AdSense approval - Q Re: affiliate links

[vik68]

Just got approved for adsense. Am I allowed to have different affiliate links displayed on the same page that adsense is on?

Sorry if the Q sounds silly... but I keep reading about people getting banned and would like to avoid doing so my first day!

peace,
Vik

 

[netmeg]

Yes you can have affiliate links. You cannot have any contextual advertising (advertising that rotates to be in context with your content) on the same page (you can have it on the same site, but not on the same page) and you cannot have any advertising that looks like or might mislead people into thinking it's a Google ad.

If you are worried about being banned, I strongly advise you to read over the TOS with a fine tooth comb, and make sure you understand it.

 

[vik68]

Yes you can have affiliate links. You cannot have any contextual advertising (advertising that rotates to be in context with your content) on the same page (you can have it on the same site, but not on the same page) and you cannot have any advertising that looks like or might mislead people into thinking it's a Google ad.

If you are worried about being banned, I strongly advise you to read over the TOS with a fine tooth comb, and make sure you understand it.

Thanks Netmeg -- I thought that I could. I did read the TOS but was a bit confused by the wording of such and just wanted to check with somebody in the know. My understanding now is this: Affiliate links OK on same page, similar programs to Adsense, like YPN on same page, a NO-NO.

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peace,
Vik

 

[netmeg]

Right.

However, I'll confuse you even further and tell that if you are in other networks, you can run those ads as long as you don't run the Google ads at the same time.

For example, I use PHP to include different types of ads randomly, and then I can test which ad network works best on each page.

 

[GILSAN]

Right.

However, I'll confuse you even further and tell that if you are in other networks, you can run those ads as long as you don't run the Google ads at the same time.

For example, I use PHP to include different types of ads randomly, and then I can test which ad network works best on each page.

Netmeg, besides adsense and Yahoo (only for the US) what other ad networks do you like? Do you think Adbrite and Clicksor are good?

GIL

 

[vik68]

Right.

However, I'll confuse you even further and tell that if you are in other networks, you can run those ads as long as you don't run the Google ads at the same time.

For example, I use PHP to include different types of ads randomly, and then I can test which ad network works best on each page.

Gotcha! As I've heard it's hard to get into YPN, and I haven't researched other networks in depth as of yet, I'll just stick with the adsense and my affiliate links for now and perhaps get into rotating different networks in the near future.

thanks again
peace,
Vik

 

[netmeg]

Actually, of the ones I've tried, AdSense consistently outperforms the rest on all my sites (and I have about 70 developed domains at the moment). But I know other people have good luck with some of the others. I can't even use YPN on my main money-making site; their brain-dead approval process keeps declining it because of the main theme "fireworks" - what they can't figure out is that I'm not selling or showing how to make home-made fireworks, I'm just providing information on community fireworks displays in my state. But that site does fantastically well with Google in season (70k uniques per day), so I don't miss 'em.

 

[vik68]

Actually, of the ones I've tried, AdSense consistently outperforms the rest on all my sites (and I have about 70 developed domains at the moment). But I know other people have good luck with some of the others. I can't even use YPN on my main money-making site; their brain-dead approval process keeps declining it because of the main theme "fireworks" - what they can't figure out is that I'm not selling or showing how to make home-made fireworks, I'm just providing information on community fireworks displays in my state. But that site does fantastically well with Google in season (70k uniques per day), so I don't miss 'em.

Good to hear that adsense performs well for you. I'm just completing my first developed site for monetization and hope to be like you, with many more to come. I'll tell you one thing though, I will NOT be building sites from the ground up again. I really need to bite the bullet and learn to use a CMS.

Peace Netmeg

Vik

 

[netmeg]

Make sure you do a bit of research on the CMS first though - some of 'em have SEO issues that make them difficult to rank well in search engines (duplicate content, weird structure for spidering, etc)

 

[vik68]

Make sure you do a bit of research on the CMS first though - some of 'em have SEO issues that make them difficult to rank well in search engines (duplicate content, weird structure for spidering, etc)

I already have. There is a CMS called ModX that looks promising. I posted a thread here not too long ago asking for a recommendation for a CMS that was built with SEO in mind and someone suggested the above mentioned. I just need to make a decision and then learn how to use it. I really want to avoid starting with one and then having to switch to a different one.

Peace,
Vik