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Have you guys seen the will it blend blog?  I love it

Just do the correct thing and follow the guidelines and everything will work out.  Its when people look for the loopholes in a system that they get in trouble.  As Matt Cutts said " money is the root of all spam marketing"

Telling me to change certainthings, but the odd thing is that the changes they requested we the very things suggested by an Adsense advisor a couple years back to me on the phone. Oh well,,,,,I made the changes asap.

Put it here, put it there, best here, best there, don't put it here, don't put it there - for the love of god can someone make their mind up! We look at the google recommendations then we hear that they are changing their tactics on adsense, then we go with googles recommendations on SEO methods then we hear they are changing their mind on that as well, pageranks - no-one knows .. basically this is the tactics that we would expect to see from 1st year webmasters trying to get their content right (like me!) but it's changing like the wind nowadays and unless your firmly established and can fall back on regular hits it's a game of cat and mouse all the time - I'm hanging around with adsense for a little while longer and then dropping them like a hot brick once I have other programmes in place!

The best results I ever received for Hawaii Vacation Rentals targeted ads was to put them under a headline that said, "But don't take our word for it, check out our competition."  Wonder how that will make out under new Google policy.

Google's AdSense program is a joke on both ends.  I send a decent number of clicks to the site--and a lot of impressions--and I make only the slimmest fraction of what I made when I first signed up.  When you first sign up, before AdSense is 'optimized' to your site, with traffic like mine you might make $5 to $6 a day.  Once the site is 'optimized' you will make around 1/4 of that.

Google encourages you to not use more than 3 ads per page and no more than 3 line ads (two different types), which would saturate your page with ad content and leave little or no room for genuine content of your own.  If you do that, you'll still make very little compared to what smaller ad networks (which are going out of business thanks to Google pressure) will make.

So let's say you advertise on Google AdSense, to try to get some of that publicity for yourself.  I tried that, foolishly.  While I was being paid myself somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 to 8 cents per click when someone clicked an ad on my site, I was paying other people 25 to 30 cents per click when someone clicked on one of my text ads on their site.  It just doesn't compute.

Google's advertising program is horribly broken.  I agree that they need to set guidelines to prevent webmasters from 'tricking' people into clicking.  It's common sense and I'm all for it.  But Google also needs to take a serious look at how it is treating those webmasters so that the program works as it should, rather than how it currently does.

This method of making paid ads look like content is why many advertisers like myself opt out of the content ads completely.

You complain that you lose revenue, but that revenue is THET if you fool the browser into thinking that the ad is anything but an ad, and the click does not conform to what the advertiser paid for.

Good for Google.

Unfortunately, it seems to me Google is hypocritcal at best, as I have certainly not  witnessed any transparancy on their part. Quite to the contrary, Google has been anything other than honest in their business dealings with AdSense customers, It is high time Google be held to account for their unethical monopoly and manipulation of the net.

Google still encourages publishers to blend their ads in with content through using similar colors. I think the key distinction is titles(always frowned on "visit our sponsors" titles) and line spacing. These seem to be the most confusing techniques to make users think the ads are actual content