Earning more with AdSense tip: Grab the hot trends

Now this is weird. I’ve read somewhere, don’t ask me where though, that if you have a page displaying the Google HotTrends and placing near them AdSense ad blocks will give some extremely good results.

As an AdWords user, I say this is not true as it’s not a rule that the keywords from the HotTrends have higher cost per click.

Anyway, I made a little experiment. I grabbed the HotTrends Atom feed with Magpie RSS parser then placed near them two Adsense adverts: a Skyscraper and a Link unit. On this page that content is brought with an IFrame, because I don’t want the AdSense BOT to crawl for keywords other than the HotTrends’. As AdSense Mediabot can’t brake out of an IFrame, it’s perfect for this situation.
I have a small concern about the experiment violating some AdSense policy, specifically the “content-less page” part. Whatever, I hope it doesn’t. I would write them an e-mail asking for permission but I usually don’t get answer, so I just don’t write. Whatever.

Let’s see the IFramed Trends:

The trends you see, that’s sure. If on the right side of the trends you see some big red blocks, it means there was no content the AdSense BOT can crawl, thus will display alternate color.

If there are ads, all’s good. Will report how they performed if there will be earning resulting from the trends’ ads. Or that’s another policy issue?