Google TOS

Disable the back button.

[flaxmac]

Is it against the google TOS to disable the back button? What are your views. I have a site that will only be viewed once and only one page per visit, because I dont put any nav on the screens, I am just bringing people there giving the information they are looking for and then hoping they will click on a google add.
My thinking is that if I disable the back button its one less click that people can leave my site by.

[flaxmac]

Wish I had a page selling soap boxes, I would put adsense on it, and not even worry about disabling anything, cause I think the ctr would be high enough anyway.
Thanks everyone I think thats enough from me on this thread.

[jenkers]

hello again,
there are ways of maximising CTR without resorting to actions that are against TOS.

You can still put adsense on pages and make the ads prominent and then have minimal naviation on that page - i.e. have your adsense ads on the deepest level with only one link out to your main nav/or subject hub page, or links within a hub all on different aspects of the same area. That is certainly not against TOS. You can make sure that you have no links to external sites from your pages with Adsense on, and make sure that those pages are extremely focussed on the keywords that you want.

But, I guess you probably know all this anyway.

I KNOW it is possible to get 20-40% CTR on a page consistenly without breaking any of the TOS and without completely destroying the end-user experience.

Think within the TOS (there's not much point otherwise).

[robsynnott]

It will make your users hate you, and quite rightly too. I don't know if Google ban it; they certainly should.

[imstillatwork]

javascript should ban it. There is no reason to ever disable the back button, or right click for that matter.