Can I make a link accessible only after someone clicks on an ad?

[collegeguy]

This is my first post on Webmaster World. Seems like alot of you know what your talking about so...

Does anyone here know how I can make a link on my site accessable only after someone has clicked on an ad? I need to start raising some revenue to keep the site up and running.

Help is appreciated..

[rocknbil]

Welcome aboard collegeguy! There are a couple things wrong with your logic though.

For one, once someone clicks an ad they are off to another site. So what they remember of your site is there was nothing there but ads!

For another, you don't make money on adSense just be getting people to click. You make money by having LOTS of people come to your site, and eventually a portion of them click your ads. The way you do that is build good content with many reasons for your visitors to dig through your pages.

That being said, while there may be ways to do this, most of it would involve interefering with an adSense link, and they don't like that one bit. Great way to get your adSense account closed. :-0

Everyone wants revenue. Have you got something new and interesting to say? Start with a subscription newsletter maybe?

[collegeguy]

thanks for the suggestions.
unfortunately the site that im trying to build requires that it know whether the user has clicked on the ad yet. I've seen a forum somewhere that worked like this, where you had to click on three ads before being taken to the content.

im just hoping that theres a way to do this without finding someone to write a java sscript, although there might already be one out there that does this... just wondering if anyone here has any leads.

thanks@

[piatkow]

That would get you banned if you were using adsense. I don't think other advertisers would be too happy either.

[cmarshall]

where you had to click on three ads before being taken to the content.

Eeew...that site would not rank high in my bookmarks unless it had some serious heroin content [webpagesthatsuck.com].

[rocknbil]

im just hoping that theres a way to do this without finding someone to write a java sscript,

Well, you are probably gathering this is a "bad idea" and if you saw a site that required clicks before links, it was probably a site in which the visitors were highly motivated to get at the links. Again, rich content drove the visitors.

But if you insist on this, I would suggest it not be done with Javascript but with some server-side programming of some sort. But sorry, not aware of anything that would do this. Maybe examine your sample site and see what they are doing.