Google decided that publishers may not line up images and ads in a way that suggest they’re related. Obviously many developers do this because a picture is worth a thousand words. Google says,:

If your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that the advertiser is offering the exact item found in the neighboring image, they may click the ad expecting to find something that isn’t actually being offered. That’s not a good experience for users or advertisers.

There use to be some confusion over whether a line could be placed between the Google ad unit and the image. No! If the ad and image appear to be associated, inserting a small line will not make the ad legit.

Don’t worry… you are still allowed to place images on the same page as your Google ads. Just arrange them in a way that won’t confuse your visitors.

Well, what do unacceptable implementations look like? Here are some examples that wouldn’t comply with Google’s policies.

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Kontera is a leading provider of In-Text Advertising. Their ContentLink technology reads your blog posts in real-time and automatically turns the word into a link to the most relevant ad from among Kontera´s thousands of advertisers.

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CG-InBetween by David Chait is a must have plugin for you bloggers that want to sprinkle adds between your blogs. All you have to do is install this plugin and add one line of code to your WordPress theme. From the author,

With a one-line addition to your theme, CG-Inbetween can then make it easy to add things like Adsense between posts. Or anything else. You can echo HTML directly, call a PHP function (like QuickPHP), AND/OR include an html/php file. And you can do so for every post in the loop, the n’th post, the Last post of the loop, or only for Single posts (and pages). Admin panel makes it easy.

The best thing about this plugin is that you can use it to create sort of a sticky post. I wanted to create an area above my newest post that wasn’t editable or commentable, and didn’t have the date posted, etc. Similar to a post, but missing those elements.

First you’ll need to install CG-InBetween. I’ll assume you know how to add plugins to wordpress.

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