Asking Folks To Visit Your Sponsors

According to the Adsense agreement, is it ok to ask people to visit your sponsors?

No,, read your agreememt.

Rofl

You must admit the above was funny... but, to help you, this is a Google quote:

"Labeling Ads

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."

So, you can only use the two statements above.

So you mean you can't say "please click all these links for me?"

Sorry couldn't resist.

But Henny you can do that with affiliate programs, they don't have that restriction.

oK, Im going to take a stab at this from my marketing perspective.

There is a thin line....
It is not ok to say "click my sponsors" or "Help us out by clicking these ads".

But I must say It could easly be argued that you could say: "check out these useful sites" or "Don't miss these Valuable Resources"

This way you're not asking them to click the ads... you're enticing them!

-Scott Fish

I think:


Is pretty plain on the ONLY words you are allowed to use. Of course you likely can get away with more until caught. Want to gamble and lose your AdSense revenue? I don't.

And I've seen several where the text has been put into an image file so as to not get caught. Sure would hate to wake up one morning and find the site not displaying any ads....

Dosent anybody read these agreement they are ticking yes to or even worse digitally signing?.

If you dont read them and print the out before agreeing to them you are a fool.
I see so many questions abaut things that are in agreements that i have just read, printed off, scritinized,, highlighted any points of interest with a marker and then agreed to or disgreed to.

I then file it in its respective folder/
Some of you guys (and gals) are not treating ths web thing seriously enough.
Just becuse its easy to sign up a website,, stick a bit of content on it,, sign up for adsense and them spam the hell out of the search engines dosent mean that is is any different from a real business with contracts and leases.
Get a grip guys (and gals) and have a reality check.
If you are running adsense on your sites they you built you are in effect running a business and should treat it that way.

It is VERY important to read the Agreements, boring though they usually are. Affiliate Agreements occasionally have something obnoxious that translates into "if the customer does not buy within 5 days of initial visit, you are sc***ed."

Cheers,

Terri A.

You put product where it will sell... anywhere else is a waste of time and energy.

Of course you always can make your site so bad and incomprehensible that people are happy to click on your ads just to get something useful and relevant. You'd still have to optimise your (otherwise incomprehensible) page for the right keywords though ;)

I guess that's why my pages don't have a great adsense CTR - LOL {just kidding}