Simple yet... garish

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It's like nothing I have ever or would ever design, but the Adsense ads blend in that well one may easily mistake it as a part of the content...

http://www.stupidexe.com/

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It's like nothing I have ever or would ever design, but the Adsense ads blend in that well one may easily mistake it as a part of the content...

http://www.stupidexe.com/

One slight problem, though. Well, two, actually.

First of all, there are four ad blocks (three in Italian which scroll, and one in English on the left which remains static) which I THINK is one too many.

Second, that English ad on the left. The ad block does not move as you scroll and is therefore in violation of Google's policy. Specifically "Publishers are not permitted to alter the behavior or targeting of Google ads."

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One slight problem, though. Well, two, actually.

First of all, there are four ad blocks (three in Italian which scroll, and one in English on the left which remains static) which I THINK is one too many.

Second, that English ad on the left. The ad block does not move as you scroll and is therefore in violation of Google's policy. Specifically "Publishers are not permitted to alter the behavior or targeting of Google ads."

I had to make a determined effort to find all these ads because they were so garishly yet superbly blended :D

To be honest when I first saw the site I only saw the one on the right hand side.

But I see them all now.

The ad that doesn't scroll would be acceptable. The site is made of frames. And it's situated in the navigation frame. Which is why those ads are in English, the link names are in English.

Which might be why the person has four ads when looking at this mainpage. He's got one in a navigation frame and three on the content page itself. (http://www.stupidexe.com/all.php which when opened by itself then reloads the entire framed site. I guess it's like breaking out of a frame but also back into a frame).

Perhaps by doing it this way he is not breaking any rules, because he has the allotted amount of ads per page. I can't recall if Google gets specific about this sort of thing and gives illustrations of Do's and Don't's.

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The ad that doesn't scroll would be acceptable. The site is made of frames. And it's situated in the navigation frame. Which is why those ads are in English, the link names are in English.

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Perhaps by doing it this way he is not breaking any rules, because he has the allotted amount of ads per page. I can't recall if Google gets specific about this sort of thing and gives illustrations of Do's and Don't's.

Trust me on this one :) Since I implemented it myself, I'm pretty darn certain that the non-scrolling one is not acceptable. At least, it wasn't to the particular rep who had the decency to let me know. My image placement was next to them and they didn't have a problem with that, but the ad itself was not in compliance because it was delivered in such a way that altered the normal viewing experience. ie, it was always there even though the page scrolled down for a ways.

I suspect this particular site hasn't been slapped mainly because Google hasn't seen it yet.