I know this question has been floating on many websites & blogs lately. It has been even answered by zillion of people before. The same question as well has showed up in many different wording just few examples:
Can I mix Adsense & third party Ads on my site?
Can I run both of Adsense & bidvertiser, YPN, ClickSor or other third party ads on the same page?
Can I mix Adsense with bivertiser, YPN, ClickSor or other third party ads?
What is the condition to mix my Adsense Ads with Bidvertiser, YPN, ClickSor Ads?
These questions were answered in many different ways on some many websites & blogs. The bad part about it, 80% of the answers I were finding while searching about the answer were wrong. Yes, They were wrong.
Many people & even expert publisher still believe Adsense forbidden you from running another third party Ads campaign on the same page which contain Adsense Ads. Others believe it was forbidden to run third party context Ads on the same page which has google Ads. Both answers are incorrect. These believes have been established of Adsense older TOS. Adsense TOS has been changed to allow people to run any Ads campaign next to google adsense ads on the same page. The only condition to that is your third party Ads does not resemble google adsense Ads on your page. If you want to see this directly on google TOS look at this part of their TOS Found at Adsense TOS and copied as is below :
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Competitive Ads and Services
In order to prevent user confusion, we do not permit Google ads or search boxes to be published on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout and colors as the Google ads or search boxes on that site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure these ads cannot be confused with Google ads.
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Ok that part of the TOS still is not clear how much you have to do to avoid resembling Adsense Ads. After a long time of searching and e-mailing Adsense for the longest time, we had found out changing the coloring of your Third party Ads background or the full text to be different than your Adsense Ads is sufficient to avoid resembling it. Further more, it is a good idea to border your third party Ads or your Adsense Ads if placed very near of your Adsense Ads to distinguish the end of each. Why should you take my word on this. Well, b/c that what’s the adsense team had posted on their questions & Answers in regards of this policy at Adsense Ads mixing policy Questions & Answers. Exact copy of their answer is copied below.
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Can I place Google ads on the same page with other ads?
You’re welcome to display Google ads on the same site or page as other third party advertisements provided that the formatting or colors of the third party ads is different enough from that of the Google ads. In other words, if you choose to place non-Google ads on the same site or page as Google ads, it should always be clear to the user that the ads are served by different advertising networks and that the non-Google ads have no association with Google. If the formats are naturally similar, we ask that you choose different color schemes for the competing ads.
Our intent with this policy is to be as fair to our advertisers as possible and to maintain the integrity of the AdWords and AdSense programs. You can learn more about this, and all our policies, on our program policies page.
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Did you wonder why I am posting this although its available on Adsense Q&A? If you did, its because I hoped people will find this correct answer before they hit zillion of pages with the wrong answer before they even find Adsense official answers. Believe it or not, many people has taken these wrong answers about mixing Adsense with other Ads campaign for granted. They either did not care that much, or did not have the time to investigate it that deep. Over all it took me about 3 hours of searching to hit the correct answers, which a lot of people would rather not to waste on that.
Although by now Adsense allow you to mix their ads with your third party Ads like YPN (Yahoo Publisher Network), Clicksor, All Feeds, Fast Click, Veoda, Bidvertiser, Chitika, Target Point , Revenue Pilot, ClickThruTraffic, & more affiliate as long you make sure it does not resemble your page Adsense Ads as explained above. It is still your responsibilty to check if these third parties allow you to mix them with Adsense. For most they do, but yahoo is the one main exception to this. YPN require to be exclusive on the site who use their Ads.
I hope this blog will help many of you in making more money of your website or blog. If so I don’t mind to accept your donations :P.
Enjoy,
Thanks for informing me about this new update of google adsense rules. It was said to have been updated august 2008. Well congratulations now.
thanks for the info.. 😀
Thanks for sharing great info about adsense vs thirdparty ads….
Dunno how can I thank you for posting this article. It really breaks my long confusion about using Bidvertiser or Adbrite on my website. Thanks and more power.
i do not have any good experience with Bidvertiser, they pay lower than Adbrite so i do not use them on my website.***
I use both Adsense and Adbrite and i can say that adbrite is also a good source of income but not as good as adsense.~”;
I used Clicksor and Infolinks and i would have to say that infolinks pays better than clicksor.~;”
you can easily earn lots of dollars from adsense if you have a high traffic site.`.*
i tried adbrite but my ad earnings are not as good as adsense.;”:
i haven’t signed up with clicksor yet but i want to join that program too.’,`
it seems that my Adsense earnings this month have plumetted. i don’t know why `