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Simon Phipps's personal commentary

Google exercises editorial control

Just found this in my spam trap:

Hello,

It has come to our attention that you are encouraging your website users
to click on the Google AdWords ads that you are serving via the AdSense
program. This has the potential to artificially inflate AdWords advertiser
costs. Therefore, per the Google AdSense Terms and Conditions, AdSense
participants are not permitted to incite or encourage users to click on
the AdWords ads.

If users click on ads with little chance of converting to a customer for
our advertisers, advertiser costs are increased while the return on the
investment is reduced. This is an activity Google does not support.

Please remove the following language on your website:

"No tips in the tip jar; no gifts from the wish list - so I'm giving
Google a try, please click often ;-) without click-spamming (new term I
learned on Google)."

If we find your account to be in violation in future, action may be taken
against your account and payment may be withheld. Please be sure to
review, and remain in compliance with, our Terms and Conditions and
program policies (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies).

Sincerely,

The Google Team

Seems their bot has no sense of humour and/or irony. I'm not sure I agree with them trying to exercise editorial control. comments invited.

posted at 12:04 AM (UK) | |