ad sense questions

[slowhost]

hello all i`ve just got ad sense on my site really new to it all and was wondering if i can choose what sort of adds are put up or wether goole decides depending on the text on each page? also maybe a silly question but if i was to make up another site would i need to set up another add sense account for the seperate site or could i use the same account for both? thanks for any help

 

[accelerator]

hello all i`ve just got ad sense on my site really new to it all and was wondering if i can choose what sort of adds are put up or wether goole decides depending on the text on each page? also maybe a silly question but if i was to make up another site would i need to set up another add sense account for the seperate site or could i use the same account for both? thanks for any help

Google decides what adds are relevant to your site and displays those. I've never heard of being able to choose the ads, to the best of my knowledge you can't do it.

You can use the same AdSense account over multiple sites. If you want to custom track each site, that can be done through setting up channels in the config options - I used to do this but now I don't bother.

Rgds

 

[Juniper]

You cant choose specific ads to show on your site however, you can choose ads you may not wish to show. You are able to block ads you feel maybe counter productive to your own site i.e. your competitors etc.

You can either block the domain as a whole or just sub pages of the site should you wish, its known as the 'competitive ad filter'.

However be aware that in many cases you can actually end up blocking some of the highest paying ads on your site.

 

[slowhost]

thanks that was what im bothered about where will i find this blocker? is it in the adsense control panel? thanks again

 

[Juniper]

Yes in the Adsense set-up area:

AdSense Set-up >> Get Ads >> Competitive Ads Filter

Hope that helps

 

[stender]

I Have seen sites which seem to modify adsense. Having looked at the code of one it specified how many ads to show and even seemed to filter which categories. It used loads of javascript etc... and I wasn't sure how it worked but it wasn't straight forward adsense. I couldn't see it being anything offered by google.

small snippet of one file

/* GCA - google custom ads */
var global_google_ads = new Array;
var gca = new Object ;
gca.ad_classes = '' ;
gca.ad_set_classes = '' ;
gca.ad_set_box_classes = '' ;
gca.ad_width = 336 ;
gca.start_pos = 0 ;
gca.ad_style = 1 ;
function google_ad_request_done(google_ads) { // called by google syndication script include
if (google_ads.length == 0) {
return;
}
global_google_ads = google_ads;
return;
}
function gca_process_ad_unit(ad_index) {
var s = '' ;
switch(gca.ad_style) {
case 1 : // vertical -- case 2 to be horizontal
s +=
'<div style="width:' + gca.ad_width + 'px; ">' +
'<a href="' + global_google_ads.url + '" target="_blank">' +
global_google_ads.line1 +
'</a>' +
'<br/>' +
global_google_ads.line2 +
' ' +
global_google_ads.line3 +
'<br/>' +
'<a href="' + global_google_ads.url + '" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration:none; color:#666666; font-size:8pt; font-weight:normal;">' +
global_google_ads.visible_url +
'</span></a>' +
'</div>' +
'<br/>';

 

[itrends]

Some sites qualify with Google to be allowed to customise the code. Generally if they are very high traffic. This means they can apply custom tracking softwares, modify the JS and remove the "Ads by Google" stuff among other special customisations.

However, not getting the "ok" to do this before hand would possibly result in a suspended account as last time I checked Google do not allow you to modify the code as per their T&Cs for 'normal' users.

 

[itrends]

hello all i`ve just got ad sense on my site really new to it all and was wondering if i can choose what sort of adds are put up or wether goole decides depending on the text on each page? also maybe a silly question but if i was to make up another site would i need to set up another add sense account for the seperate site or could i use the same account for both? thanks for any help

Also, generally the key factors that decide the ads are the url (if it has keywords in) and the text surrounding the ads. Its a little more complicated as it takes into account the theme of the page, links etc but generally they are the main bits. Some people surround the ads with a few key phrases in a <noscript> tag as Google reads those in as surrounding words and it can help lean the content. Though perhaps not recommended as it may be seen as spam.