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Defining invalid clicks and click fraud
We often receive questions from new publishers about what these two terms mean, and we'd like to help you understand the difference. Invalid clicks are clicks for which we decide not to charge our AdWords advertisers, since they may artificially drive...
Sharing your ad space
A number of publishers have asked us if it's acceptable to place multiple publishers' ad code on the same page or site. Often they'll run into this issue when two AdSense publishers manage a site together and both want to display their ads...
Promoting your referrals -- properly
Some of our publishers have asked us about the policies surrounding promotion for referral units, and so we'd like to address two of the most frequent areas of confusion. While the policies are generally the same for referrals as for standard AdSense...
Another look at optimizations
We've given you many optimization tips over the years, and, as you know, it's important to consider how your ad implementations affect not only your click-through rate, but your users' and advertisers' experience as well. To support this...
Engaging users with policy-compliant images and video
As it's becoming easier and easier to embed videos and pictures on websites, many publishers are now enhancing their current text content with relevant videos and photos. We wholeheartedly support adding these different forms of content to improve...
Play it safe, family-safe
Many of our publishers regularly ask what is exactly considered adult or mature content by AdSense policies. It's a lot easier to understand when we speak about family-safe content. As you may already know, only ads classified as family-safe will...
Policy updates -- and it's not even Thursday!
After our many weeks of policy posts on Thursdays, you're probably intimately familiar with all of our program policies . So we can imagine your surprise when you woke up today, got your morning coffee, and settled in for your daily re-read of the...