Forced Ad Clicking

[aloha]

I am wondering. Seeing that many of our communities are member supported, how many people actually click on our sponsers. Many of us get little to no donations so we hope that people at least help us out by clicking our sponsers.

For instance, I have google ads. Its a great program, but noone clicks on it? WTF... its annoying!

I was wondering, how hard would it be to implement a hack that would force them to click on the ad, it pop up in a new window, dhtml style, for a few seconds and it disappear after it is registered into googles ad system.

Now lets say for instance, someone has X amount of posts or X amount of points, lets take away the force ad clicking on them.

Let's say, that we forced them to click on the ad before posting a reply. And then on the top of that DHTML pop up, it said, ADS WILL DISAPPEAR AFTER X amount of POSTS or X amount of CLICKS. Keeping track of their clicking by user name.

I mean, some of us love our sites but do we really have to bear the cost alone? Is this hack possible? Am I the only one that may see the necessity behind this?

I think there are many different things you can do to it to make it less annoying. Make it for X GROUP, or for guests only, so that they have to click on the ad before viewing a post. Maybe before downloading they have to click on an ad.

What do you guys think? Just wondering, because I think I'm heading in that direction!

[flat6]

Don't all ad companies explicitly and strictly prohibit this?

[SVTBlackLight01]

Originally Posted by flat6

Don't all ad companies explicitly and strictly prohibit this?

Yes, and I can't think think of a better way to drive away users.

[Zachery]

Forcing members to Click Google ads will have your Adsensne program revoked asap

[Q-v-n-s-Q]

you can put ur google ads in attachment, when peoples download an attachment they need to click on ads to download

[Zachery]

Forcing members to Click Google ads will have your Adsensne program revoked asap

[kall]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Forcing members to Click Google ads will have your Adsense program revoked asap

Exactly.

*quotes message for further effect*

Also, it will drive any other potential advertisers away from your site in droves. Why should they pay you to advertise their products/services when all your members are doing is clicking them in order to do stuff on your forums?

[Q-v-n-s-Q]

Originally Posted by kall

Exactly.

*quotes message for further effect*

Also, it will drive any other potential advertisers away from your site in droves. Why should they pay you to advertise their products/services when all your members are doing is clicking them in order to do stuff on your forums?

Cuz the google ads system cost per click from other company's ads too