Adfly/Linkbucks Traffic with Adsense

Google Adsense is one of the strictest advertising companies around, but also one of the highest-paying. You can't cheat google, they are the boss, as they hold the cash.

I have a concern, involving link-shortening services such as Adf.ly and Linkbucks. These services allow users to shorten long links into short links, while forcing visitors to wait a few seconds and watch an ad during every transition.

The users get paid a small amount for each transition.

As a website owner, you are able to advertise your own websites services during these transitions, for a very low price (Incredible deals such as $1 for 1000 ad views)

Would this be OK with Adsense? I know they detest PTC traffic but this isn't PTC. It's one of the terms in the gray area.

 

It would be best to ask Google but I don't see how this could harm anything with Adsense.

 

Wouldn't these fall in the same category of Kontera/Vibrant media ads?

 

I'm not sure, I've never used either of these.. and I thought the adfly one was for something on Twitter, maybe that's a similar service?

 

You might want to be careful using these regardless of Google.

Recently adblock updated their programming so that now when your visitors are at whatever adf.ly or linkbucks page, instead of showing the ad, it shows a blank white page and you don't get paid for the traffic of it.