affiliate marketing/ arbitrage

[adsensenebie99]

I notice that alot of affiliate marketing sites have adsense on them but they still market their sites using adwords or other pay per click/paid traffic.

I read on some other forum that this is considered arbitrage and that their sites will be banned from adsense. On another forum I got the impression that as long as you got some unique content on your site you are still allowed to do this.

I was looking at some of the earners forum posters websites and I get the impression that many of them are heavily into arbitrage but that they get away with this due to the above mentioned reasons. Can anyone PM me back with some info on this topic as I am keen to get into the business but dont want to get banned from the start.

one example ( will not mention the sitename)

clicked on a earners forum members website and got to a front page that had basically a enter site here option and a bunch of google adsense adds on one site and 4 headers like make money, need money, easy money and free money each linking to a page with like only 10 google adsense adds without any other content...

is this allowed? And if the website entreprenour who owns this particular site is reading this...is it profitable?

sorry if this is obvious and I sound like a complete donkey for asking but I am new at this

[peter_d]

If you're concerned about getting banned from Adsense, then you need to stick closely to their rules.

Obviously some people push it.

In my experience, Google seem quite flexible, so long as you're not deceiving visitors, or drawing too much attention to the Adsense so as to decrease value to their advertisers. They have been quoted as saying "ads are content".

If you think of the ads this way, you'll find the rules can be interpreted fairly liberally.

[cldnails]

I agree with pd, Google is not going to just drop the ban hammer on a site for running adsense along with a Adwords campaign. Frankly it doesn't make sense, unless they are blatantly in violation of google TOS.

I saw somewhere where they Google supposedly said that if you were only running a content site, with adsense, then it was considered MFA. It's ridiculous, what they expect people who are actually selling a product to advertise for competition. pfft

Everytime Google sneezes there is someone there to lap it up.