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Page only for adsense - ip based site, legal?

using google_kw for sure

AjiNIMC

4:40 pm on Apr 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

I just got an email from a very big job portal, they had adsense inside the email. I knew it is illegal to have adsense in email (Google book sec 5.v [google.com], so I clicked on it to see the effect.

I saw that these ads were not from Google (but was labeled as "Ads by Google") but they were links to pages created for Google adsense. Pages with no content, just plain ads. Also very targetted ads, so I suspected the use of google_kw (I think they are premium members, so they might be allowed to use google_kw). Also these pages were hosted on IP based site without any domain name.

Can premium members create such pages which are

without any content, only ads, targeted based on google_kw?
hosted on ip based site than a branded domain?
(sending such links through emails using Google's name?)

Regards,
AjiNIMC

[edited by: AjiNIMC at 4:45 pm (utc) on April 16, 2007]

pacman2

6:04 pm on Apr 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

1) this is definitely against TOS, it's forbidden to place adsense on sites without any proper content. however, we all know thousands people do it everyday with their MFA sites

2) it doesnt matter if you have your website on IP or domain

3) that's also 100% against Google's terms of service

incrediBILL

2:55 am on Apr 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

That's nothing you even need to think twice about.

Forward to Google support, let them drop the hammer.

AjiNIMC

10:54 am on Apr 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have informed the owners, may be we are missing some facts.