Having said that, to start dictating where website owners can or cannot get their traffic is rather high brow to say the least. There are still countless traffic exchange surfers displaying Adsense ads, many of them probably 'newbies' and hardly likely to be putting much of a dent in advertisers budgets, apart from when they get their friends/family to click on a few ads, or do it themselves from other computers. When you see some hopefuls who create a gaggle of free Blogger blogs containing one post and a block of pay per click ads, surely you must see that you are not dealing the sharpest tools in the shed. It won't work people!! 

It is noticeable that few traffic exchange owners actively prohibit sites showing ppc advertising, and let's face it, should they have to? Some do put a warning to members on their sites and I think that satisfies their responsibility in the matter. I do know of one owner who actually prohibits any pages displaying Adsense, which must create a mountain of work to enforce, because, as we all know, rules like this will always be broken.

So, are Google out of order? Should they be able to lay down the law in this way? Ultimately, no matter what anyone thinks, it's a done deal. If you are a surfer and reading this, all I'll say is don't spend too much time getting excited about your first $100, because if you break the rules, you will get caught, and appealing will get you nowhere 99.9% of the time. 

In closing, in case anyone wonders, I currently don't utilize Adsense because I never did make a great deal with it as a publisher and from stories I've had related to me over time, it seems that Google give nary a jot for publishers and are almost looking to find reasons not to pay them. The first time I personally received a caution from Google I tried to find out what the problem was, but my queries were met with stony corporate silence. As a result, I pulled Adsense from the handful of sites I was using it on. For me, it was a matter of principle as well as not wanting to get banned. I mean, how can you be expected to rectify something if you're not told what it is? My earnings were far from substantial in any case. I haven't published Adsense since, though that's not to say I never will, but the Big Brother attitude towards mere mortals doesn't sit well with me. What do you think?

TCH

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