Adsense & Image placement update

Referring to one of my earlier posts - Adsense Image Beautifier, a plug-in which added an image adjacent to the ads. Finally Google have come up with a post for Ad and image placement: a policy clarification which states that the publishers should not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads.

Publishers should also be careful to avoid similar implementations that people could find misleading. Putting up a horizontal or vertical line between the image and ads would not also make that legal. So be careful as Google will be on hunt for those who put adsense ads along with images. I had also installed that plug-in on my blog which have been removed now. I think its good that Google had finally put an end to issue by publicly stating that this stuff is illegal after receiving complaints from advertisers.

Here are some examples provided by Google that wouldn’t comply with the policy :