7 Priceless Google AdSense Rules You Ought To Abide By

Today we’ll be looking at some of the major Google AdSense rules which every Google AdSense publisher ought to adhere to lest they risk their Google AdSense Account being terminated (As compared to other advertising networks, Google AdSense serves ads from a wider variety of advertisers so being terminated from their AdSense revenue program can be a big blow to one’s online business).    

How I Came Up With The 7 Priceless Google AdSense Rules

Just in case you might be curious as to how I came up with the Google AdSense Rules we’ll be looking at, let me say that I derived them from Google AdSense program policies which you are free to visit so don’t be worried that I cooked them up.

The 7 Priceless Google AdSense Rules

1. Never Ever Click On Your Own Google AdSense Ads-This is arguably the most important of all the other Google AdSense rules which every AdSense publisher should ensure they abide by. Clicking on your own AdSense ads might result in Google terminating your account with them and this is because your click will be invalid to their advertisers i.e. your intention will be clicking to make money instead of finding more about that ad so it’s a loss for the advertiser.

2. Don’t Encourage Click-Although it might be tempting to ask family and friends to click on your Google AdSense ads whenever they visit your blog, one should refrain from encouraging them to do so and this is mainly because they will click on a given AdSense ad so many times and from the same IP address. This will raise a red flag in Google’s eyes and you might be cut off from their generous AdSense revenue program. Always remember that the Google AdSense Team is on the lookout for a pattern of clicks either from one IP address or from a given set of IP addresses.

3. Don’t Place Google AdSense Ads On Websites With Adult Material, Violent Or Discriminating Content-If you happen to be a webmaster of a website that has adult material, then you should NEVER place your Google AdSense Ad codes on it even if it receives lots of traffic since the Google AdSense team is against such practices. If you really want to monetize you adult website then you should look for an ad serving platform which accepts websites with adult material. You should also NEVER place your Google AdSense Ad codes on websites which encourage violence or those which encourage race discrimination as doing so will result in your Google AdSense account being terminated.

4. Don’t Place Google AdSense Ads On Websites With Copyrighted Content-You should refrain from placing your Google AdSense ads on sites whose content has been protected by copyright law UNLESS you have the necessary legal rights to do so. This means no copying of other peoples content.

5. Avoid Using Paid Traffic Sources-This happens to be one of the most contradictory Google AdSense rules mainly because there are some Google AdSense publishers whose landing pages are located on their blogs. Let me therefore make it clear that Google doesn’t encourage the buying of traffic (especially the bulk traffic packages) because 99% of the time, this traffic is of an inferior quality i.e. bots. However, if you feel that you have to use paid traffic then you need to know that there are three things which Google looks for in a landing page i.e.

1. Relevant and original content e.g. Is your site offering useful information to readers?
2. Transparency e.g. Have you listed your business’ contact information?
3. Ease of navigation e.g. Do people find it easy to move about?

6. Place The Right Number Of Google AdSense Ads Per Page-You are allowed to place up to 3 AdSense for content ad units on each page (i.e. a maximum of 3) as well as a maximum of three link units and two search boxes on each webpage.

NB: For standard content ads, Google counts a click when a user clicks on an ad but for link unit ads; Google counts a click when a user clicks on an ad on the page of ads i.e. after selecting a link in the link unit.

7. Don’t Share Your Google AdSense Account Login Info With Anyone-This might as well be the golden rule of all the other Google AdSense rules. Make sure to keep your Google AdSense account login details private or risk someone siphoning your AdSense income or worse have them terminate it.

Although there are several other Google AdSense rules, the above 7 Google AdSense rules are priceless and every AdSense publisher should ensure they abide by them or risk waving goodbye to their Google AdSense accounts.

In our next post we’ll look at a list of some Google AdSense top earners but for now feel free to let us know what you think of the above post on the “7 Priceless Google AdSense Rules”; we’d love to hear from you!