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Google: No AdSense Ads Below Blog Title

Filed in: Adsense Tips, Make Money Online — August 28th, 2008

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By referring to Google AdSense placement heat map, we put Google AdSense ads above blog content (below post title) for better performance. But Google AdSense team does not quite agree with the ads placement.

no adsense ads below blog titleQuickOnlineTips received an email from Google AdSense support pointing out the issue on their site.

In fact, Google Adsense Blog published 2 guidelines earlier and one of them is “ads shouldn’t be placed under a title or section heading in a way that implies that the ads are not ads.”

I didn’t take much attention to the guideline because I thought mine is different than the example. My AdSense ads was separated by categories and date. But it seems AdSense team think the different.
AdSense team advised QuickOnlineTips that:

“publishers may not label the Google ads with text other than ’sponsored links’ or ‘advertisements’.”

As a result, QuickOnlineTips now put a “ADVERTISEMENT” word above the AdSense ads.

put google adsense ads below title

I also made the change to add “advertisement” image above my AdSense ads, although I haven’t received any email from Google AdSense about matter.

I know many AdSense publishers used put AdSense ads below post title (it’s really a heat spot!), so make the required changes before too late!

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  • Liew,

    I'm surprised to hear that you just got to know about this little issue with AdSense placement. I thought you already knew about this.

    That's ok, knowing later is better than not knowing at all.
  • Thanks for notice us..
  • LcF
    well, I knew it as soon as Google AdSense blog published about it. Just that I didn't take the immediate action.
  • Thanks for alerting me,i will check if my blogsite crossing adsense rule!!
  • Another knowledge learned today... (I didn't know at all).. thanks bro!
  • Hello,

    I was wondering if I can take the advertisement.gif photo from you post and use it on my blog. :) May I use it? (this is the photo: http://www.liewcf.com/blog/wp-content/themes/th...).

    Thank you and please reply.

    Nicholas
  • LcF
    @Free Software Downloads: yes, you can save the "advertisement.gif" image on your site and use it. Please do not hotlink to the image.
  • Thanks for sharing this! Lucky for me, I don't have the tech know-how how to fiddle with the titles etc LOL

    I place my ads below my blog title...will that be OK?
  • Then I need to change mine as well...thanks to share with us.
  • Thanks dude..good info..
  • 5xmom mentioned this a long time ago. Thank goodness your site wasn't affected by Google by putting ads under your header for a while.
  • thanks...didn't realise this as well, has just done the amendment to that now..
  • Wooo..that not gud..
  • i guess it is time to change the ad format on our blogs too.
  • How about wrapping of text beside ads? Is this allow?
  • wow..OK, thank you. I will inform my deaf bloggers about this. ;)
  • Pardon me, but aren't the Adsense Ads for this post considered "below" the post's title?

    Just wondering as I don't have Adsense.
  • Understood, but wouldn't it just make more sense for Google to change the "ad's by google" image placement and put it at the top of the banners or make that an option in the actual adsense setup so that way all you would have to do is select "top" or something like that so that if you have ads placement under a title the ad's by google image shows at the top. Seems they could've made this a bit easier if it was something they were going to enforce.
  • I knew of the issue as early as late 2007 but I was not quick enough to amend about 2500 webpages of my biggest website. My website was no longer allowed to serve adsense ads and I lost almost 70% of my earning from adsense ads. Luckily my account was not closed.
  • I plastered a whole block of text right next it, stating that it is an advertisement, is that okay?
  • woooooo..so next time i have to be careful about the placement more..huuuuuu
  • good to know now. will faster change them accordiingly, problem is i got too many website with it until i dunno which one got or dont hv...sigh

    anyway thkz for letting us know
  • how about adsense below each post ? is it good ?
  • thanks for the tips on having the advertisements word in between title and ads

    what about setting a clear border?
  • Has anyone had success moving their ads yet? % Increase? I've been looking for the right combination. I think my site might need some design touches to boot.
  • BTW, it seems that you still have the adsense below the title. ;P
  • LcF
    @pening: have you read the solution in the blog post? :)
  • LcF, now I understand. I had also implemented this technique.
    Thanks body.

    :P
  • LcF, I asked you about a week ago if putting arrows pointing to the adsense ads isn't against the TOS; i.e. you arrow in advertisement.gif.

    So... ?

    Nicholas
  • LcF
    @Nicholas: i didn't get your previous message. the arrow tell, "this IS advertisements". why is it against the TOS?
  • Well, this is from adsense policy:
    "May not direct user attention to the ads via arrows or other graphical gimmicks"

    Anyway, did Google agreed that this is ok? Did you receive an email from them that says "thank you for solving the problem via the advertisement.gif image"?

    I may be exaggerating, sorry... I don't even have 2 months at adsense and I want to be sure. Thanks for your help.
  • LcF
    @Nicholas: I don't receive email from Google AdSense saying that putting ads below blog title against their TOS or the solution has been OFFICIALLY approved. If you are worry, then do NOT put adsense ads below blog title. I will update again if Google contact me.
  • Ok, thanks for the fast response.
  • Thanks LcF for sharing the info.so where is another heat point instead of below post title?
    Any suggestion!!
  • I think putting adsense which practically 'surrounds' the article is best.. for example, top, left, bottom

    but it sorta 'pollute' the entire site though...
  • ermmm liew i saw you also just put it below title......dont just bother mention it here men...
  • M
    Not true at all. If you care to read the TOS properly, they have shown "why" you can't put the ads underneath the title..

    It all depends on your Topic.

    E.g: IF your topic says

    "Click this"

    [ads]

    Post

    then you can be in trouble.

    but for normal titles, its okay!

    and after all this, how come u have ads like that?
  • Once you fix the issues, how do you contact Google to ask them to take and look and re-index your site?

    If you know the URL, please post it here.

    Thanks in advance

    Gary
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