Correct positioning of AdSense

[MAllie]

Can anyone advise me as to what is allowed or not allowed in relation to the positioning of AdSense on a site, or give me a link to their rules about this. I read through the rules I found on their site, but they didn't mention positioning.

There was a reference to illegal placing somewhere else on the forum recently, but the suggestion was the coding had been changed to achieve this, so hopefully I won't come against this.

Are there any rules, for example, about the number of box ads you can have per page, or is it all just a matter of taste or design?

[draggar]

You are not allowed to edit the code and they must be displayed as ads - not as part of the site / article (which is kinda hard to do w/o editing the code).

No more than 3 units per page, too.

[MAllie]

Originally Posted by draggar

You are not allowed to edit the code and they must be displayed as ads - not as part of the site / article (which is kinda hard to do w/o editing the code).

No more than 3 units per page, too.

Thanks, Ed. But when you say 'no more than 3 units,' what exactly does this refer to? Surely it's not 3 ads, as I've seen landing pages with 10 or more on them.

[trader]

A unit can contain multiple ads, depending on unit size.

If you also have an Adlink bar too I believe you can have one more set of ads in addition to the 3 units, for 4 total, last time I checked that anyway. Read their TOS.

[MAllie]

Originally Posted by trader

A unit can contain multiple ads, depending on unit size.

If you also have an Adlink bar too I believe you can have one more set of ads in addition to the 3 units, for 4 total, last time I checked that anyway. Read their TOS.

Thanks, Trader. I'm trying to find them to do that. But a book I've come across says you're only allowed 2 units per page, so I need to check that too.

[Acro]

This is a good FAQ.

[trader]

Originally Posted by Acro

This is a good FAQ.

good info.

[MAllie]

Originally Posted by Acro

This is a good FAQ.

Thanks, Acro. I'll give it a good read.

I've read it now, Acro, and there's a line: You can place one link unit and 3 regular ad units.

I'm not sure what these are. Would a large rectangular box be a link unit or a regular ad unit?

[Stylosa]

http://www.blogstew.com/google-adsense/adsense-noobies/

Some basic adsence info there, hope it helps.

Originally Posted by MAllie

Thanks, Acro. I'll give it a good read.

I've read it now, Acro, and there's a line: You can place one link unit and 3 regular ad units.

I'm not sure what these are. Would a large rectangular box be a link unit or a regular ad unit?

Originally Posted by Stylosa

http://www.blogstew.com/google-adsense/adsense-noobies/

Some basic adsence info there, hope it helps.

When you set up the ad type from the adsence control panel you select which add type you want.

Basically the link units are lines of text link ads. Genreally speaking anything inside a box or banner is a regular adsence unit.

Its fairly simple to work out whats what, when you look at the ad creation control panel.

[MAllie]

Thanks so much for that, Stylosa. I'm going to check out the link right now.