Question:
Does “Support Our Website” count as an incentive to click the ad on Google Adsense?
Answer:
It is absolutely verboten. Do it and you will lose your Adsense account FOR LIFE! Google does NOT accept apologies.
In order to ensure a good experience for users and advertisers, publishers participating in the AdSense program may not:
- Compensate users for viewing ads or performing searches, or promise compensation to a third party for such behavior.
- Encourage users to click the Google ads using phrases such as “click the ads”, “support us”, “visit these links” or other similar language.
- Direct user attention to the ads using arrows or other graphical gimmicks.
- Place misleading images alongside individual ads.
- Place ads in a floating box script.
- Format ads so that they become indistinguishable from other content on that page.
- Format site content so that it is difficult to distinguish it from ads.
- Place misleading labels above Google ad units. For instance, ads may be labelled “Sponsored Links” or “Advertisements”, but not “Favourite Sites” or “Today’s Top Offers”. http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182
The key to getting people to click your ads WITHOUT nudging them to do so is to write focused content for information hungry visitors and to do your on-page SEO to ensure that the content pulls in the “good” ads. For example, if you’re writing about teeth whitening, an optimize page will naturally pull in high paying teeth whitening/dental ads. Don’t keyword stuff your article. If you need to talk about more stuff, make a new page for it and link the first page to the additional content using anchor text.
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