Can I have AdSense and other Ads on my site simultaneously?

I've been reading your book Growing Your Business on Google but you did not answer one question I have. Is it kosher to present Google ads on your site AND present ads from Yahoo or anyone else? Do they insist on exclusivity or can you mix and match?

Dave's Answer:

You can present ads from both Google (via its AdSense program) and other ad networks on the same Web pages, but there's a very important nuance: you can't have any automatic contextual advertising on the same page.

Let me explain what I mean by contextual ads, however, to clarify this point.

The coolest thing about AdSense is that all you have to do is include their code snippet on your Web page and Google's engine automatically figures out what your page is about and shows the most contextually relevant advertising they can serve up. If you have a dozen pages about a dozen different topics, then you'll find that the ads just magically are always tailored to each page's topic.

Google calls this "content-targeted advertising" and the AdSense terms of service explicitly prohibit you from including any other content-targeted advertising on your pages:

"... You further agree not to display on any Serviced Page any non-Google content-targeted advertisement(s)..."

Fortunately, there are legit and safe ways to sidestep this limitation, though they're not as flexible as AdSense itself. For example, with the new Chitika MiniMall advertising, you can specify a canned set of keywords for the advert to be included as you copy and paste their code onto your page: arguably that's more accurate than letting a program guess what your page is about anyway, but it is acceptable as an additional advert. (See my article Where can I buy a Sony PSP USB cable? for an example of a page with both AdSense and a Chitika advert).

You can also include banner ads (like the BlogAds network) or other advertising. It's all acceptable to the Google team, as long as the other advertising system doesn't automatically scan your page and ascertain the best ads to display on-the-fly.

If you'd like to learn more about AdSense, I suggest you start at my popular tutorial Get Started with Google AdSense.

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Reader Comments To Date: 20

john garris said, on May 15, 2006 8:15 AM:

I want my own page but am unsure how to go about it
I have banners from Money4net, Dreammerchants
Popups from Money4net
and popunders from Dreammerchants,casalmadia
I,m figuring that it all will pay $9.50 per thousand impressions
But am in need of someone who can help me install it all
Any suggestions?

Ben Youngblood said, on June 19, 2006 12:00 AM:

I have over 500 domains and we need a solution to make parking page and have adsense and overture/yahoo ads automated on the paking page from our choice of keywords??? we would also like to have a choice of headers for site that are relevant to domain???

Please help if you can, we'll pay

Kind regards,
Ben Youngblood

Shanmugaraj said, on August 10, 2006 8:02 AM:

Hi ,
how to place Google ads on my pages?
kindly mail me.

Thanks in advance

Madhu said, on February 15, 2008 1:34 AM:

well here is the simple quote from google that "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." which means your ads must not look as google ads thats all

mongobread said, on December 3, 2008 1:51 AM:

Nice tip for starting blogger like me.

piyush said, on January 24, 2009 10:31 PM:

thank you

Emily said, on July 26, 2009 12:26 AM:

Thanks for the suggestion.

Jose said, on September 9, 2009 1:45 PM:

Great info i currently run 4 sites and 3 of them i run adsense and was thinking of adding other networks but now i know what to do. Thanks!

Darren Chow said, on December 22, 2009 6:08 AM:

Exactly the answer I was looking for. Was wondering if I can add other ads to my adsense sites. Apparently the answer is yes.

lawal said, on January 5, 2010 4:04 AM:

I amd developing new web site for placing adv
ert. But i want advertisers to be able to place or upload the advert themselves anytime .pls how do i do it .
Thnks.
Lawal

meblogger said, on May 4, 2010 9:09 PM:

Can lijit ads (backfilled by adsense only) and adsense ads come in same page? since both ads are from adsense (in different format though, is it approved by adsense?

Holly Partons said, on October 19, 2010 7:54 PM:

Thanks! I was really confused by this as Google says that you can't have any clickable ads when you use adsense.

Naruto said, on August 29, 2011 7:37 AM:

At least, I've finally settled my confusion on this issue through this article. Thanks a lot.

Si kasep said, on October 23, 2011 5:48 AM:

Thank you fur such an useful informations about to add another adsense options. I was worry to get banned by Google-adsense if I put another ads publisher then, :)

Romnick said, on November 28, 2011 12:17 AM:

Can I used Adsense and Star Click simultaneously in my web page? I earned much in Star click if I will implement their HTML in my website.. I have n't started it yet, so can I solicit your advice on this?

Justin said, on April 9, 2012 4:51 AM:

Thanks for clarifying my doubt regarding this.

Justin said, on April 10, 2012 10:14 PM:

I recently put the bidvertiser and adsense ads together, but thanks to this article I found that this is not allowed and removed bidvertiser ads immediately from my blog

jeff said, on October 13, 2012 2:55 PM:

This information is really helpful. Thanks alot

Ramzes said, on October 30, 2012 12:22 AM:

Hello! I have one question. I have a web site and I want to use Adsense on it.But i have also videos which is uploaded on blip.tv so I use that player on my site and they show video ads,will I have any problems because of that with Adsense?Thanks

Jean said, on October 31, 2012 4:12 AM:

I've actually been considering multi-tasking my ads to double my pay as to just getting 1 form of income which isn't such a bad thing.In fact im looking for ads with good affiliate commision pay.Also im hoping with other ad networks it would display more attractive ads at the same time.i might go with chitika or use buysellads, maybe even bidvertisers.those are the top 3 i always come across without having to look for them, meaning it has to be legit since its always somewhere to be found. Hope some of you found this informative. thanks for reading

I do have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but first I'd like to say thank you, Dave, for all your helpful information by buying you a cup of coffee!

I do have a comment, now that you mention it!

Can I have AdSense and other Ads on my site simultaneously?

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