Dealing with user-generated content can be a tricky business, as your users will be adding their comments, uploading photos and images in your comments sections and guest books, etc. User generated content is highly useful for blogs, sites, forums, etc., but they can be troublesome too.
User-generated contents like comments are highly useful as they add valuable content to your blog or site and can be monetized, and many publishers are doing so profitably and effectively. Moreover, comments add value to your blog because your readers find a useful forum to discuss their views. If you actively promote user interaction, your blog will become very popular too.
While user-generated content is useful, they can be sometimes very harmful, both monetarily and branding your site or blog as one with inappropriate content or non family-safe. Inappropriate content or non family-safe content does not qualify you for displaying AdSense ads according to AdSense program policies. So, if users post inappropriate contents, and if you do not moderate or remove them, you may sometimes end up getting your AdSense account suspended by Google.
Inappropriate contents can also appear as links to adult sites with no words/text suggesting that the link is potentially harmful. You must also avoid comments or user-generated contents on violence, drugs, etc. that are not permitted by AdSense program policies.
The biggest problem is that you cannot know if such harmful comments/ contents are placed in comments, especially if your site/ blog is too big with thousands of pages. There are a few methods to restrict these problems, like installing filters and mechanisms that help you avoid such harmful contents.
Another way is to include a form link using which users can report you about inappropriate content and when you receive such messages, you can immediately remove the harmful content.
For more information and methods to deal with this problem, read AdSense guidelines by Inside AdSense Team posted to Inside AdSense. In case you have any questions or comments you are welcome to use the comment box and express it. I will be happy to reply to you, or provide you the appropriate link to Google’s guidelines.
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