Is targeted contextual advertising program (like Google AdSense) related to Network Marketing or MLM ?
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No for a number of reasons:
- Adsense has no downline. In the Adsense program you are not required to recruit people and earn from them. But Adsense has a referral program where you get commission from every website owner you refer to their program https://www.google.com/adsense/referrals... -- but this does not make it MLM. This referral program is not the main essence of Adsense where website owners can earn when people respond to the ads (click or view)
- MLM typically requires some investment, albeit low to participate in the program. Adsense is free and does not require you to pay in order to join the program
- MLM typically wants you to sell their products as a distributor where you have to purchase these products beforehand. With Adsense, clicking on your own ads is a big no-no and can get you booted from the program. While you show their Adsense ads on your site, you are not allowed to actively sell it in terms of begging your site visitors to click on ads or even saying "support this site and click on the ads."
No.
It can be used as a means to advertise the mlm or the products, but the program like AdSense is just a media, like TV or billboards or direct mail.
No, it's not related to Network Marketing or Multi-level Marketing. While Google does pay referral commissions with AdSense and AdWords, the commissions are only paid out on one level.
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