Is anyone else having similar issues with Google?
I received an "Abusive experience status: Failing" report in December I tried to fix it but ended up just removing popups for a few weeks (I could not figure out what they wanted it was very unclear), then 3 weeks after I enabled them again I got another report.
Quote:
Misleading Site Behavior
Page features such as scroll bars, play buttons, “next” arrows, close buttons, or navigation links that lead to an ad or landing page when clicked.
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I had no ads on scrollbars, play buttons, next arrows, close or navigation links, the recorded video shows them clicking on a thumbnail which opens a popup (+ the page of the thumbnail).
It looks like they are targeting popups in general, you can also report sites to them and one of the options is just "popup".
I was following all the common rules:
- 1 popup per 24 hours
- attached to click event (not on navigation links, or on white space, or automatically after a timer)
- skip the first x clicks
- contents of the popups had all the "bad" ads disabled. (virus warnings etc etc, "google safe")
- I tested both tabup and tabunder
Whatever I tried they return with status failing. I talked to a few ad networks and they told me other publishers are reporting the same issues and are switching to interstitials.
Is this the for popups? (on Chrome)