Comments on: Your Adsense Beautifier might violate Adsense TOS

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Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:29:29 +0000

[...] Google Adsense stirred probloggers last month when they made a statement about images aligned beside Adsense ads. I thought the Adsense Beautifier plugin was probably the culprit. [...]

By: Changes I made to my AdSense Beautifier plugin | The Four-eyed Journal - On technology, the web, health and life

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:08:41 +0000

[...] The Google AdSense team shook things up yesterday when they finally made public new policies regarding the use of images with their ads that were supposedly to fix ‘ad blindness’ and to improve ad optimization. Probloggers Darren Rowse and Abe Olandres quickly blogged about it saying that “you cannot place images near ads in any way that suggests a relationship between the image or the ad - even if you put a line between the image and the ad” and that there’s a “possibility that the plugin Adsense Beautifier could violate Adsense Terms of Service (TOS)” respectively. [...]

By: yuga

yuga — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:07:53 +0000

I think the default images from Adsense Beautifier are ok.

By: Obet

Obet — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:43:49 +0000

What about Adbutler Beautifier? Are they as picky as Google? I never made much from them but maybe it’s worth another try.

By: ade

ade — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:33:37 +0000

@ Obet:

Now THAT’s gonna be kicked out of adsense sooner or later!

The Beautifier really increased my Adsense earnings (although I’m a long way from t=my first check), and I’d hate it if Google just bans them altogether.

By: Obet

Obet — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:21:32 +0000

Eric, I believe yours might be against the TOS. Try removing them for 24 hours to see if there’s a difference in CTR. If it’s not that bad, leave the images off. Too bad Google did not give us any examples of image usage that would be within the TOS. I wonder if this is cool with Google? http://asiansweetheart.net/thai_beauty.html

By: eric

eric — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:08:05 +0000

hala… Abe can you please check if the images in my Adsense beautifier violates the TOS?

pinalitan ko kasi ang deafult images nito eh.

Thanks

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:26:02 +0000

I think it’s fair enough both for publisher and advertiser.

By: jhay

jhay — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:43:14 +0000

It’s back to Photoshop again with those customized images for the Adsense beautifier plugin…

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:49:44 +0000

This should be a good discussion topic. Darren Rowse did a pretty through post on this last night and I thought of this blog right away, because it’s one of the only ones I read regularly that has the little images routinely next to the AdSense ads.

I believe Abe has mentioned that they did increase his click throughs in the past, for myself, I don’t think I would use them at all … but then I certainly am ultra-conservative (or is that “chicken”? *smile*

I’ll have to make time tomorrow to see what Shoemoney is doing, he even had a neat on-line picture selector for keywords which I believe Google asked him to take down.

How much improvement does AdSense beautifier really make?

By: Kiven

Kiven — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:47:04 +0000

so the stock images that come with adsense beautifier is ok?