Thread: 10 Great Things Not To Do With Google Adsense

10 Great Things Not To Do With Google Adsense
By Diane Nassy

There is no question that you can make some good money with
Google AdSense, but you’re setting yourself up for disaster if
you make any of these Top 10 mistakes!

1. Do not use fake information when opening your Google AdSense
account.

Google says that’s a no-no and they will cut your account off
and keep all the money you may have earned. Besides, trying to
hide your true identity can cause serious problems with the
I.R.S. or whoever your tax authority is.

2. Do not hack or modify Google AdSense code other than to
change the parameters that Google authorizes you to change.

Any attempt to bypass Google’s built-in algorithms not only
poses a danger to the integrity of the network, but it
threatens the financial modle that Google operates under.
You’re not dealing with some Mom-and-Pop company here, and
Google has the legal muscle and deep enough pockets to drag you
through every court in the land if you damage their business
with your hacking antics.

3. Keep AdSense ads off of your registration, confirmation, and
all "thank you" pages.

Don’t ask me why you can’t put your ads there. It makes sense
to me that those would be wonderful locations. Google thinks
otherwise, however, and doing so is a hanging offense according
to their Terms of Service.

4. Do not display AdSense ads and a competitor's ads (like
Overture's) on the same page at the same time.

That just makes plain good sense. Google doesn’t demand 100%
SITE loyalty from you, but they do insist that their own ads
not be cluttered up by offerings from their competitors.

5. Don't "beg for clicks" or provide any incentive for clicking
on your Google AdSense ads.

This is a biggie and you see this rule violated all the time.
Any of the “get paid to do stuff� sites that put Google ads in
the member’s control panels are walking the plank and they
don’t even realize it. Even those sites with the polite little
messages asking you to “help keep my site running by clicking
on our sponsor’s ads� are asking to be cut off if those happen
to be Google ads.

6. Never click on the ads running on your own site, even if you
are genuinely interested in the product or service and are
thinking of buying it!

Nothing screams FRAUD louder than a webmaster running up his or
her own click counts by happily clicking on ads fromtheir own
site. The Google Gods can track this activity and it won’t be
long until you find yourself getting a goodbye note from their
fraud team.

7. No misleading labeling

Google is very specific about what text can be placed around
their ads. Their Terms of Service state: “Publishers may not
label the ads with text other than ‘sponsored links’ or
‘advertisements.’ This includes any text directly above our ads
that could be confused with, or attempt to be associated with
Google ads.�

This is to keep visitors from becoming confused and barking up
Google’s tree when they clicked on an ad that led to a porn
site instead of the recipe site they were expecting to visit.

8. Avoid keyword spamming and other divisive tricks

You may be tempted to buy one of those “generates thousands of
key-word rich pages in seconds� programs that are so popular
these days but I’ll tell you this: Their days are numbered.
Google is wise to such shenanigans and they will be hot on your
trail. Other prohibited gimmicks include:

• �Sneaky� page redirects that send a visitor off to a
different site then they were expecting to visit.

• Multiple sites, domains, pages, etc. which have substantially
duplicate content.

• Hidden text or links of any type.

• Excessive outbound links on any page. Google recommends no
more than 100. I’d keep it way below that.

• And here is a nugget of wisdom straight from Google’s mouth:
“Do not participate in link schemes designed to increase your
site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web
spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web as your website may
be affected adversely by those links.

9. Don’t advertise anything on Google’s prohibited items list.

It’s a lot shorter lists than PayPal’s or eBay’s, but it
includes a lot of the same stuff like hacking/cracking content,
porn, illegal drugs, gambling sites, beer or hard alcohol (I
guess wine is OK), weapons, and the other usual stuff.

10. And the 10th dumbest thing NOT to do with Google AdSense is
to let the other nine things stop you from running an honest
site that’s designed to make the most out of this very
profitable opportunity that Google offers!

source: Click

All of these are must to follow things unless you don't bother about getting adsense account cancelled.

Just in case anyone didn't know, if you beg for clicks and any visitor clicks "Advertise on Google" or similar link on the ad, they can report to google about your acts and google can disable your account. So, reporting has become much easier and rightly so, because incidences have come to picture where people have posted like "Click ads to keep server running" or similar, which is against their TOS>

Also don't have adsense more than three times on any page and as advised they shouldn't be on thank you pages or registration for the obvious reason discussed above.