Yes, Google could certainly make its own rules when it comes to these things. Traditionally, they haven’t done something this blatant, so I’m hopeful that this is a reflection of a silo-based work structure where the one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing.

It’s a classic case of the Golden Rule “He who has the Gold, Makes and Breaks the Rules” and we all know that Google has lots of gold.

I have always found it ironic how Google will penalize you if they think you are using a paid traffic source, but you can purchase as much of Adsense as your money can buy.

I was always lead to think that SEO and Adsense were like apples and oranges, If Google follows its own rules, then the ad would be somewhat misleading.

But I had heard a rumor that Google was having some indexing problems and you wonder if it is also impacting things on the Adsense side. Not sure if that is possible, as I am fairly new at this but maybe…