Just a post to let you know about a new Adsense policy change that will affect a lot of online publishers. Seems google has finally dropped the hammer “publicly” on the use of images near ads. You can read about the new policy here:

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/12/ad-and-image-placement-policy.html 

These are bad news for publishers hoping improve click-through rates by placing images next to Google ads.

Google is setting the record straight on positioning Google ads with thumbnail images. In brief, they do not want publishers to place images next to ads in a way that might mislead visitors to associate the ads with the image.

Below is an example of a violation: