Pages with adsense and slooooow loading tables

[esllou]

how's this for scummy and spammy?

Came across a site last night which, when I entered the page, disabled the back button (always classy!) and showed left column adsense sky immediately followed by a loooooooong wait for the main table to load up (what do you put into a table to make it do that?....actually, don't say as it will give too many lurkers on these forums ideas!)

so the page was totally blank except for the left adsense sky for around 10 seconds....and no back button! Now that webmaster, if brought up before Judge Google, will just say "oh, sorry. I am a terrible web designer"

nothing obviously "against" Google TOS is there?

[brotherhood of LAN]

no doubt people are "at it" with some of their techniques.

A slow loading table can be a result of a single table holding all of the content, it won't render on the screen until it's fully loaded. Maybe the author of the page knows that, maybe he doesn't, I'd guess "probably" if he's disabling your back button.

IMHO the slow loading table isnt something that's going to be banned purely because it loads slowly.

[Small Website Guy]

I had the same problem with one of my websites. It's because IE sucks, the tables load nice and zippy in Opera and Netscape.

The fix is to learn how to use DIVs to layout your page instead of the TABLE.

[ChrisKud5]

Google employees were too busy hanging around Nasdaq drinking coffee rather than keeping tabs on adsense sites and making sure they are worthy of adsense.

[oaktown]

My 2.3 cents, for what it may or may not be worth...any page that "traps" the visitor, with the meta command or by any other means deserves the most severe penalty available. It is rude and against the free-range nature of the web. (sigh) But who's gonna enforce it?

[Rodney]

I think disabling the back button is against the adsense TOS, isn't it?

Although I've seen the back button "disabled" unintentionally by just opening a link in a new window. Then there is no page to go "back" to.

[blue_eagle]

So did you report that site? You should! If you didnt report it and see what google says.

[HitProf]

I wonder why disabling the back button is not allowed for AdWords but no problem for AdSense or organic results.

[hfguide]

I can vouch for SWG... I get the same effect for one of my sites. It's totally unintentional. On Mozilla, everything loads instantaneously (within seconds-- tables and all), but with IE6, users will sit staring at a Google Adsense leaderboard for nearly thirty seconds before the rest of the site loads, making me look like a scumbucket. (Making matters worse is that IE6 will "announce" that the site has finished loading just because the header has, even though the rest of the site hasn't and is still loading). Mind you-- as SWG said-- no problems in Mozilla. But super slowwwwww in IE6. It's very frustrating.