It’s been 4 years have started monetizing my site with Adsense back in Feb 2009 and I realized no matter how many Adsense alternatives we talk about, Adsense is by far one of the best contextual and highest paying ad network for any blogger.
I have already shared some of the working tips to increase Adsense revenue but as I mentioned, Adsense is very strict about Adsense TOS and you have to take care of certain things to stop violating Adsense policies. We all know, getting Adsense approval is not that easy and we need to do many things to keep our Adsense account active. Recently, I got an Email from Adsense team saying “Adsense serving has been disabled on one of my site” and I realize it’s the right time to update this post and make new Adsense publishers aware of Adsense policies and things to avoid, which may lead to account ban.
Little out of context but since 2011, when Google launched Google panda, they also made some major changes in Adsense quality guidelines. Specially, in 2011-2012 we have noticed many Indian and Pakistani Adsense publisher has been banned due to copyright violation and due to low quality pages. Another major reason for Adsense ban is invalid click, which is al-together a big topic and I will cover it on another post.
Though Google Adsense is very strict about the policies and as I mentioned on my previous post of why I removed Global translator plugin to save my self from getting banned from Google Adsense.
These are the simple mistakes you and Adsense publisher should avoid to get themselves banned :
Understand Adsense TOS and Stop violating Adsense Policies:
Invalid Clicks:
This is where the maximum Adsense account get into danger zone. Most of publisher who starts with Adsense, they usually ask their friend to click on Ads or click on their Ads from different I.P. If Adsense team detect such activity, they put your account in disable mode to ensure and safeguard their Advertisers.
Also, many new publishers ask their readers to click on ads, which is also discouraged by Adsense as stated in their program policies.
Using Adsense on unsupported language blog :
At the time of writing, Google doesn’t support all the languages to qualify for Adsense program. If you have approved adsense account and you are using it to show it on the blog whose language don’t qualify Adsense TOS, then make changes asap. Specially, if you are using any method to make your blog multi-lingual and serving Ads on it, this will be consider as violation. That’s the reason, I removed Global translator plugin some time back.
Here is the list of adsense supported language.
Maximum Adsense unit on a single page :
Adsense work on simple rule of 1-2-3 to define the maximum number of ad unit on a single page. You can refer to previous post for more info : Maximum number of adsense unit on a single page. Though, this is not any violation of Adsense policies as this could be a mistake and adsense won’t show more than 3 content ad unit unless you are a premium Adsense publisher.
Sending ads on Email :
Many publisher started the trend of sending adsense adverts within email, and sometime it goes viral. Google find it against the program policies.
Advertisement label :
Many publisher started using trick like click here, Click to see hot babe, and this also helped to encourage click. Encourage click? Oh time to look at point 4. Or you use pop up script to show Adsense in pop-up and readers have to click on it to read the content, Ahh big no!
Competitive contextual advertisement :
Make sure you don’t use any other contextual advertisement program. Let Google ad sense by your only and favorite advertisement program. Though for monetization you can use many other ad network and here are some which I have used and they comply with Adsense TOS. Infolinks, BuySellads, Technorati media, Viglink.
Altering the Adsense code :
So you are a programmer? huh! doesn’t matter. Changing your Adsense code in any ways is not permitted by Google.
Shading with Image : Placing Google Adsense Image ad unit with adjacent image can be a great and smart move, but guess what? Do it and Google adsense might ban you. Google TOS doesn’t allow use of shading your adsense image ads with adjacent image.
- Read few more from official Google page
- Meanwhile do you know a Guy named Aaron Sued Google adsense for banning his account, read Aaron story here
Hosting Copyright content:
If you are running Adsense on site which distribute copyright content like Movies, songs or any other files, you are most likely to get instant ban. Adsense doesn’t allow putting Adsense on site which distribute copyright stuff.
Linking to site who distribute Illegal and copyright content:
This is something which I got to know about in 2012 and one of the reasons why most of sites are getting Adsense ban. If you are linking to sites like (Streaming movie), illegal or pirated software, Keygen sites, your adsense serving might be disabled for that particular site. Here are the other type of content, that is not allowed for Adsense sites:
- Porn, Adult material
- Violent content
- Racial content
- Hacking/Cracking
- Gambling/Casino
- Pages selling Drugs, Alcohol (Beer or hard alcohol)
- Pages selling Weapons and ammunition
- Distribution of course work. Eg: Student essays
Above are just an example, and there could be more. So, you should avoid putting any such content on your blog or atleast avoid serving Adsense on those pages.
