AdSense Blacklist: Blacklisted From AdSense
So, last week, I wrote a neat site, AdSense Blacklist.com, which helped you figure out which illegitimate sites you should be blocking from displaying in your AdSense ads. Well, AdSense Blacklist made money with AdSense ads, and they’ve been kicked out of the AdSense program, as you can read on their site. Why? Because they had AdSense in the name.
I don’t get it. Yes, Google wants to protect their trademarks. And yes, Google doesn’t want AdSense farms with AdSense in the title gaming the system. But this site was providing a legitimate service to AdSense publishers, so what gives? Is it wrong to have an AdSenseTips.com site, or an AdSenseForum.com site?
Hell, will Google ban sites with Google in the URL?
Like this one?
Anyway, you can now find the very same site, no changes, at AdsBlacklist.com. Enjoy!
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If you don’t defend trademarks against all comers, you can’t successfully defend trademarks against anyone.
Comment by billg | March 27, 2006
It’s often more difficult to draw the line between which sites are acceptable and which are not, then to just ban them all.
Comment by Randy Charles Morin | March 28, 2006
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What a spirit?
I like it!!!
Great Job!!!
Comment by emma | March 28, 2006
The trouble is Google seems to be making up the rules as they go along.So much of how they opperate and make decisions on what is ok and what is not, is shrouded in secrecy!
Comment by Paul Winter | March 30, 2006
Wow, Nathan,
Do you always take everything at face value? An interesting story about the blacklist is sitting in front of your face and you can’t even see it.
http://www.corruptdmozeditor.com/2006/03/adsense-blacklist.html
Comment by Ana Thema | March 30, 2006
[…] In other news, if you remember the AdSense BlackList story from last week, there have been questioned raised about the reliability of the person run the Ads BlackList site. I’m not going to get involved with the AdSense community (that would require a whole nother blog, so hopefully they’ll all sort this out. […]
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