Click Soliciting Question

[Channel01]

Hi all,

Quick question....I know it's against Adsense's T&Cs to solicit clicks but would something as straightforward as this be disallowed:

Help us keep XYZ free. Please visit our sponsors:

Thanks.

[HuskyPup]

No, no, no, no, no...if you have to ask, you know it's no.

"Sponsored Links" or "Advertisements" is allowed.

[piatkow]

I explicitly request visitors to support the site by making their next Amazon purchase through us but not a generic request to click.

[tristanperry]

Nope, click fraud is one of those pesky things that the AdSense team frown upon ;-)

(In other words, you'll get banned - and, being grumpy ;-), rightfully so as you'd be cheating advertisers out of their money as the visitors coming their way would have no genuine interest in placing a purchase)

[ember]

Bad, bad idea.

[farmboy]

I explicitly request visitors to support the site by making their next Amazon purchase through us but not a generic request to click.

With some of the legislation that's floating around, that's not a bad idea if you're a commissioned affiliate of a site such as Amazon.

But as things stand now, AdSense is a different beast.


FarmBoy

[Jaideemaak]

I explicitly request visitors to support the site by making their next Amazon purchase through us.

Apples and oranges. A click doesn't cost Amazon anything until someone actually buys something, and then - when/if they do - it's just commission on a sale. It's very different to Adsense where advertisers pay simply for someone clicking through to their site without necessarily spending any money.

As everyone else has said, this would be a very bad idea and I guess it would get you thrown out of the programme pretty quickly.

[piatkow]

With some of the legislation that's floating around, that's not a bad idea if you're a commissioned affiliate of a site such as Amazon.

@Farmboy - what legislation?

Apples and oranges.

Exactly, if you have the sort of customer who wants to do something to actively support the site then encourage them to use your link to a pay per action scheme that they would probably use anyway.

[netmeg]

He probably means the FTC. If you're doing affiliate stuff, best to have a disclosure policy.

[dibbern2]

quick question, quick answer. suicide.

[piatkow]

He probably means the FTC.

Now that's the problem with advice given here, to paraphrase the 37th Article of Religion "The Federal Trade Commission hath no jurisdiction in this realm of England"