Based on this discussion it seems that Chat sites are no longer allowed to host adsense adverts. I have a website that is predominantly content, but chat is still a very important part of my site. I'd love to be able to keep it and still earn money.QUESTIONSCan anyone confirm that adsense is not allowed on sites that have chat? If it is partly true, what is compliant with the adsense TOS and what is not? For instance, is having a chat page with no advertising on that chat page ok?What adsense alternatives are there that allow a website to advertise and to have chat scripts?
Is adsense banning websites that have chat?
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There is a difference between a chat site and a site with chat. Many legitimate sites have chat features for customers contact customer service, support, or even each other. As long as the content of chats is not publicly accessible you have a site with chat. If chats are visible to all -  hence crawlable - you have a chat site.Regardless of chat or not, Google does not like its ads next to certain type of contents. In the case of a largely static site, they can keep track and the mediapartner crawler probably flags them if a change adds some terms they do not like.For this reason I suspect you can still use AdSense on portions of a site which feature their own non-chat content. Even if another part of the page may have a chat box. As long as its out of the way from the AdSense ads, you are probably OK. However, I would check with Google and use your AdSense account to send them a message about it.