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What's the best way to let the mediapartners bot and Adsense generally deal with this? It would be possible to return exactly the same content to the bot to provide heavily/properly customised ad content to the end user, and i'm sure that would be entirely appropraite under the T&Cs, etc.
However, is it possible to let the bot just receive a generic account restricted page (ie, what anyone would see if they tried to look at someone else's inbox), or otherwise not return the exact content that the end user is seeing, and let the Adsense system return generic content for the site?
I was sure attempting to do such a thing was considered a really really bad thing by Google HQ, but I can't find anything about it in the Adsense help, etc., at the moment. But I must be looking in the wrong place.
Any pointers appreciated. I'll be mailing this as a question to Adsense support, but thought I might get some useful info here more quickly, particularly being in the middle of the festive season.
Thanks.
Are you considering running Adsense in the same way that Gmail serves up ads to the user?
It usually take Adsense a couple of days to respond however I guess they may be wondering what it is you're suggesting therefore it may be wise to clarify your idea.
I would assume that if you're looking at the Gmail concept then it would not ostensibly be any different to forum ads being served?
As an example, imagine you have a forum, and the users can track their favourite threads. There is also a page that displays that list of favourite threads to that user.
If User A is interested in food topics, their favourite topics page will list lots of things to do with food. User B likes cars, so their page lists car topics.
If the favourite topics page is at http://www.example.com/my_topics when the mediapartners bot tries to access that page, they wont get the content that is personalised for each user. Instead, they'll probably just get a page saying "You need to login!".
So, is returning that "You need to login!" page to the mediapartners bot a bad thing?
Or should I change the backend of my site to allow mediapartners to see the page personalised for that user?
Or should I not display Adsense ads on any pages where the content that the bot sees is not exactly the same as what the user sees?
OK, I understand now.
I had a similar situation recently with my forum and log-in page etc and to get the definitve answer I wrote to Google with the proposed page URL etc for the approval or denial.
A couple of days later I received a positive response.
I suggest you create a test page with your idea and submit it to them so that they can see precisely your concept.
Good luck.
