The practice of placing images above or next to AdSense banners has been around for a while — the idea is to trick visitors into thinking that the Google Ads are click-able image captions. Now, Google has officially announced that the practice is NO LONGER allowed. This is a good move on Google’s part as it shows to their advertisers that they care about them even if it might cost them in the short run. I have run across quite a few sites that were intermixing images and ads to try to get people to accidentally click on the ads. There is nothing worse than being tricked into clicking on an advertisement when you were expecting something completely different. With the new rule changes it should, hopefully, decrease the number of illegitimate clicks while increasing the revenue on legitimate clicks. Thank you Google!