[glen]

Hi everyone,

When using CSS to set the absolute position or relative position of an element on the page (e.g. an image), there is a possibility that that the element will slightly overlap with a Google Adsense advertisement.

I have seen this occur on several websites and it is usually not intentional. I read through the Google TOS (Terms of Services) and could not find any comments directly on this point.

It did occur to me that having a little bit of intentional overlap might affect your CTR (or click through rate) but I have never tried it myself to know if the effect would be positive or negative.

As an example, I will use relative positioning to move the "adsense puppy" to the left so that it overlaps very slightly with the skyscraper.

I will use the following code

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style="position: relative; right: 50px;" [/color]/>

Here is a screenshot before the relative position was adjusted-



And a screenshot after the relative positioning was introduced -



I think this small change is sufficiently subtle that it would not break the Adsense TOS. Though if you have a contrary view let me know.

Cheers, Glen