Google Adsense

Cheetah Designs · 22 Sep 2006 at 11:44

Hi there,

I am hoping to setup a site where the user has to click on an advertisement to download.

Is this legal it terms of, will Google Adsense allow it? Is there any other advertisements places that will allow you to do this?

Is this actually possible to do?

Thanks.

Van Hellseek · 22 Sep 2006 at 12:20

Cheetah Designs said:
Is this legal it terms of, will Google Adsense allow it?

no, it goes against googles rules.

You're not even supposed to ask people to click your ads, let alone make them.

Augmented · 22 Sep 2006 at 12:26

^

Incentives

Web pages may not include incentives of any kind for users to click on ads. This includes encouraging users to click on the ads or to visit the advertisers' sites as well as drawing any undue attention to the ads. For example, your site cannot contain phrases such as "click here," "support us," "visit these links," or other similar language that could apply to any ad, regardless of content. These activities are strictly prohibited in order to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs. In addition, publishers may not bring unnatural attention to sites displaying ads or referral buttons through unsolicited mass emails or unwanted advertisements on third-party websites. Publishers are also not permitted to use deceptive or unnatural means to draw attention to or incite clicks on referral buttons.

https://www.google.com/adsense/policies

Lagz · 22 Sep 2006 at 16:54

Cheetah Designs said:
Hi there,

I am hoping to setup a site where the user has to click on an advertisement to download.

Is this legal it terms of, will Google Adsense allow it? Is there any other advertisements places that will allow you to do this?

Is this actually possible to do?

Thanks.

As above its against google's T&C. Furthermore I doubt any advertiser would want to participate in such a scheme - because they know full well that people are clicking on it and closing it instantly rather than clicking on it because they want to.

Van Hellseek · 22 Sep 2006 at 17:03

Lagz said:
As above its against google's T&C. Furthermore I doubt any advertiser would want to participate in such a scheme - because they know full well that people are clicking on it and closing it instantly rather than clicking on it because they want to.

and costing them bandwidth in the process.