Is this allowed?

http://www.arcadesmack.com/ When you click on a game there is a 5 second period to click on ads before the game starts. The user is in no way forced to click the ads. Will google/yahoo ban me for somthing like this?

 

To be honest go and ask Google and keep yourself safe. Nobody here can give you the red/green light.

 

I think this should be okay because the ads aren't appearing on a pop-up. As turfsniffer says, best ask the Google people to be extra sure.

 

i'm not an expert, but using common sense, its in the line of ban, IMHO.

 

It might be ok, but ask google first. Also i think by doing that you wont really get many clicks and your CTR will just go down because of so many impressions without a click. 5 seconds is very fast, i didnt even get a chance to read the ad before it changed.

 

Clever but I would agree with scubita - likely not to be smiled upon by the folks who matter.

 

I am not sure but Google TOS says:

"No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant."

It is better to ask google

 

I have seen in website "Super Robot War" ... They use YAHOO ...

but it does not ban ....

 

I have done this to my site before (I dont anymore) but when i did do it I didnt think it was against TOS but the above phrase says otherwise. I dont know youd have to ask google to get a 100% definite answer.

Now that I think about it I think they would say no.

 

Contacted yahoo they said it's against TOS.