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Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:30 am**

Are we allowed to have Google Ads on our site?

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:35 am**

Yes, providing they aren't directly beneath the keenspace ads. Also remember than google ads have their own rules. Must have at least 50,000 pageviews a month IIRC.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:46 am**

I assume we're talking about google adSense?

o.0? I never saw anything like that...

Google lists the requirements here:
https://www.google.com/adsense/policies

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:59 am**

Looks like they dropped that requirement.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:14 pm**

Power to the littleman!

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:16 pm**

Though without a lot of pageviews, it's unlikely you'll be making much money off the ads anyway.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:28 pm**

Woah woah woah woah, WOAH! HOLD IT!! I was told, and it is found on the FAQ on the CGWiki, that we can NOT have Google ads!

http://cgwiki.comicgenesis.com/index.ph ... gle_Ads.3F

Someone has the wrong or outdated info. And I'd really like a clear "yes/no" on this.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:33 pm**

Ah, good catch. I'd universally seen "yes" as the answer, then there's this "no."

I, too, would like to know.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:47 pm**

Oh, that's new. Okay then, listen to the wiki, it was written by the admins. No google ads, then.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:34 pm**

Mercury Hat wrote:Oh, that's new. Okay then, listen to the wiki, it was written by the admins. No google ads, then.

Ah, ah! Wiki was written by everyone! We should get the admins to POST something on the FORUMS, where it's not EDITABLE.

hooray for EMPHASIS

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:16 pm**

You can see in the history of that particular entry that the only people who have edited it are Phalanx and STrRedWolf, both are admins for the forum. Phalanx added the part about google ads.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:27 pm**

Ah.

(wikiNoob)

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:38 pm**

Okay, thanks. No Google Ads.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:49 pm**

It violates the Google TOS to put the the ads on a site with another ad, period.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:54 pm**

Hm... I thought they only prohibited putting google ads on a page with other ads that "Mimic google ads" or are "contextually targeted."

Google AdSense Policies wrote: Competitive Ads and Services

We do not permit Google ads or search boxes accessing Google search services to be published on web pages that also contain what could be considered competing ads or services. If you have elected to receive contextually-targeted Google ads, this would include all other contextually-targeted ads or links on the same page as Google ads. This would also include ads throughout the site that mimic Google ads or otherwise appear to be associated with Google on your site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure these ads do not mimic Google ads. If you have elected to receive Google search services, this would include other search services on the same site and non-Google query-targeted ads. We do allow affiliate or limited-text links.

I suppose CG's ads *might* be "contextually-targeted," but that makes me wonder about the clown....

Though since CG doesn't allow them, it's really a moot point

.

Posted: **Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:25 pm**

See the problem therein is that you can' t have two google ads on your site, since one of our advertisers through burst.net seems to randdomly pop up google ads.

Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure these ads do not mimic Google ads.

There is nothing wrong with selling ads DIRECTLY on your site, ads you have control over that you know do not look like google ads.

IMO, google ads do not work with webcomics unless you transcribe the content of the comic into every page. Also, the robots.txt is set to very restrictive by default (you'd have to allow google to crawl your site) for google to work. It hits only the non-archive pages. FYI, it's set like ths so google doesn't cache your comic.

Posted: **Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:38 pm**

Kisai wrote:See the problem therein is that you can' t have two google ads on your site, since one of our advertisers through burst.net seems to randdomly pop up google ads.

Are you sure?

Google AdSense Program Policies wrote:Up to three ad units may be displayed on each Web site page.

I don't know, is that what is meant? Or did you mean something else?

Posted: **Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:11 pm**

-Fanny pack wrote:
Kisai wrote:See the problem therein is that you can' t have two google ads on your site, since one of our advertisers through burst.net seems to randdomly pop up google ads.
Are you sure?
Google AdSense Program Policies wrote:Up to three ad units may be displayed on each Web site page.
I don't know, is that what is meant? Or did you mean something else?

I think it means that a single person registered with google ads can have up to three ad units on a page. However, multiple persons registered with google ads cannot have ads on the same pages.

But that's just my take on it. Kisai, did you or another admin check with Google to make sure?