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Common AdSense Violations You Can Avoid

AdSense is one of the best ways to monetize your blog. Of course, you need to do more than just getting your blog ready before you apply for AdSense; you also need to make sure you play by the rules. Even honest mistakes put you at risk of being banned. Here are some of the most common AdSense violations that can get you banned.

1. Using AdSense with Banned Content

There are certain types of content that cannot be used with AdSense. The list of banned content for AdSense publishers includes:

• Copyright material
• Excessive profanity
• Content advocating against a person, organization, or group
• Adult content
• Counterfeit merchandise
• Weapon or violence-related content
• Content related to hacking or cracking
• Promoting prescription medications
• Illegal acts
• Gambling

If any page on your blog discusses or promotes any of these banned topics and you have AdSense ads anywhere on your blog, you’re violating the rules.

2. Clicking Your Own Ads

While this is certainly the most obvious rule you shouldn’t break, it’s surprising how many bloggers click on their own ads. Under no circumstances should you click your own ads, employ tricks like logging in with a different IP address to click ads, or getting friends to click ads for you. If you want to visit a destination page, use the AdSense Publisher Toolbar to “test click” ads without violating any rules.

3. Sharing Earnings

Avoid discussing your Google AdSense earnings in detail. While you can share gross earnings online, don’t share other stats like your eCPM or CTR.

4. Content in an Unsupported Language

The AdSense program supports several languages. If you have a non-English blog, make sure you do not have content in a language that isn’t supported when you run AdSense ads.

5. Copyrighted Material

There are many ways to violate your AdSense agreement with copyrighted material. Make sure there are no copyrighted videos, music, images, or content on your website. This rule is often violated by bloggers who use copyrighted images for their posts by using Google Images search and bloggers who post duplicate content.

6. Ads on Pages with Little Content

Make sure you know where your AdSense ads are being displayed. Do not let ads run on 404 error pages, “Thank you” pages, “unsubscribe” pages or any other pages with very little content. Google considers this deception as visitors may believe the ads is the content.

7. Inciting Ad Clicks

Finally, make sure you aren’t deceiving users or trying to incite ad clicks by asking people to click ads or attempting to draw the eye to the ads.