Paid Traffic:
If you are buying traffic for your Adsense enabled sites, it’s not permitted according to adsense TOS. Also, consider reading Adsense landing page Quality guidelines, which will give you ample amount of idea, what Google expect from your pages.
But if you are a victim of adsense ban game, shoutmeloud previous post on adsense alternative program will be very useful for you.
Tip :Use Infolinks : advertisement program to increase your revenue from your text blog.
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Well that was a nice reminder for many of us.
I feel adsense having strict TOS and conditions still is one of the best advertisement companies on net. Just 3 reasons- they pay you on time, have a decent offer, and shows ads according to sites content.
Though if you look at the adsense help center , you might find a long list of unsatisfied adsense users.
What I like about adsense is , it never let me run out of advertisement
You are quite right. many people are unsatisfied with it. But look at the top advertising programs paying you equally or above adsense, they have a simple cutoff traffic at around 25000 a month or similar, which exactly is not possible for a new site or site focusing on smaller niches. thats when adsense works out good.
@ Hari
placing ads deliberately on the pages which adsense is not supported is the violation of Google adsense policy.
If you read https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=9727&topic=140
It is clearly stated that
Hi
just wanna ask u one thing . . refering to point #5 … what if I’m using feedburner and the updates which I sent to my subscribers have ads in it .. will this amount to cancellation of my account aswell ??
Muhammad are you talking about adsense for feeds?
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/improve-adsense-revenue-with-adsense-rss-feeds-advertisement.html
It should not be a reason to violation of your adsense account.
Hi, Feedburner has a feature to add ads unit into feed content. How about that?
what is feed burner…???
Thanks Harsh
Do u know nay plugins & installation guide for that plugins for placing Adsense ads…
I hav a blog but I dont know the initial and save steps to apply google adsense…
Please guide me…
Thanks,
Hi
just wanna ask u one thing . . I’m using feedburner and the updates which I sent to my subscribers have ads in it .. will this amount to cancellation of my account aswell ??
HELLO HARSH.
It seems My payment is not releasing from adsense. This may possible because from My ip i have submitted the three Adsense form. So what shoul i do for relasing payment?
One more thing can My account reached over the 100 dollar in feb 20 but my payment history pages show nothing about the payment sending information.
So what should i do?
Thanks
Nice tips . Do you think that we can really earn much from infolinks…
Sudeep depending upon your traffic, Infolinks is a nice way to earn.. At this moment I’m making more than $300/mo from Infolinks alone.
I think you should update this article with another tip. Now a days Google is refusing Adsense accounts for website’s saying that “Your website has inappropriate content.”. I am not sure what does this means.
Thanks for the tips harsh.. I live every day with the fear of getting banned from adsense.. I think these tips may decrease my every day fear..
great tips friend, i just recently get suspended from adsense on ads serving to my 99% best site on cracking and hacking warning.
I have been searching for plugin that i will use to automatically review my post and delete the ones that are conflicting with Google adsense TOS
Does video downloading sites are violating tos of adsense
If you distributing copyright content for free or without permission.. (Movie links sites), it is a violation…
Pls tell me can I get my adsense banned for embedding youtube videos on my forum. Please am scare!
Tell Me Sir Wallpapers are Also Copyrighted or Not ?
@Guri
Wallpapers are also copyright..but since they have been used so many times..Most of them source is unknown… Though the best way is to cite the source whenever possible and in your privacy policy you can mention “You don’t own the copyright of the wallpapers” and link to your contact form for reporting any such wallpaper which violates anyone copyright policy…
This is very nice information because I found that my application for Google Adsense was disapproved. Google told me that my site was reported have a violation in it.
I really didn’t understand what is the mistake until i read your article and found a lot of violation according to Google term and condition.
I really have to make a lot of changing on my site and back to apply for the Adsense. I hope this time they’ll approved my proposal.
Once again thank you very much. I learn much from you.
Greet from your friend in Indonesia. Sorry if my English not so good.
The issue with linking to sites that Adsense does not like is the biggest concern for me. If you allow a blog comment link to a site that is not behaving correctly is that just as bad as linking to it in any other way?
That is the reason why I decided to use “No Follow” on all comment links on my blog, although whether that makes any difference or not is questionable.
If Google could be a little more transparent about things like that I know that I for one would worry less about being banned by Adsense.