It was a complete accident, I assure you. I knew about the new Adsense rule - you may not have pictures next to your Adsense blocks any longer.

I thought I had gotten around to changing all my sites, but apparently I forgot one.

Sure enough, this morning Google blocked that site from showing Adsense, and my income on that site dropped to zero.

“No big deal”, I thought. “I’ll just remove the offending images and switch it over to YPN while I wait for Google to reallow the site.”

I made the necessary changes and switched my ad code over to YPN.

I hit refresh in my browser. Hmm.. The pictures were gone, but still no ads.

I clicked on View Source - maybe something got fargled up.

Nope - the YPN code was there. Maybe there was something wrong with YPN.

Nope - I checked my other YPN sites - ads were showing no problem.

I took the exact code that was not displaying on my Google-disapproved site, and pasted it into a different site.

Ads showed up immediately.

I waited an hour or two, and rechecked - still no ads on the formerly image-enhanced site.

Now, almost 12 hours later, still no ads from either YPN or Adsense.

The only logical conclusion I can come to, based on these tests, is that Google is somehow sharing it’s “bad list” with YPN. If you have a domain that gets banned for Adsense, somehow it’s also getting banned for YPN.

Can anyone confirm or deny?