Interstitial webpage

On the World Wide Web, interstitials are web pages displayed before or after an expected content page, often to display advertisements or confirm the user's age (prior to showing age-restricted material). Most interstitial advertisements are delivered by an ad server.

People take issue with the use of such pages to present online advertising before allowing users to see the content they were trying to access.[1] The only user-friendly use of an interstitial web page is as a disambiguation page.

Meaning of interstitial

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In this context, interstitial is used in the sense of “in between”. The interstitial web page sits between a referenced page and the page which references it—hence it is in between two pages. This is distinct from a page which simply links directly to another, in that the interstitial page serves only to provide extra information to a user during the act of navigating from one page to the next.

In digital marketing, the term “interstitial” is often used in the sense of “interstitial advertising”, rather than “interstitial webpage”. In some cases, this may lead to confusion because interstitial ads are not always served on interstitial webpages. According to a standard advanced by the IAB, an interstitial (also known as a between-the-page ad) can either be displayed on a separate webpage, or appear briefly as an overlay on the target page.[2] Moreover, mobile advertising guidelines created by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) include in-app interstitial ads, that are integrated into applications, rather than web pages.[3]

In 2015 a Google representative stated that he would like to make interstitials a negative ranking factor in Google Search.[4]

Circumvention

Many interstitial pages are circumvented by NoScript and AdBlock.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Archived March 26, 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "IAB Display Advertising Guidelines". Iab.net. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
  3. ↑ "Mobile aDvertising Guidelines : Version 5.0" (PDF). Mmaglobal.com\accessdate=2015-07-27.
  4. ↑ "Google: I'd Love To Make Interstitials A Negative SEO Ranking Factor". Retrieved 2015-08-17.


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