Adsense in iframes

Will adsense understand site source

[poodwaddle]

I am researching a site idea, a site that will dynamically display other sites (using javascript) in an iframe. However, I dont want to screw up my own or the adsense ads of other sites. Will adsense know that the ads on the iframe pages are not part of my site? Will the iframe pages receive their credit for clicks? And will adsense figure my site is screwing with other sites codes and close my account?
Understand, I'm not talking about placing my own ads in iframes. My ads will be displayed in a dynamically placed floating frame over the page. I am concerned about how adsense will interpret the third party page within an iframe.

[poodwaddle]

As I research this further it appears that this sort of framing is concidered "hijacking". Is there any way to display the site without affecting their adsense? The site I have in mind would be a great service but I would certainly not pursue it if it negatively affects other sites profits.

[londrum]

i would steer clear of this idea. framing other people's sites is a big no-no, especially when you're making money off the back of them with your own ads. you'll just annoy people. it's easy enough for sites to break out of frames anyway, it's just a few lines of javascript.

you might be alright if you just display a screenshot of the site, but if the site is clickable and working inside your frame then you'll start getting into trouble.

and you seem to be saying that your ads will appear in another window (or in a window-like thing) above the content - like a pop-up. it doesn't matter if it's a real pop-up or not - if it acts like a popup then i think it's against google's terms of service.

you'd also have to be pretty sure which sites you're framing, because google bans ads from appearing on pages with certain kinds of content.

[poodwaddle]

Excellent points.
The site I had in mind would have been a postit type of service with floating/dragable windows over top of the iframe content. People would have been able to comment any section of any page simply by placing sticky notes wherever they wished. I got as far as developing the dragging div tag containing a flash app that communicates with Javascript to position it about the screen. Now this little technology has no home. Bummer. Its a beautiful idea and performs quite well. Oh well.
I imagine it would be no time before someone commented a porn site and Google banned me for it. Anyway thanks for the feedback

[londrum]

maybe you could do something with google maps instead. sounds like it would compliment it quite well. you could frame a map of wherever they want and allow them to pin stuff to it with pictures or comments or whatever.

[poodwaddle]

Awesome idea. Now you got me thinking. Thanks.

[Quadrille]

Context-specific Adsense in an iframe will probably fail, unless there is content within the frame to give the context that Adsense requires.

The TOS might not be a problem if all the sites in this weird set-up are yours ... but you are risking your account if this infringes someone elses account / site.

But your best bet is to reread the TOS and consider exactly how it applies in your case.

Personally, I'd think carefully about what you actually hope to achieve by this ... then find a more elegant way to do it. I can't see the logic, and I suspect it's an accident waiting to happen.

But I could very easily be very wrong ;)

[jacksenser]

don't worry about it, technically adsense know that the iframe pages are part of your site from their javascript calling code,but you would never be affected for this. Google would not close your account.

[sastro]

Use a script to recognize adsense bot User Agent mediapartner or something (look at web log). If visitor is adsense bot then remove the iframe.