Can I use adsense with link exchanges?

Can I use a site with AdSense  ads on it with link exchanges? I don’t know the answer to this and the opinion of the people differs from yes to no. Would Google ban an AdSense account if the owner links one of their site that has AdSense ads on it to a link exchange?

Although most sites don’t make a lot of money with AdSense ads  but it’s still an income and perhaps pays the hosting  and domain name cost. One needs to have at least 100 visitors per day to their site to make some money with adsense, considering a 5% click through rate and that would just about pay the hosting fee if they get about .10 cents per click.

Can one have Google adwords drive the traffic to a site with adsense on it?  I don’t know the answer to this either. I think if you sell something on that site or you have other content than adsense ads on it, you should be able to. After all,  adwords was set up, to drive traffic to a website and adsense is to motivate site owners to display those ads. So why shouldn’t be this practice allowed? Shouldn’t I be able to advertise my site with adwords just because I have adsense on it, to make some extra money?  I think I should be allowed. If Google don’t want people to use adwords and adsense together than it should be in the first paragraph in the adwords and in the adsense TOS.

I couldn’t find anything firm on this searching the net and I don’t think there is anything firm about it in the Google terms of service either. If there is anything about this,  it’s sure is not clearly stated and well hidden.

Why should anyone be banned for life from using Google AdSense if the y don’t know this and there is no clear information about it anywhere on the net.  Suspend the account for a month or two perhaps but not life.

Of course Google is a company and do whatever they want just like any other company. The difference is that Google became a public company to serve the public in general without any particular niche or customer base. Meaning, just like a governmental agency serving the public, Google does the same on the same level. So it should not be looked as just a company.

It’s a world institution that is serving the public so it should serve everyone equally. Google became a public need company and thus should fall under different regulation than just a regular company or corporation. Just like banks. Different rules apply to them than to a company that sells screws. Not because of the merchandise they handle but because of what they serve.

Of course they are obligated to protect the advertisers money, by enforcing the rules and to avoid fraudulent clicks, but what is that have to do with using adwords to drive traffic to my site that has adsense ads on it?

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