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Auto Ads causing policy violations

Auto Ads, Policy Violation, More Ads than content

         

Seppone

10:22 pm on May 9, 2025 (gmt 0)



Hi folks,

I have gotten warning from google that they will restrict all ad serving on this site due to me violating the "More ads or paid promotional material than publisher-content"-policy if I don't solve the issue by Tuesday.
The thing is: My manually placed ads are policy compliant but through auto ads Google adds quite often more ads that lead to the violation.

Does Google really punish publishers for allowing auto ads?
With auto ads it's completely up to them where and in which size they place additional ads.

Of course, I could switch auto ads off (or parts of it) but this is sth. I wouldn't like to do since they bring substantial revenue.

I could just try and make my point - on the other hand I rather wouldn't want to run into site-wide restricted ad serving.
So would be really great to hear if someone experienced this before and how it turned out.

Cheers
S.

Juniya

1:16 pm on Jun 3, 2025 (gmt 0)

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I think the best way to fix this, for you, is to choose one or the other, either use manual ads or remove all manual ads and replace them with Auto-Ads.

I dunno what the update with this case is? Did you solve it?

Seppone

4:34 pm on Jun 3, 2025 (gmt 0)



I did some measures, reduced ad load a bit and they accepted it. Still not sure how strict they are with auto ads causing violations.

tangor

6:47 am on Jun 4, 2025 (gmt 0)

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There's a balance between content and ads. What that balance is is known only to g, though they tend to punish ad farm abuse. MEANWHILE, always consider your USERS. If all they see is ads and little content will they come back?

rafraf

9:16 am on Jun 4, 2025 (gmt 0)

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You can set the minimum space between ads in auto ads. What's more it was always clear by google, you need more content visible than ads, when you scroll viewport.

shadowlight

10:35 am on Jun 8, 2025 (gmt 0)

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What's more it was always clear by google, you need more content visible than ads, when you scroll viewport.


Pity they don't practice what they preach when it comes to the SERP'S.