Does increasing traffic by popup under violate Google TOS?

Hi all,

I have 3 sites, with names as siteA, siteB and siteC.

On siteA and siteB, I didn't place Adsense code but I put some text links to redirect visitor to siteC when visitor click on these text links.

On siteC I placed some Adsense ads.

For increasing traffic of siteA and siteB, I make a small piece of JavaScript code to do this thing:
- when visitor click on a <a> tag of siteA to navigate a link, I also open siteB in a popup window.
- In siteB, I also add this piece of code to redirect to siteA.

The source coe like this:

if(document.cookie.indexOf("ispopupexisted") == -1)
{
document.cookie = "popunder=siteA";
var w = window.open("http://siteA.com",'Name of siteA', params);
}

But I don't know:

1. this way violate Google Adsense TOS or not?
2. any harmful with my SEO?

Thanks in advance.

 

Violate What?? Google Adsense?
Yep

 

Yes, I have talk in my post.

First question: I don't know it violates Google Adsense TOS or not?
Second question: is it harmful for my SEO?

 

POPup is harmful for both, Adsense and SEO
So better try to avoid it, It usually help you in sales etc and other things..

 

Thanks mgn465 for your quick reply.

But could you tell me more detail about this? Why do you know it's harmful? Or did you experience?

 

I know of large webmaster that does this for quite some time already. He still has his ads on, so I am not sure if that's not allowed. But I would suggest you read Adsense TOS yourself. This might be seen as generating false impressions since the user did not actually want to go on your page, he was forced by a pop under.

 

well there is nothing about knowing According to google, Any way to force the users to visit your site is forbidden! Whether you use Autosurf or Popupz, all are same, in a way

And yeah, One of my cousin got permanently banned from Adsense just because of this..and Furthermore regarding google as search...Spider will face popupz and again it'll be a problem for you...So better avoid it)

 

People hate pop ups. Even if it was allowed, you would still affect your traffic because people don't like pop ups. It specifically says in Adsense tos no pop ups, unders, whatever are allowed.

 

Uhm ... maybe it's a bad idea to increase traffic.

I just think to get more traffic with popup under.

To Lex350: I don't think all people hate popup. They hate useless popup only.