Note above ads to...

request them to hold shift before clicking

[DiGiTaLeX]

I have this above the ads at the bottom of my page:

Please bookmark us or hold shift when clicking on the ad link to open a new window.

This is a plea to keep users on the site in case their interest wanders to the unintrusive ads at the bottom of the page.

Is it allowed? Its not asking to click the links but rather if they do, to do it in a certain way..

Also, anyone know the average time it takes for the australian web publisher to receive an adsense check.

Thanks in advance for your correspondence,
Alex

[freeflight2]

of course that's not allowed...

[ganderla]

I suspect since you are not following the TOS for AdSense, you will be booted and then come back here saying "why did I get booted"

[DiGiTaLeX]

I am following the Adsense TOS, however you think I am not. Why is this?

[DiGiTaLeX]

After reviewing their policy it seems that it has changed to say "Clicks on Google ads must not result in a new browser window being launched." Which means I will remove the "hold shift" but I can leave the "bookmark us before leaving" notice... Is that alright?

[europeforvisitors]

It would be unwise to write anything about the ads without the express permission of AdSense Support.

[Jenstar]

You are also drawing attention to the ads, which is clearly not allowed.

[DiGiTaLeX]

Well that may be how you see it but as you "believe" and I'll have to take your word for it that I am drawing attention to the ads, then I'll remove that right away.

Thank you for your comments everyone. I would rather be told sternly by you guys then to have my account dropped.
:-)

[PCInk]

Why would you want them to hold shift anyway? In some browsers that opens a save dialogue box which downloads and saves the destination page - charging the advertiser in the process.

For that very reason, Google should drop your AdSense. I would remove that line immediately and forget about ever putting that line back on the site.

[DiGiTaLeX]

>>Why would you want them to hold shift anyway?
So that they can view the target website in a new window.
>>In some browsers that opens a save dialogue box which >>downloads and saves the destination page - charging the >>advertiser in the process.
Really? Please list those browsers because in all browser I know, holding shift while clicking a link opens a new window. Its an Internet Explorer standard and has been for years.

>>For that very reason, Google should drop your AdSense.
You have provided false reasoning so I strongly disagree with the above comment.

>>I would remove that line immediately and forget about >>ever putting that line back on the site.
As mentioned in my previous post, I have already taken advice, and your immature post was not helpful, nor polite. In fact it was plain old trolling. I hope it makes you feel good because as a Senior Member of this board, you would usually be respected as a helpful contributor.

[PCInk]

> You have provided false reasoning
Try Netscape

And try reading TOS point 4.

[erhnam]

>>Really? Please list those browsers because in all browser I know, holding shift while clicking a link opens a new window. Its an Internet Explorer standard and has been for years.

ouch! Do you think you should use IE as a reference to standards?

[Macro]

erhnam, welcome to WW. Irrespective of standards elsewhere MS is perfectly entitled to have their own internal standards for IE. We can disagree on whether those standards are any good but we can't say that they don't exist (unless we have some inside info from MS) :). But that is off topic, sorry. Let the discussion continue.

DiGiTaLeX, I'd do what you did. Playing safe rather than sorry is not a bad thing :). I agree with PCInk's advice on that.

[kempozone]

hold shift when clicking on the ad link to open a new window

These kinds of comments cracks me up.

kz

[FromRocky]

After reviewing their policy it seems that it has changed to say "Clicks on Google ads must not result in a new browser window being launched." Which means I will remove the "hold shift" but I can leave the "bookmark us before leaving" notice... Is that alright?

Yes, that will be alright.

[DiGiTaLeX]

Its good to see some sensible advice once in a while without witty "half-smart" comments from others..

Thans again everyone, problem solved :-)