Google: No AdSense Ads Below Blog Title
Filed in: Adsense Tips, Make Money Online — August 28th, 2008
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.
QuickOnlineTips 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.
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!
More Information:
- "The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense" (Joel Comm) listing at Amazon.com
- "Google AdSense For Dummies" (Jerri L. Ledford) listing at Amazon.com
- "Make Easy Money with Google: Using the AdSense Advertising Program" (Eric Giguere) listing at Amazon.com
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August 28th, 2008 at 1:40 am
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.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Thanks for notice us..
August 28th, 2008 at 1:58 am
well, I knew it as soon as Google AdSense blog published about it. Just that I didn’t take the immediate action.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Thanks for alerting me,i will check if my blogsite crossing adsense rule!!
August 28th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Another knowledge learned today… (I didn’t know at all).. thanks bro!
August 28th, 2008 at 4:43 am
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/three-col-kubrick/images/advertisement.gif).
Thank you and please reply.
Nicholas
August 28th, 2008 at 5:44 am
@Free Software Downloads: yes, you can save the “advertisement.gif” image on your site and use it. Please do not hotlink to the image.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:59 am
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?
August 28th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Then I need to change mine as well…thanks to share with us.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Thanks dude..good info..
August 28th, 2008 at 10:44 am
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.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:03 am
thanks…didn’t realise this as well, has just done the amendment to that now..
August 28th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Wooo..that not gud..
August 28th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
i guess it is time to change the ad format on our blogs too.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
How about wrapping of text beside ads? Is this allow?
August 28th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
wow..OK, thank you. I will inform my deaf bloggers about this.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
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.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
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.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:25 am
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.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I plastered a whole block of text right next it, stating that it is an advertisement, is that okay?
August 30th, 2008 at 3:37 am
woooooo..so next time i have to be careful about the placement more..huuuuuu
August 30th, 2008 at 4:03 am
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
September 1st, 2008 at 1:19 am
how about adsense below each post ? is it good ?
September 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
thanks for the tips on having the advertisements word in between title and ads
what about setting a clear border?
September 4th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
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.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
BTW, it seems that you still have the adsense below the title. ;P
September 7th, 2008 at 12:37 am
@pening: have you read the solution in the blog post?
September 7th, 2008 at 1:02 am
LcF, now I understand. I had also implemented this technique.
Thanks body.
September 7th, 2008 at 1:16 am
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
September 7th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
@Nicholas: i didn’t get your previous message. the arrow tell, “this IS advertisements”. why is it against the TOS?
September 7th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
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.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:46 am
@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.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Ok, thanks for the fast response.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Thanks LcF for sharing the info.so where is another heat point instead of below post title?
Any suggestion!!
September 15th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I think putting adsense which practically ’surrounds’ the article is best.. for example, top, left, bottom
but it sorta ‘pollute’ the entire site though…
October 10th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
ermmm liew i saw you also just put it below title……dont just bother mention it here men…
October 20th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
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?
November 8th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
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November 9th, 2008 at 8:28 am
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