Tell visitors to click ad (not adsense) allowed?

For banner ads on a page with no adsense ads

[dzcap]

I plan to sell banner ad spots (1000 clicks) on one of my page, this page does not have any adsense ads on it, but the other pages of the site does. Can I tell my visitors to click the banner on the page with no adsense ads on it? And some of the advertisers have adsense ads on their site.

I know this is somewhat inflating clicks to the banner advertiser, but I will make it clear to them before they sign up about this and they will know exactly where their banner is placed.

So is it OK to do this on a page with no adsense ads on the same page? And OK with adsense ad on the same page?

It'll be like "Click this banner!" right above the banner ad.

[Rodney]

To get a definite answer, it would probably be best to email the Adsense team with an example of how you plan to do it so they can give you the final "official" ruling.

Sounds like it might be borderline, but I wouldn't do it.

People will click or not click on their own, if I was an advertiser (even paying by CPM), I wouldn't want a click like that.

Maybe you could let each advertiser give you some text that they would like under the ad, and you can make this text clickable.

Like if you had a banner for john's widget farm, under the banner, john could have the text "get fresh widgets at john's widget farm".

This would let visitors know that the ad is clickable and add value to the advertising run for the advertiser by giving them more space for their message.

[ken_b]

I believe the TOS says no "click here", for any ads anywhere on the site, Adsense or otherwise. I'd assume that means no "click the banner" either.

I would very strongly suggest you not do that.

It isn't worth risking losing your Adsense account over.

[Roadkill]

I wouldn't do it.

[moTi]

the banner itself should convince users to click, not you.

[dzcap]

The advertisers are aware of the "Click this banner" text as I am just sending the # of clicks. I'll ask Google about this and send them a testing page before implementing this. Thanks everyone.

[jahfingers]

If you're making good money off of inflating clicks from advertisers that are willing to pay, why do you need adsense? Just remove adsense during happy click hour, and then when that money runs dry, run adsense again.

[dzcap]

That page has a horrible CTR for adsense, so why not utilize the page for something else?

[asp4bunnies]

I was kicked out of Adsense for doing the exact same thing. Users made mistakes and clicked adsense ads instead of just my own banners. Yes, I'm reinstated now. No, it wasn't worth it.

[AdSenseAdvisor]

dzcap -

Any language which might inadvertently encourage users to click on the ads appearing on your site is prohibited by the AdSense program. Therefore, although I understand your intent is to encourage users to click specifically on non-AdSense ads, it sounds like this language would conflict with AdSense program policies.

This policy helps protect advertisers from inflated costs. Protecting advertiser interests also benefits AdSense publishers, as clicks resulting from genuine user interest are more valuable to advertisers.

If you would like someone to personally review your site for compliance with this policy, I recommend emailing [e-mail].

Thank you for checking first!

-ASA

[desi_curry]

I have a site of a small town, and many people has shown interest to aid me if I develop the website further. If I write to click on some banner to aid my sites further development surely there will be a lot of users clicking my adverts. I can write the same on my home page where I havent kept the adsense anyways and surely the users carry that impression all through my site. Surely this will inflate the clicks and the CPC for advertisers will be down. I guess this shouldnt be allowed as if the advertisers wont benifit surely will we be not in long run.

[dzcap]

Since it is against TOS, I will not be following through with this idea.