The image and video content that you embed in your blogs/websites that run Adsense units may conflict with Adsense program policies. Hence, the Inside AdSense blog is reminding site owners who are running Adsense units to make sure that these images and videos are not offensive or disturbing enough to make advertiser feel uncomfortable to be displayed side by side with their advertisements.
Site owners who are publishing Adsense units on their sites must take note of these three types of content categories and as much as possible avoid posting these kind of contents on their sites.
- Adult or mature content videos and images that contain sexual activity, full nudity and lewd poses.
- Images and videos that contain violent or gory details of street-fighting, people hurting each other or gruesome accidents and their victims.
- Images and contents promoting racial intolerance or advocating against a specific individual, group or organization.
And of course, aside from these types of image and video contents, Adsense publishers must also not place Adsense units on sites that have images and videos which publishers do not own or have no license from the copyright owner. I guess that’s pretty much self-explanatory.
I got the same reminder from inside adsense group.
thank you for reminding me again :)
It’s good to be aware of this and if you do cross the line and get dumped by Google then their realy is no excuse. The rules are pretty clear on the matter, if not then submit your site for review.
An event promoter posts links to mp3s of artists who will play on his event on my site forum. Google found it and informed me that my site will NEVER AGAIN be accepted into AdSense for violating their policies. I wasn’t given a chance to explain it was valid content or did they care that I removed it 5 minutes after I got their email. PS: That’s my most geuine and original content website. Google happily continues to serve ads on some of my crappy little adsense loaded websites. Lesson: Never install ads in Web 2.0 content. You WILL be burnt sooner or later.