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Ad implementation guidelines

Ad placement policies

Publishers may want to experiment with a variety of ad placements. Explore AdSense ad placement policies below.

Avoiding accidental clicks
Encouraging accidental clicks
Unnatural attention to ads
Placing ads under a misleading heading
Aligning images with ads
Formatting content to mimic ads
Offering compensation
Distance between ads and Flash games

Ensuring proper ad placement
Auto-refreshing ads
Ads on dynamic content
Ads on emails
Ads in a software application
Ads in a new window
Ads in pop-up and pop-under windows
Ads on a site with pop-ups or pop-unders
Ads on content that we can't evaluate
Ads on the same page or site as another publisher
Ads on a hosted website (e.g. Blogger)

Avoiding accidental clicks

Encouraging accidental clicks

Publishers are not permitted to encourage users to click Google ads in any way. This includes implementing the ads in a way that they might be mistaken for other site content, such as a menu, navigation or download links.

Be careful when placing links, play buttons, download buttons, navigation buttons (e.g. 'Previous' or 'Next'), game windows, video players, drop-down menus or applications near ads because they might lead to accidental clicks. Even if the layout unintentionally leads to accidental clicks, publishers may still receive a violation notification.

Encouraging accidental clicks | AdSense Program Policies

 

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Unnatural attention to ads

Publishers are not permitted to bring unnecessary or unnatural attention to their Google ads. Examples of this include:

  • Flashy animations that draw a user’s eyes to the ads
  • Arrows or other symbols pointing to the ads

Unnatural attention to ads | AdSense Program Policies

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Placing ads under a misleading header

It's important that visitors to your site are not misled in any way and are able to easily distinguish content from Google Display ads. This policy prohibits placing of ads under misleading headings such as "resources" or "helpful links". Publishers can only label Google ads with either "Advertisements" or "Sponsored links".

Additionally, as shown below, a website's heading might be interpreted as an inappropriate ad label. Because ads in such a position might be mistaken for links or listings instead of advertisements, such an implementation is considered unacceptable. Monitor your website and its layout carefully to ensure that this doesn't happen.

Publishers are not allowed to use language to lead users to click on ads, such as:

  • "Feel free to click on an ad."
  • 'Contribute to the cause by clicking an ad'.
  • 'Help keep this website running. Check out our sponsors!'
  • 'We need a new server. Support us!'

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Aligning images with ads

Publishers may not attempt to associate specific images with the individual ads appearing on their websites. Such implementation could confuse users, who might assume that the image is directly related to the advertiser's offerings, and is therefore a violation of our policies.

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Formatting content to mimic ads

Publishers can't implement Google ads in a manner that disguises the ads in any way. This includes formatting neighbouring content to look similar to the ads. If a publisher places ads on non-Google search results pages, then there must be a clear distinction between search results and ads. Review our AdSense for search policies for more information.

In the example below, the content is formatted very similarly to the ads and it's difficult to tell them apart. This implementation is not permitted.

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Offering compensation

Offering compensation or any incentive for clicks on ads is strictly prohibited.

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Distance between ads and Flash games

When placing Google ads on Flash gaming sites, we strongly recommend a distance of at least 150 pixels between the ads and the edge of a game. When users are concentrating on a Flash game and clicking frantically, invalid clicks are likely to occur. Since each game and website is unique, some games might require a greater distance based on the type of game and how it is played. For more guidelines, review AdSense for content ads on game play pages.

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Ensuring proper ad placement

Auto-refreshing ads

Publishers aren't permitted to refresh a page or an element of a page without the user requesting a refresh.This includes placing ads on pages or in placements that auto-redirect or auto-refresh. Additionally, publishers may not display the ads for a preset time (i.e. pre-roll), before users can view content such as videos, games or downloads.

Auto refreshing ads | AdSense Program Policies

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Ads on dynamic content

Publishers may not place Google ads on pages where dynamic content (e.g. live chats, instant messaging, auto-refreshing comments, etc.) is the primary focus of the page.

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Ads on emails

To ensure the effectiveness of Google ads for both our publishers and our advertisers, publishers cannot place Google ads inside email messages. In addition, publishers can't place Google ads alongside email messages when they're the primary focus of the page.

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Ads in a software application

Publishers are not permitted to distribute Google ads or AdSense for search boxes through software applications including, but not limited to toolbars, browser extensions and desktop applications. AdSense code may only be implemented on web-based pages and approved WebView technologies.

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Ads in a new window

Publishers aren't permitted to open Google ads in a new window or alter the result of clicking on an ad. For more information, review Opening the ads in a new window. Please note that this policy doesn't apply for AdSense ads served via dynamic allocation through Google Ad Manager.

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Ads in pop-up and pop-under windows

Publishers are not permitted to place Google ads in any window that is not initiated by an intentional user interaction (e.g. click). Additionally, Google ads may not be placed in any web browser window that lacks navigational controls, including back and forward browse buttons, and an editable URL field.

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Ads on a site with pop-ups or pop-unders

Publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on websites which have more than three pop-ups. If pop-ups are displayed on a website, then they may not interfere with website navigation, change user preferences, initiate downloads or distribute viruses.

Publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on sites that contain or trigger pop-unders.

Additionally, websites using AdSense may not be loaded by any software that triggers pop-ups, modifies browser settings, redirects users to unwanted websites or otherwise interferes with normal website navigation. It's your responsibility to ensure that no ad network or affiliates use such methods to direct traffic to pages that contain your AdSense code.

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Ads on content that we can't evaluate

In order to protect the quality of our ad network, we may disable ad serving on content that cannot be evaluated. This includes but is not limited to content whose robots.txt file blocks Google’s crawling and password-protected content where the publisher has not provided login credentials to Google.

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Ads on the same page or site as another publisher

If a site is in compliance with our Programme policies and the company or owner of the site has given you permission to display ads on their site, you may place your ad code on the same page as the other publisher's ad code. You will, however, need to contact your web hosting company or the owner of the website to obtain permission to display ads on their website. Additionally, you'll only be credited for clicks and impressions on the ad units associated with your account.

Bear in mind that every publisher is responsible for the content of a site on which their ad code is placed. If a website is found to be in violation of our policies, we'll notify any publisher(s) whose ad code is on the site.

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Ads on a hosted website (e.g. Blogger)

You're welcome to place the AdSense code on any page which complies with our Programme policies, including hosted sites. However, note that in order to use AdSense, you might need to have access to your website's HTML source code. It's also your responsibility to check with your host and determine whether using AdSense is a violation of their terms of service.

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