Increase Your Website Traffic with Adwords – But not on Pop-Up Pages : Free Traffic Tips

I didn’t know you couldn’t use Adwords on sites that have opt-in email pop-ups. Apparently Adwords doesn’t like pop-ups no way, no how…. From the Inside Adwords blog:

According to the AdWords Editorial Guidelines, “We do not allow links to landing pages that generate pop-ups when users enter or leave your landing page. We consider a pop-up to be any window, regardless of content, that opens in addition to the original window.”

In other words, the guidelines refer not only to pop-ups, but also to pop-unders or any other new window which opens from your landing page. And, the policy applies regardless of the intent of the content. Even though the author of the above email has a pop-up intended to gather information rather than promote something, we do not make exceptions to these guidelines.

Check it: Inside AdWords: Why no pop-ups?

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Tinu Abayomi-Paul is the CEO of Leveraged Promotion, a member of the Network Solutions Social Web Advisory Board, and Editor of Women Grow Business. Her website promotion company specializes in reputation management, and building traffic systems for business. You can find her on Google+ and Twitter.

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Tinu

Short answer, I don't know, but it sounds that way.

Long answer:

From their t's and c's as far as I'm concerned, it's not clear. But if you read the post it sounds like that's what the guy who wrote them to complain was saying.

The terms and conditions say "any window" not "any browser window". Now as far as javascript, I think if it was user-initiated, that would be okay. I'm becoming very conscious of when I click on AdWords to find out if that interpretation is correct.

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Howard Young

Tinu, just for clarification, Google does not allow Aweber pop-in scripts or any use of javascript (e.g. AJAX) which would appear to the user as a new window even though technically not a new browser window. Is that a correct assumption?