does clicking ads in cached pages pay?

[sallam]

I'm thinking of using a meta tag to disallow caching my pages in search engines. But before I do, I need to know: is there any potential or revenue that could possibly come from someone viewing a cached page and then click on an ad there?
does adsense count such clicks made from search engine-cached pages?

[lammert]

As far as I know yes, all pages which include your publisher code are counted as clicks, including those cached by the search engines.

[nonni]

If an ad is weeks or months old, the advertiser may no longer be active ... not sure how they would respond to a bill from Google at that point. If the advertiser still has an campaign running, then the lead is a lead and I'm guessing it would be counted as a click.

[edited by: nonni at 12:51 pm (utc) on Jan. 13, 2006]

[Dayo_UK]

The ads arent cached - just the code - therefore the Adsense ads are current.

[trillianjedi]

the advertiser may no longer be active

The ads are pulled live, even from the cache.

TJ

[ashii]

If an ad is weeks or months old, the advertiser may no longer be active ... not sure how they would respond to a bill from Google at that point.

Search engine cache the page text NOT the ads.so ads are always live served from Google.