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10 Google Adsense No No’s

Following up from my previous post about Googlecide, you can also kill yourself if you are in a rush to make money. Google regulates it’s adsense in a lot of similar ways as it does its search. Google mainly does this because they have a good reputation for publishing ads on a quality websites, and delivering high return on investments (ROI) to advertisers.

1.) Don’t commit Googlecide

First things first – you can’t commit googlecide or else you’ll be finding yourself banned from adsense as well. Google has quality to assure its end users and advertisers, and the only way they can do that is if their name only appears on quality websites.

Go back and read my post on Googlecide if you haven’t already.

2.) DO NOT Click your own Ads

It can be tempting to earn some more $$ by clicking your own ads, but google has really tightened down on this. No matter how well you think your tracks are covered, watch out! Google will probably find out.

On another note – if you live in a family household it might also be a good idea to let your family know that you don’t need their help clicking the ads. Let your family know about your good standing with Google, and how important it is for all clicks to be organic.

3.) Make sure your ads are visible, don’t hide them!

Hey, why not make your ads the same color as your sites background right? Hide them by camouflaging them with busy background images; after all… you still get paid for page views. While this can be tempting, it’s against Google’s Terms of Service and they’ll catch you.

Clicks pay a lot better than page impressions/views, so make your ads visible in places where people will click them. Google makes the ads targeted so they will be related to your content.

4.) Begging for ad clicks = bad idea

A lot of webmasters will try to “hint” that you should click ads, or sometimes even hold contests to see who will click the most ads. Or I even get the occasional webmaster hitting me up on IM asking for me to go to the website and click ads. Don’t do this, Google has magical ESP powers and will ban you.

Also, do not categorize your ads or title them with anything more than “sponsored links.” It’s against Google’s terms of service to call them anything. When google catches you doing this, you’ll get suspended.

5.) Change the code Adsense gives you

When you create an ad in Adsense, you are given a snippet of code to put where you want your ads to show up. Do not edit the code, it’s against Google’s Terms and leads them to think you are trying to cheat advertisers. Great way to get banned, bad way to make $$.

6.) Automated Proxy Clicker Bots

Sounds like something from the future, huh? But a lot of webmasters are using these special bots. They use proxies and robots which automatically click Ads. The problem for people trying this – google has really sophisticated catching methods, and this is one of the main reasons webmasters get banned.

Going along side of this – there are a lot of tempting human-powered setups to get Google Clicks (like trade systems). Google will ban you for trying these, because hey… If advertisers wanted to do these schemes, they’d just sign up themselves, right?

7.) Use those Adsense “Packages”

There are a bunch of “Full Content Packages” with hundreds of articles on niche topics that a lot of people try to sell. Google sees these as duplicate content, and will not only deindex you from the Search, but they may suspend your Adsense account as well.

Use your own content, be original!

8.) Make Ad-Only pages

It seems stupid that anyone would do this anyway, but some sneaky webmasters will try and create an entire page with nothing but ads and a few “keywords” hidden around the page. Google states in its guidelines that “Weather or not the page content is relevant” you just can’t make pages to “Hang Ads.” This is because Google Adsense sells advertising to Advertisers based on “Content Matching” not “Ad Hanging.”

Make every page have a content-driven target. Don’t just make pages to put ads, make pages to place content. This is the best way to safeguard your bets with Google Adsense.

9.) Use “Taboo” Topics on your site

Google straight out prohibits the placement of ads on sites containing content with firearms, tobacco, alcohol, weapons, and drugs. And well, Google is “Keyword” based, so if they see these keywords it’ll be a surefire bet to fire off some red flags. Use some common sense; only place your ads on safe topics.

If your site uses one of these topics, Adsense isn’t for you.

10.) Don’t keyword Flood

There are a lot of scripts which try to “Adsense Bomb” your ads to show different ads and keywords (Sometimes containing higher CPCs). But this is like Googlebombing, google will catch it – it’s just a matter of time. Google has a lot of really complex algorithms for figuring these tricks out, and they will get you banned.

Conclusion

This is not a “full list” of ways to get banned from Google Adsense, but it should give some basic insight. Don’t get trapped by all the schemes out on the internet to help you “EARN MORE WITH ADSENSE.” Most of these have saturated the market, and google has already setup filters to detect and ban them automatically. Play it safe, follow the basic guidelines, and use some common sense. If you are trying to trick Google, you are going to lose.

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