Is it a violation of adsense terms to have blogs in your blogroll that advertise incentive programs?
I know that it is against their TOS if your blog advertises incentive sites. I know that I didn't get accepted for adsense until AFTER I removed a referral link for Treasure Trooper. I want to be certain b/c a lot of people promoting incentive sites are asking to exchange links with me. Thanks in advance.
I would leave those links out.
Whether or not it's technically against the TOS, what those links DO is to put you in a "bad neighborhood" as far the search engines are concerned.
Your site will either be removed from the search engines entirely, or else your rank will be so low that nobody will ever find you.
And if they ARE against the Adsense TOS, you run the risk of being banned from the program for life.
The Link Exchange people are a bunch of scammers. They try to provide workarounds so that you can get to the top of a search engine quickly - and guess what? Search companies like Google have known about these schemes for years, and punish people who try to use them.
It's better to build a quality site, with quality content, and have legitimate people link to you. You will climb in the rankings naturally, visitors will respect you, and your site traffic will grow much more quickly!
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April 1, 2009
Caelorum @ 4:17 pm:
I would leave those links out.
Whether or not it's technically against the TOS, what those links DO is to put you in a "bad neighborhood" as far the search engines are concerned.
Your site will either be removed from the search engines entirely, or else your rank will be so low that nobody will ever find you.
And if they ARE against the Adsense TOS, you run the risk of being banned from the program for life.
The Link Exchange people are a bunch of scammers. They try to provide workarounds so that you can get to the top of a search engine quickly - and guess what? Search companies like Google have known about these schemes for years, and punish people who try to use them.
It's better to build a quality site, with quality content, and have legitimate people link to you. You will climb in the rankings naturally, visitors will respect you, and your site traffic will grow much more quickly!
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