Images, using a lightbox would it go against adsense TOS?

[Burto]

Something I have been trying to figure out. On my website each member can have up to 10 images. When viewing a profile you can select each different photo and we currently use javascript to display this in a small box so the page does not re-load.

I am curious for ideas, would we be better off having the images load on a different page? Giving more pages per visit in GA or would a lightbox type pop up be optimal. My concern is that the lightbox (similar to how Facebook displays images) would be a violation of google adsense TOS. I tried to talk with a help desk member from google regarding this but I am not even sure they could speak english to understand what I was saying.

What do you guys think? When it comes to handling groups of images how would you best display them for user happiness and search engine optimisation?

[FedeEinhorn]

None of the ways you decide to display the images will affect Google AdSense, unless you serve a page with a hundred ads and the image there, or if you did some kind of trick to "force" users to click on the ads.

That said, you need to think for the users, put yourself in your visitors' mind. What would be easier? faster? prettier? If you ask me I would definitely go with the lightbox to display image galleries.

It won't hurt you in front of Google eyes either, they are smart enough to interpret lightboxes just fine.

[Burto]

Thanks for that. I really appreciate your input.