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Google helps to enable a free and open internet by helping publishers monetize their content and advertisers reach prospective customers with useful, relevant products and services. Maintaining trust in the ads ecosystem requires setting limits on what we will monetize.
All publishers are required to adhere to our policies, so please read them carefully. If you fail to comply with these policies, we reserve the right to disable ad serving on your site or disable your account at any time. If your account is disabled, you will not be eligible for further participation in the AdSense program.
In accordance with our online Terms and Conditions, it's your responsibility to keep up to date with, and adhere to, the policies posted here.
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When you monetize your content with Google ad code, you’re required to adhere to the Google Publisher Policies. By content we mean anything present on your page or app - including user generated content like comment sections, other advertisements and links to other sites or apps. Attempting to monetize policy-violating content and failure to comply with these policies may result in Google blocking ads from appearing against your content, or your account being suspended or terminated.
These policies apply in addition to any other policies governing your use of Google publisher products.
Google Publisher Restrictions identify content that is restricted from receiving certain sources of advertising. By content, we mean anything present on your page or app - including other advertisements and links to other sites or apps.
Monetizing content that falls under the Google Publisher Restrictions is not a policy violation; instead, we restrict advertising on that content as appropriate, based on the preferences of each advertising product or advertisers’ individual preferences. Sometimes this will mean that no advertising sources are bidding on your inventory and no ads will appear on this restricted content.
We have buyers from multiple sources, which can include Google Ads, Authorized Buyers, DV360, Reservations, and others. So you may receive limited ads from some of these other sources but note that Google Ads (formerly AdWords) ads will not serve on content labeled with these restrictions.
So while you can choose to monetize content covered by the Google Publisher Restrictions, doing so will mean you’ll likely receive less advertising on this restricted content than you would receive on other, non-restricted content.
These restrictions apply in addition to any other policies governing your use of Google publisher products.
Google Publisher Policies outline the types of content we won’t monetize through any of our publisher products. These include policies against illegal content, dangerous or derogatory content, and sexually explicit content, among others. This is content that will never be allowed to show ads.
Google Publisher Restrictions, by contrast, outline the types of content, such as Tobacco or Recreational Drugs, that don’t necessarily violate policy but that may not be appealing for all advertisers. This means publishers will not receive policy violations but instead the content will be labeled with an inventory restriction and will likely receive less advertising, or sometimes no advertising, as the advertisers determine the demand.
The Policy center displays all of the current enforcements on your sites. Enforcements can either block all advertising (for example, "Ad serving disabled") or restrict which advertisers can bid on your inventory (for example, "Restricted demand").
You may receive enforcements due to various issues with your content:
Tip: To find out if you need to take action on an enforcement, review the "Must fix" column in your Policy center. The column will say "Yes" if an enforcement is due to a policy violation. It will say "No" for publisher restrictions.
Here are the answers to some frequently asked questions about Google Publisher Policies and Google Publisher Restrictions:
If the "Must fix" column says "No", it means that your site has content that falls under the Google Publisher Restrictions. We have buyers from multiple sources, which can include Google Ads, Authorized Buyers, DV360, reservations, and others. So while you can choose to monetize this type of content, you may receive limited ads from some of these other sources but note that Google Ads (formerly AdWords) ads will not serve on content labeled with these restrictions.
Monetizing content that falls under the Google Publisher Restrictions will not be a policy violation; instead, we’ll restrict advertising on that content as outlined above. So while you can choose to monetize content covered by the Google Publisher Restrictions, doing so will mean you’ll likely receive less advertising revenue on restricted content than you would receive on other, fully compliant content.
We understand that advertisers may not find the types of content listed under Google Publisher Restrictions to be appealing, or a good association with their brand, which is why we let them decide. Our advertisers have various categories that they can choose from, and not all will opt into sensitive categories. Therefore, the end result is that content labeled as a restriction may receive limited, or no monetization, however it’s not a policy violation.
Everything we do is designed to protect our publishers, our users and our advertisers. Where you choose to remove non-compliant content on pages, you should also remove any related ad code from that page so that ads are not served next to a blank space.
We understand that it may be an effort on your end to determine if any pages of your site are in violation of policies, but we're also responsible to our advertisers and users, and in order to keep them confident in the ecosystem, we must uphold our policies.
To be perfectly clear, we are not censoring publishers content through the removal of any content on their sites. We simply request the removal of our ad code on non-compliant pages.
You can use the filter and download options in the Policy center to help you find and manage policy violations and publisher restrictions: