problem with setting up adsense

[on way to fame]

Hi,
i recently got approved by the google adsense program, and although i am no programming expert i know a little. so i added the code to the three main files, viewforum_body.tpl, viewtopic_body.tpl and index_body.tpl , now here's the situation, the ads r showing correctly on the index page, on the viewforum_body page i tried to put the code at diff. places but its still showing an error and on the viewtopic pages there is an extremely interesting situation, its showing ads on some topics whereas on most of them its showing an error...the site is located at <snip>

can anyone tell me what could be the reason for this? or can anyone who is using google adsense show me how they have pasted the code ( they may remove their id part the code). anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.

[edited by: Jenstar at 2:42 pm (utc) on July 8, 2004]
[edit reason] No URLS as per TOS, please! [/edit]

[arrowman]

so i added the code to the three main files, viewforum_body.tpl, viewtopic_body.tpl and index_body.tpl

This doesn't tell us much, as we don't know what is going on on your server. You haven't even mentioned a programming language.

All that matters is the generated HTML.

its still showing an error

It? An error? Telepathy?

can anyone tell me what could be the reason for this?

There's an error in your code, that causes it to report an error message.

or can anyone who is using google adsense show me how they have pasted the code ( they may remove their id part the code).

Just copy & paste. Couldn't be any easier.

[Jenstar]

If you go to the support site for your forum software, you will likely find support for adding AdSense to the forums. If it is phpbb, they have quite a lot of help on it, and I also believe a hack available.

[on way to fame]

thanks for the help.
the problem is sorted now, the error msg was being displayed when no ads were available, it wasn;'t showing the other banner i had set up, but when i allowed public service ads it worked, has anyone faced this problem before?

[richmondsteve]

on way to fame, did you enter a relative URL or absolute URL for the alternate ad? It must be an absolute URL. Please verify that it is and that the URL exists.

[on way to fame]

sorry if its a leame questions, but i guess an absolute url is the one where the url is given directly, for eg. www . ____ .com , whereas in a relative one we use a text link, for eg. check this out ..i may well be wrong....but if i am right, i used an absolute url......so please correct me?

[rish]

it needs to be absolute starting with http://
eg. [example.com...]

[on way to fame]

thanks.
that was exactly what i tried but anyways i will retry.