Google Adwords "Back Button" Flash Issue

Intro flash keeps home page back from going to Google

[Berit]

One of our clients is unable to sign up for Adwords because the web site we created for the company has a Flash intro. Google's policy is that the user must be able to hit the back button once from the home page to return to Google (keeps out porn sites, I think). When the user hits the back button on our client's site, s/he is taken to the intro Flash again.

Does anyone know of any easy way to have Google users return to Google with one click of the back button?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Berit

[Googlor]

Hi Berit,

2 solutions to your problem

1st send users to the page after the intro

2nd If its important for people to see the intro screen then you'll have to turn off the redirect on this page. Let the user himself chose to enter the website.

But on a personal note I think you'll lose some clients by sending them to a intro screen, long gone are the days that these were useful. Now users are after information as quick as possible, if you make them watch a flash intro and/or click yet another button before they need to get into your store they probably won't be happy.

This about it this way if every time you went to Wal-Mart you had to watch a 15 second video before you could enter the store would you go back? Would you go at all?

[amznVibe]

If you redirect the page using javascript's location.replace, the current page gets taken out of the history sequence on most browsers.

Example:

window.location.replace('http://example.com/next-page/');

this means if the visitor is on the 2nd page and hits "back" they skip over the previous page and end up at Google again (on most browsers)