Google has officially disallowed AdSense publishers from placing images near Google Ads. The AdSense team says - “We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads.. That’s not a good experience for users or advertisers.”
However, as the two screenshots suggest, this “no image” rule may have been relaxed for Adsense Premium Publishers.
The surprising part is that these images are allowed though they have a direct relationship with the content of the web page. The page on cell phones carries the image of a woman talking on her cell phone.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/adsense-images-near-google-ads/1622/
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Reader Comments
Google is such a money minded organization. It will bend for “premium” users.
Doesnt this mean that those who have money can do whatever the want? Soon there would be bidding and people would be forced to pay more money even for “premium” services.
Written by Vivek on 10.24.07
So instead you just ditch Adsense and go with some higher paying ad networks. Google does a lot of harm. In my mind, favoritism is harm. It shows unfairness. If they can be unfair in this sense, they can be unfair in other areas, like personal data.
Written by Stephan Miller on 10.25.07