is if majority of visitors are coming from referral sites and less visitors are coming from search engine then you are in question line.

Can you please give us a little more info and background on that? It's not something I've heard before.