[CityCM]

I have developed a website for an online alcohol shop and we are having problems with getting the site approved by Google Adwords due to the sale of 'hard alcohol'.

Google are insisting that we have an age gate on the website where customers have to click to accept the websites terms and conditions and confirm they're over 18, however, we feel this would make any SEO extremely difficult to achieve.

Can anyone offer any advice on how we can achieve this without losing out on SEO potential?

[asek]

This came up in a Google search. It should be accepted if you put into place a JS age gate.

http://www.seroundta...ves/018520.html

[CityCM]

asek, on 10 August 2011 - 03:37 PM, said:

This came up in a Google search. It should be accepted if you put into place a JS age gate.

http://www.seroundta...ves/018520.html

Thanks asek, gave you a +1 for that... very useful to know...however, the bit that concerns me is it says 'GoogleBot will simply bypass that page'. Does that mean the page that has the javascript will be completely ignored?

This post has been edited by CityCM: 10 August 2011 - 03:42 PM

[asek]

Thanks,

I think what the guy is saying is design your page normally so the homepage would still be your normal homepage. Then with JavaScript hide the contents and place the ad gate text/verification on top. If they are verified then just set a cookie to save the selection and unhide the content or if they fail redirect to a failure page.

The Googlebot and most search engines do not have JS so they wouldn't trigger the age gate and would see the normal page.

I've never done this before so I wouldn't know for sure if this would pass the Google standards but it seems to be the only way to do it.