Comments on: Three Tips For Staying Out Of AdSense Jail

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:51:26 +0000

Nope — I raised this possibility with Google over the phone last week, and they insisted that they were infallible. LOL.

@Rusty — thanks. One thing that you might try is posting a re-writing project on scriptlance. You will get tons of bids. That will help you find someone you can work with as there is feedback you can see for most bidders.

By: Vermont web Design

Vermont web Design — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:02:49 +0000

You got figure that sometimes Google makes mistakes.

Allen

By: Rusty

Rusty — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:09 +0000

The text encouraging users to refresh will get you banned but I doubt it would get de-indexed. Artificial refresh is treated the same as artificial clicks and is a sure way to be banned.

I suspect some of the PLR might have been stolen from the site it originally came from. Maybe not, I could claim I held the copyright. Submit a DCMA complain and boom, it’s all over.

You should never use PLR word for word, it should always be re-written.

I get a lot out of your blog and helpful links! I needed a refresher on long tail and I got it yesterday from your $5.00 a day, I think you said in 7 days. I think it will take longer than 7 days as I write so slow because I make so many mistakes. LOL Never the less, $5.00 a day would be nice.

I need a re-writer but I have my doubts about how good they are.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:23:48 +0000

Mark, yes I have made what I hope are the needed changes as per
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35843
and then submitted my site for reinclusion via the link at the Google Webmasters page.

Here’s hoping.

But I dont expect it to re-appear this week.

Gary

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:23:32 +0000

@Gandree — Well, I cannot speak for Google, and I am not an attorney. However, I have a discosure and Privacy policy in the footer that you might be interested to see.

@George(Gary) — Glad you came out of the closet (so to speak). Are you planning on asking Google to review your site?

Thanks,
Mark

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:20:47 +0000

@Al; Well, rhetorically, I really don’t care so much as long as I am converting visitors that I am paying good money for.

Actually, though, I understand what you mean. For example I would be very careful where I allowed MasonWorld.com banners to be placed.

In the end though, even that is a financial consideration (brand protection).

Regards,
Mark

By: Allyn

Allyn — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:16:46 +0000

Great topic and excellent reminders mark.
I think the key issue in all of this is the unique and useful content. Google does not want their ads displaying on sites that are strictly “made for adsense” and little value other than that.
Like you said, Google wants their advertisers to be displayed places that are above board.

My question to you is (rhetorical): leaving adsense out of the picture, would you have personally advertised your own business on George’s site? Or would you not want your customers or collegues to see you there for fear they may think badly of you?
Follow my line of thinking?

By: I am "George"

I am "George" — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:10:19 +0000

Hello Mark,
And thanks for posting about this. It’s important to be alert to previously-unidentified risks.

Folks, I am the “George” that Mark is writing about.

Big Blogger, the Google email was sent to my Adsense account email address.

Re: the other block. I’ve now added the optional link inside the adbox which shows it comes from a non-Google source. Check it out at Harmedia.com and I look forward to seeing what you folks think. Will this be acceptable to Google? — or should I remove it entirely?

Thanks in advance,
Gary

PS:

By the way, Mark has been great in terms of help with this issue.

By: Gandree

Gandree — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:46:29 +0000

Can you give us an example of a disclaimer that Google would find acceptable?

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:09:45 +0000

Glad that was helpful.

For the record, I am not an attorney (I don’t even play an attorney on TV). If you want advice about disclosures and privacy policies, you should consult your attorney. Nothing in this post or on this website should be considered legal advice.

Phew.

LOL.

By: Barbra Sundquist

Barbra Sundquist — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:56:03 +0000

Mark, I was about to ask if you could point me to an example of privacy and disclosure policies – when I looked at the bottom of your page and noticed your policies there. And the link to http://www.disclosurepolicy.org was most helpful – thank you.

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:57:24 +0000

Thanks Patrik — I agree that they seem really sensitive about competing Ads. Glad to hear about your great track record with them.

Have a great day.

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:54:54 +0000

Alex;

Great question — I am not sure and I forgot to ask.

Sorry to hear about your other site. That is a real bummer.

Regards,
Mark

By: Big Blogger

Big Blogger — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:40:10 +0000

George had just gotten a generic email from Google

Interesting. Did he got the email on the adress given on the page or on the email of the Adsense account ?

I got a similar experience: one of my blogs got de-indexed, although I never got emails from Google, nor the Adsense earnings from that site were deleted. That site is still de-indexed but I’m still earning some cents from traffic that arrives directly from social networks.

I guess I got deindexed because I was heavily using search results to generate page content and this actually is against the Adsense TOS.

Recently I deleted all this pages and asked Google for re-submissions, but up to date nothing happened. I guess I’ll pull the content off that blog and put it on a new one and let the old domain expire.

ciao
alex

By: Patrik Berggren

Patrik Berggren — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:55:22 +0000

I have never got adsense ads removed from a site nor banned since I started making money with AdSense 3 years ago. One reason is if I show ads from google competitors I don’t do it at the same time.

It’s always intresting to read about this subject. Hope I remind it when I need to have this info 😮