Google AdSense Law : : Not Getting Banned

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This is not definitely going to save your account. I hope to make a long list of everything against the terms and conditions. Don't be greedy. This is still unfinished work. I decided to do this as sometimes the ToS and Program Policies are a bit unclear.

1. Never click on your own AdSense ads. Simple. Final. Never ever. Click fraud is not good. Not even away from home.
2. Never ask someone to click on your ads. An over zealous family member may not understand and may decide to click 20 times to make you loads of money. Don't be greedy.
3. No dodgy sites with popups or automatic software installs. You know the ones saying you must click YES to downloading NoSpywareHonest or dialers. Can't change browser setting or anything.
4. Your site may not be loaded by one of the above ways. Don't register your site in dodgy places.
5. Don't touch your AdSense code. Not unless you definitely know you aren't going to mess anything up. Really. Especially don't add any premium keyword features (for massive publishers like Amazon) as these mean instant blockage.
6. Don't label ads with "Click Me". Or anything else. The only labels you are allowed are "sponsored links" or "advertisements"
7. Don't obscure ads. All text must be visible (no messed up colours) and they mustn't be in hidden DIVs or frames or whatever.
8. Don't try and trick Google. They are clever and also they have your money.
9. No Google ads alongside pr0n, gambling or illegal stuff
10. Make sure your page is never loaded inside an unrequested popup
11. No Google AdSense ads in emails. Also no error pages or thank you pages
12. Don't force ads to open in a new window and don't provide anything besides a direct link to the clicked on page. Dunno how you would do that anyway. I suppose with window.onbeforeunload. Anyway, you may not intersperse any content between the click and the content and the page they click on must be the exact place they arrive at.
13. Don't ever autofil the search box.
14. AdSense may not be used in an application. (including toolbars) - only websites.
15. Website publishers may not display ads on sites containing MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results. Copyright reasons.
16. Don't give incentives to click or bring unnatural attention to the advertisements. This includes "If you are interested in visiting one of our sponsored links during you upload, please right click on the advertisement to avoid interruption of your upload"
17. Don't display other contextual ads on the same page as Google ads. So, your site could rotate between displaying yahoo and adsense ads on each page but adsense and yahoo on the same page is a big no no.
18. You can't specify Google ads as alternative ads. Obviously.
19. Only 1 link unit, 1 referral button per product, 2 search boxes and 3 ad units per page. Strictly.
20. Only place ads and search boxes and referral buttons on a content page. No domain parking or pages specifically for the purpose of displaying ads.
21. No robots or click exchanges.
22. No link schemes or traffic boosting things
23. Page language must be one of the supported languages. (Sorry no Swahili or Tongue)
24. Nothing imitating Google AdSense ads, referral buttons or logos.
25. No competing search services such as MSN search
26. Just behave. I had to make a zed.

Well. That's about it for now. I didn't mean it to go from A-Z but as I had 25 laws I though I might just add an extra one. I'm sure I missed loads. AdSense is however a great scheme and probably for every horror story of somebody getting banned, thousands don't. Sign Up now if you haven't already and start earning loads (or a little).

Get Site Traffic

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It's simple. The more people that come to your site, the more chances you have of them clicking an advert and therefore more money for you. Also, Google Adsense's CPM - Cost per thousand impressions ads generate money for you with every impression so the more the better. Traffic = good. But what are the best ways of getting traffic?

Search engines:
That's the way most people find websites. They search for them. Try SEO - Search Engine Optimization and keyword targeting. If you manage to make it to the top 5 or so results on Google for a certain search you are likely to get quite a bit of traffic on those pages (depending on the content). Of course, don't just sit there. Submit your site to Google, MSN Search (beta) and Yahoo!

Signature:
Put your address in your email signature. Put it on all of your forum posts. Basically, link to your site everywhere. This is a sure fire way of getting a temporary (small) rush of traffic and increases your page rank.

Feature:
Write or do something amazing and get noticed. Try and get your site featured on a popular site such as Slashdot. This brings in a surge of traffic and gets your site noticed. Be careful though - if you have a site that only generates small amounts of clicks and one day you get a barage of them, Google AdSense may ban you.

Get them back + Keep it real:
Make sure to update content regularly. Once a person has visited your site they often come back a bit later. If they notice that nothing has really changed they may not bother anymore. Offer RSS and email updates so that you keep your visitors. Also, the more you update, the more often the search engines will index your site.

Of course, if you have poor content, your traffic level will not make so much of a difference to your income. Use channels to track your AdSense income for different sections and page impressions. Get earning.

How to Turn Off PSAs in Google Adsense

When people first start putting Google Adsense code into their blogs, they are likely to get PSAs - Public Service Ads. These are adverts that earn you no money and only occur when Google can't find any real ads to show. Now, that space is much better spent doing something useful rather than stealing your visitors for free.
How do you turn them off?

Advanced: If you are using blogger and want to tinker, go to your template, find the adsense code and after google_ad_client = "pub-XXXX"; start a new line and copy:
google_alternate_color = "0000FF";
This will display a blue square. Ofcourse, your background may not be blue so copy the colour from google_color_bg = "000000"; and paste it where the colour is so that you now have, for example: google_alternate_color = "000000";.

Or Normal: Go to your Adsense account - Setup - fill in the design you want - go to Alternate ads or colours - choose fill space or url - paste new code. You can either show a solid colour or an alternative advert such as for an affiliate program such as Amazon. Make sure you are earning money from your site at all times. Money.

However, the best way is to have good content and keywords. That way Google Adsense will display the best relevant adverts for your website and give you the best revenue and return. I explained how sort of in my past posts.

Something to ponder: Currency Exchange

You may have been saving up to get $100 for a while if you are just starting out with Google AdSense. This may not be you biggest worry but here goes. However, if you don't live in the US, your dollars are converted to GBP or EUR or some other currency before you get the money by the exchange rate of the day of the cheque being made.
The foreign exchange (currency or forex) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is the largest market in the world, in terms of cash value traded, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. The prices change rapidly.
If you are clever, I'm sure you could set a payment hold in your Google AdSense account until you think you can get more money (of your currency) from the $100. Check out the graphs. The higher the line, the more money you will get.

Enter your currency symbol: Exchange Currencies