Would this violate the agreement?

Donating month's earnings to tsunami appeal classed as incentive to click?

[Richie0x]

I was thinking of donating all of the money earned through adsense clicks on my website in January to the SE Asia disaster appeal. Would placing a note next to the ads explaining this be classed as an incentive for users to click? Would that not be allowed according to the Google TOS?

[BaseVinyl]

No it is not allowed

[diamondgrl]

Do not do it!

[Richie0x]

Ok.

[irock]

To see why, you are also asking merchants to 'donate' without their conscent while Google pockets perhaps half of the 'donations'. Anyway, Adsense's TOS states you shouldn't put any statements that may create incentive for visitors to click.

[annej]

It's not really fair to the advertizers as people would click when they aren't really interested in the ad. Plus as mentioned above it's against TOS.

Consider putting a link to a place where your visitors can contribute on thier own.

two links I'm using are
[unicefusa.org...]
and
[s1.amazon.com...]

I contributed to the Red Cross through Amazon this morning and it took me less than a minute.

Even though you would lose some adsense clicks by having links like this it would be a way to help the cause.

[Macro]

>> I was thinking of donating all of the money earned through adsense clicks on my website in January

You could replace all your adsense ads with charity ads for the Tsunami victim charities [google.com]. In fact, they'll probably get more that way than if you donated your earnings. And you'll keep your Adsense account.

[Macro]

Here's a CTR I'm glad to disclose: The charity ads I've created for this purpose are getting a CTR of 25%. They go directly to that Google charity link in my previous post. I'm looking for some better ads [webmasterworld.com] if anyone can help.