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Many of you may remember our December post on the placement of images near ads . In that spirit, we'd like to remind you of a general policy issue: encouraging clicks. As many of you know, our program policies prohibit any means of encouraging users to click on Google ads or bringing excessive attention to ad units. For example, sites may not contain phrases such as "click the ads," "support our sponsors," "visit these recommended links," or other similar language that could apply to the Google ads on your site. In addition, publishers are not permitted to label the Google ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements." In light of this policy, you may be wondering if you're allowed to recommend your referral products to your users. As explained in Dan's post from February, unlike with AdSense for content ads, you can endorse your referral products by calling attention to the button or text link. If you bel...

To complement the recent launch of our newest AdSense blog in Korean , we’re happy to announce the launch of our 11th AdSense Help Forum: AdSense 도움말 포럼 If you speak Korean, head over to the new forum to ask questions and share your AdSense knowledge with other publishers. A Google employee with the screen name of ‘AdSensePro’ will monitor the forum and offer assistance if necessary. If you’re still brushing up on your Korean, you can try one of our other forums in the meantime: Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) English French German Japanese Polish Portuguese Spanish Turkish Posted by Arlene Lee – AdSense Publisher Support

We know how important it is to maintain the quality of your site and the experience your users have there, and we often receive email from publishers asking about specific ad implementations. While we encourage you to tailor your ads to fit the look and feel of your sites, we'd like to remind you to only use the options provided within the AdSense Setup tab of your account. As you may know, our program policies strictly prohibit altering the layout, behavior, targeting, or delivery of Google ads or AdSense for search boxes for any reason. Some examples of these modifications include: - Implementing the AdSense ad code in a "floating box script" - Manipulating the ad targeting using hidden keywords or IFRAMEs - Altering the height or width of an ad unit - Pre-populating the AdSense for search box with specific queries - Creating direct links to AdSense for search results Once you've generated the ad code in your account's AdSense Setup tab, we ask that you incor...

We're happy to announce that we've just expanded our product offerings for two long-awaited languages: Greek and Romanian . Starting today, Greek and Romanian publishers can monetize their content by displaying targeted AdSense for content ads on their pages. As an added bonus, Romanian publishers can now implement AdSense for search as well. If you're ready to get started with these languages, just log in to your AdSense account and follow the wizard located under the AdSense Setup tab. You can also contact the Greek team at adsense-el@google.com and the Romanian team at adsense-ro@google.com with additional questions. Posted by Mariela Foumi (Greek) and Otilia Otlacan (Romanian) - AdSense Publisher Support

If you're an Indian publisher, you may have noticed some familiar-sounding names responding to your support questions regarding policies, payments, PINs, and other AdSense related issues. That's because we now have a team based in Hyderabad, and we're looking to improve the AdSense experience for Indian publishers. We know many of our readers are Indian, so be on the lookout for case studies and tips specifically for you! Posted by Shanti Nanisetti - AdSense India Publisher Support

We have had a lot of questions about Google's announcement of our plans to purchase DoubleClick. Our goal is, as always, to improve the relevancy and efficiency of online advertising. This acquisition is a big win for you, our publishers, as well as for advertisers and Internet users. For those of you who are not familiar with the company, here's some background. They have two flagship products: DART for Advertisers allows advertisers and ad agencies to traffic, serve and measure their online display campaigns; DART for Publishers provides ad inventory management. Others of you are long time users of DoubleClick -- for over ten years, they've been working with buyers and sellers of Internet ads to help them plan, serve and measure their Internet campaigns. Stay tuned to this blog as we will use it to provide you with more information about our plans with DoubleClick, including ways you as an AdSense publisher can benefit from DoubleClick's strong advertiser and agency ...

We understand that our publishers are always looking for ways to attract interested users to their sites. But using third-party tools or services to increase your site traffic may lead to invalid clicks or impressions and result in your account being disabled. For this reason, we'd like to provide you with some guidance about this. As many of you already know, our program policies strictly prohibit any means of artificially generating ad impressions or clicks, including third-party services such as paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, auto-surf, and click-exchange programs. These programs offer incentives for users to view web pages or click on ads, resulting in activity that is harmful to our advertisers. We occasionally receive questions from publishers interested in using traffic exchanges to bring traffic to their site. While these services may help advertise your site, we don't recommend using them, as they may also result in similar invalid activity. We realize that you may have...