This is helpful to know for you MFA folk:
Google has announced that they are going to penalize sites in the search rankings that have too many ads above the fold.
Heres an example
... just kiddin... i doubt they are gonna block their own properties:

Heres a long article talking about it in detail
http://searchengineland.com/too-many...aign=feed-main
Google = a Joke.
I wish I was a fly on the wall with meetings between AdSense and AdWords...talk about a conflict of interests.
It's the same if the ads are in the footer but are moved above the fold using CSS ?