Adsense ads in a page with lightbox?

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Adsense ads in a page with lightbox?

Aweber has a lightbox subscriber page... is that legal?

mertero

12:12 pm on Apr 12, 2010 (gmt 0)

Hi guys.

I have a blog with adsense. I also have a newsletter.

I've seen many sites use the lightbox "popup" from aweber. This means that after a few seconds, you'll get a popup asking you to subscribe to the newsletter. It's not a real-popup (they use javascript), but it "hides" all the page with a gray 'curtain'.

Is that legal with AdSense? I know that

"Google Ads May not be Obscured by elements on a page. "

But this is used by so many publishers. The ads are obscured, until the user closes the lightbox. I can't see how this can be bad for the AdSense Ads, it certainly won't make people click by mistake or something. But it's a big risk to take unless I know for sure...

pavlovapete

1:23 am on Apr 13, 2010 (gmt 0)

Email Google, tell them what you are considering and see what they say.

You can't encourage people to click on the ad. I don't know if this rule applies in your scenario.

Cheers

mertero

6:35 am on Apr 13, 2010 (gmt 0)

Thanks. I sent an e-mail to Google... I hope they'll answer.

I've been this in tons of site... including very large ones.

I can't see how this can encourage clicks (you can't even click when the gray "curtain" is on). But I don't want to risk my AdSense account of course ;-)

Ron

pavlovapete

6:55 am on Apr 13, 2010 (gmt 0)

Oh sorry Ron,

I misunderstood your question. I thought you meant put Adsense in front of "the curtain"!

OK I see - emailing Google is probably still the best thing to do just to be safe.

Cheers.

mertero

7:12 am on Apr 13, 2010 (gmt 0)

Ah, no.. I'm certainly not drawing attention to the ads... quite the contrary...

I hope Google answers, I'll post more on this if I can ;-)

Ron