Do any of you have any experience with having AdBrite Interstitials on your website and it's subsequent effects on your SEO efforts? By replacing the intended landing page via JavaScript with a 'doorway' ad I though this could be very tricky for El Google and compadres. Any experience, ideas or feedback on this?
Thats a good question T0PS I assume your wondering how that redirect is working. Does google bot get redirected as well? If so it would be bad for SEO. Thats nice of Adbrite to give such a clear response to your question. NOT! Perhaps you should re-phrase your question. Seems they did not understand it.
good question indeed. I posted the same query to adbrite when they first launched interstitials but got a similar canned reply. would be interested in its answer.
I'm hoping they track bot activity by IP and UA so that would not show in any 3d party deals but it's a good idea in principle so I'll try it, thanks Sohan.
Hey Everyone, Would love to help answer the question but I am not sure exactly what you mean with the effect on SEO. Please shoot me an email, and I will get a detailed response and post it. Cheers, Chris
I think it would benefit the masses if it was answered publicly. Winnie is on to my email. The problem is this. Before adding AB Interstitials: Google follows link from xyz.com to mysite.com and actually gets there. After adding AB Interstitials: Google follows link from xyz.com to mysite.com but gets intercepted by AdBrite making Googlebot think "Hey WTF is going here? This is not what I found last time, the landing page changed to something unrelated to this link so I'm going to dump this page/site out of the index or not make it rank for this phrase". That's what we're scared of.
It is my understanding that most bots ignore javascript. That said, most of these ad codes run as javascript. In theory they should not effect search bots. In reality they are probably annoying to most users.... So I hope they are paying you well for showing them! =)
Ok Working on an answer, but i think this might help. Our interstitial serves through the javascript on the 3-5th pageview typically and then allows you to continue on to the site you were currently on. our text ads, interstitials, and banners redirect through adbrite, so there is no PR transfer. I would think the interstitials have nothing to do with transferring PR either, and won't do that since they are redirected. A google bot would just see the AdBrite javascript and isn't going to know the different of whether an ad is served or not from the javascript at that moment. I am hoping to make a clearer answer, but let me know if that helps? Thanks, Chris
That's a good start Chris, thanks. Could you post a few links of publishers currently showing interstitials so we can crunch our own research on the possible effects? If it's definitely not on the first impression, that's a good sign.
if you go to adbrite.com, and click on the interstitial tab, you will see thousands of site running them. That will give a good idea. For those of you not completely familiar with the ad unit here is what would show (typically 3-5clicks through your site) (keep in mind this is just a sample) http://tinyurl.com/y2dbrz Keep in mind that is a unique hit on the advertisers site. Thanks, Chris