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.

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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  • http://selinap.com/ pening

    BTW, it seems that you still have the adsense below the title. ;P

  • http://selinap.com pening

    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

    @pening: have you read the solution in the blog post? :)

  • http://selinap.com/ pening

    LcF, now I understand. I had also implemented this technique.
    Thanks body.

    :P

  • http://selinap.com pening

    LcF, now I understand. I had also implemented this technique.
    Thanks body.

    :P

  • http://www.freesoftwareworkshop.com/ Free Software Downloads

    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

  • http://www.freesoftwareworkshop.com Free Software Downloads

    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?

  • LcF

    @Nicholas: i didn’t get your previous message. the arrow tell, “this IS advertisements”. why is it against the TOS?

  • http://www.freesoftwareworkshop.com/ Free Software Downloads

    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.

  • http://www.freesoftwareworkshop.com Free Software Downloads

    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.

  • 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.

  • http://www.freesoftwareworkshop.com/ Free Software Downloads

    Ok, thanks for the fast response.

  • http://www.freesoftwareworkshop.com Free Software Downloads

    Ok, thanks for the fast response.

  • http://tenerife-car-rental.blogspot.com/ Car Hire|Car Rental

    Thanks LcF for sharing the info.so where is another heat point instead of below post title?
    Any suggestion!!

  • http://tenerife-car-rental.blogspot.com Car Hire|Car Rental

    Thanks LcF for sharing the info.so where is another heat point instead of below post title?
    Any suggestion!!

  • http://adsforblog.com/ Ads for Blog

    I think putting adsense which practically ‘surrounds’ the article is best.. for example, top, left, bottom

    but it sorta ‘pollute’ the entire site though…

  • http://adsforblog.com Ads for Blog

    I think putting adsense which practically ‘surrounds’ the article is best.. for example, top, left, bottom

    but it sorta ‘pollute’ the entire site though…

  • http://dunia-hipokrit.blogspot.com/ hipokrit

    ermmm liew i saw you also just put it below title……dont just bother mention it here men…

  • http://dunia-hipokrit.blogspot.com hipokrit

    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?

  • 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?

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  • http://harmedia.com/ harmedia

    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

  • http://harmedia.com harmedia

    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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