Images beside ads, now a policy violation

**Colleen** · Dec 18th, 2006, 6:17 pm

Many webmasters learned to put images beside their ads as a way to generate more clicks, well now it is a policy violation. :sundecided:

Read on, http://adsense.blogspot.com/?utm_sou...fe&medium=link

There's even pictures of it, so go see. I never did it, couldn't be bothered.

**Zap** · Dec 18th, 2006, 6:20 pm

I never bothered to do it either. What's the point? An extra 10 cents?

**grim** · Dec 18th, 2006, 6:20 pm

I thought it always was, in any case glad it is.
Nothing more than fraudulently getting clicks. Makes the person running adsense money while causing the adwords advertiser to go broke!

**Kaos** · Dec 18th, 2006, 6:36 pm

Ut oh! Thanks for the tip Kalina, I have it on some sites! Guess I know what I need to do tomorrow!

**Colleen** · Dec 18th, 2006, 7:17 pm

Originally Posted by grim

I thought it always was, in any case glad it is.
Nothing more than fraudulently getting clicks. Makes the person running adsense money while causing the adwords advertiser to go broke!

It was if it said "click here" and stuff like that, but they've realized there was confusion and just cleared it up, so I guess it was but no one knew, it wasn't clear.

**jaybong** · Dec 18th, 2006, 11:33 pm

Wow, thanks for the headsup, but now I'm screwed.

I made this site http://www.thewholesale-hub.com as my first site, but about 5 months later I lost the copy of the homepage so I haven't been able to change it.

**Zap** · Dec 19th, 2006, 3:13 am

Originally Posted by jaybong

Wow, thanks for the headsup, but now I'm screwed.

I made this site http://www.thewholesale-hub.com as my first site, but about 5 months later I lost the copy of the homepage so I haven't been able to change it.

Use FTP to download a copy (and all your other pages).

**boxxa** · Dec 19th, 2006, 11:45 am

Google updated its adsense policy with the placement of images around ads to make them seem part of the site to click.

Mostly doesn't apply to many people but incase you use it heavily, here you go.

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/12/...nt-policy.html