Comments on: Google Adsense Policies: Now With More Hypocrisy!

By: Dale

Dale — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:00:42 +0000

Google collects ad dollars for this type of content, but can close your account and keep the adsense dollars to boot. That is way too profitable for Google to do it that way, to the extent that its 100% profit. Why would they bother changing it?

By: Zania

Zania — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:24:39 +0000

This is nothing new.
I work in adult and mainstream.
I buy adwords to promote my adult sites.
Many of my mainstream sites have adsense on them.
The two are not related.

If targetted correctly (and before google gets greedy), my adwords ads for my adult sites show up well in the search results.

If targetted correctly, my mainstream sites get good adsense adverts on the mainstream topic I am targetting.

Two different beasts and handled in different ways.

Sure, there’s hypocrisy here. Nothing surprising about that when it comes to making money.

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:01:09 +0000

Is it an improvement in service or showing the impact of king?
Google wants what he wants to do,may be he thinks that selling illegal drugs,piracy,cracking are bad boy hats but what about “Sales of beer or hard alcohol?”
Moreover if “Sales of tobacco or tobacco-related products” are illegal then why government is not banning them?
Their are so many other questions in my mind but thanks for this share and let us know with this latest updates.

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By: Robert Skelton

Robert Skelton — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:03:26 +0000

As to the why? of the new wording, my guess is not that they want to clamp down on everyday nice sites that happen to accidentally or deliberately link to such content – but rather they don’t like sites that are totally about such content, but rather than having it on their site, they link to it.

For example, today’s 50 hottest lesbian porn videos – a site with just 50 links on the home page, and no content. With the old guidelines this sort of site would have been acceptable.

Taking it all on step further, Google is breaking its own rules, for each of their search results are links, and they link to everything that exists online (except Nazi stuff).

By: Brennan

Brennan — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:00:11 +0000

Google has been over-reaching lately in my opinion and I think this is the first step of Google going down some. It seems they think no matter what people will keep Adsense on their websites. I have seen many publishers choose other advertising services lately because they were sick of the 2-10 cents per click that Adsense has been giving them lately. I think Google needs to walk a fine line but they are stepping over it as of late and I don’t think that is good for internet marketer’s or Google in the long run.

By: george

george — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:57:32 +0000

Probably just a legally motivated policy which allows them to claim no legal liability if one of the sites gets sued and someone tries to reach into Google’s huge pockets by claim Google “promoted” the illegality.

Now they can say “our policy doesn’t allow this therefore we didn’t promote it and we just can’t police everything” (which is true.)

By: ms danielle

ms danielle — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:58:42 +0000

so then the key is to scratch adsense, link to all the aff programs in the prohibited verticals above since they’re obviously the money-makers, and display other forms of advertising. got it

By: Skitzzo

Skitzzo — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:59:24 +0000

Nick, I was being a bit sarcastic with my comment.

It’s not that they didn’t get the memo, it’s that Google makes WAY too much money from the AdWords ads on these topics for them to bother following the rules they set for the rest of us.

Bill, that’s a good question. If publishers can’t talk about or link to those topics, how can Google display those ads on their content network? Any site those ads would appear on should be banned from AdSense right?

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:36:00 +0000

Typical communication break downs when companies get too big. I guess they didn’t get the memo.