Google Adsense in Under Maintenance Page, allowed?

[hp_solomon]

My site is under maintenance displaying an announcement:

"We are upgrading the server and www.mysite.com will be back online in few hours .. sorry for the inconvenience ..."

Is it allowed to put adsense in this page? Anyone?

Thanks

[zett]

Almost certainly not allowed. From the Adsense Help Center:

Ad Placement
AdSense offers a number of ad formats and advertising products. Publishers are encouraged to experiment with a variety of placements, provided the following policies are respected:

[...]
No Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages.
[...]

I'd not show ads, update my site asap and then display Adsense again after the update.

[eddy22]

What about a new site with 1 or 2 pages?

[jomaxx]

Nothing wrong with putting AdSense on a new site. Nothing wrong with putting it on a small site.

But if your page has a lack of outbound links, that likely IS a problem. As has been noted here about a million times, any gimmicks designed to force or to strongly encourage users to click the ads will get you severely smart priced, if not banned.

[encyclo]

What you are describing could well be construed as an error message, and as such it would violate the AdSense terms and conditions. "5. Prohibited Uses. [google.com] (...) on any error page".

As always, asking Google is the only way of getting a definitive answer.