Google Adsense with Amazon Omakase & Chitika

A few days ago i sent an email message to the Google Adsense team regarding the use of Chitika contextual ads and Amazon Omakase on the same page with Google Adsense (if you’ve read my previous adsense tips, you’ll know why i prefer to ask adsense team). And today i just received a reply from them (it’s took a little longer than usual to received this email message, but im fine with that because in their auto-generated message, it says that due to the long holiday weekend in the U.S., there may be a delay in responding to your email. Please be assured that we’ll respond just as soon as we can) ..

and here’s what they said about using adsense with other contextual advertisement :

Hi Aditya,

AdSense publishers may display ads from other contextual ad networks on the same page as Google ads only if the formatting or color scheme of these ads is sufficiently different from the layout 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’d ask that you use different color schemes for the competing ads.

Of course, we’re constantly investing in our advertising technology, and we believe that Google ads will monetize best for most publishers. Be aware that the addition of third party ads to your site may cause fewer users to click the Google ads on your site and thus your AdSense earnings may decrease. We’d also recommend that publishers be careful not to place excessive advertising on their sites, as doing so may result in fewer repeat visitors.

Sincerely,

Sean
The Google AdSense Team

As you can see on that email message, it says that it is possible to use Adsense with Amazon Omakase and various Chitika product, as long as the other contextual ads are using different color schemes if the competing ad service offer similar format like adsense

Other than that i also agree that plastering your site with various advertisement will reduce your site visitors, but in my opinion … my site is still better than many other site / blog which is using advertisement on their site .. ;)