Getting Good Ads on Your Site, Fast

One Way to do It

[jimh009]

I was developing some pages tonight to add into my site. As part of the design, a few of these pages would feature some Google Ads in my typical 160x600 tower formation. The pages are .shtml pages designed in dreamweaver on my local machine and then uploaded to the server. In other words, things are done the old fashioned way.

As part of the creation of the pages, I frequently launch the pages from my local machine to test out the links, see how the pages looks, etc..., before uploading the final product to the web server.

Well, normally once a page is uploaded to the server, the mediabot will come around and find the page once the page has been viewed (I always view my new pages just for this reason once they are up) - usually serving up some relevant ads in about an hour or two.

What was interesting and what some of you might find of interest is that it seems the little mediabot can read the html right off your own local box - it doesn't need to wait for the page to be uploaded to the web server. The reason I discovered this is that once I uploaded the new pages tonight I immediately viewed them. And much to my surprise, on the absolute first view of these pages and less than 20 seconds after they were uploaded, these pages were serving absolutely perfect ads. Moreover, these pages were a completely new theme for my site - Adsense didn't just fall back on the general theme for my site (which I've seen happen alot when the bot doesn't know what to serve right away).

Needless to say, I've never seen this happen before so thought it was kind of interesting that AdSense can read the pages you are designing off you local box, figure out the content of it before those pages have gone live, and then serve perfectly relevant ads once the pages are uploaded.

In any event, kind of a neat trick to make sure you are serving relevant ads when you first launch a new page - especially if it is on a "new or different theme."

While this little trick won't work for a dynamic site, it seems to work very well if you design stuff the old and slow way like I do. :)

Just thought I would pass it on.

Edited for spelling

Jim

[madmatt69]

Happens for me frequently - I think it's got to do with having the toolbar installed.

[jimmyboy]

Nothing very mysterious or technical in Google adsense ads showing when you prepare a new page and the page is still in your 'box'. It is really very simple -
When you load the page in your local box using any HTML/PHP editor or browser, the adsense javascipt automatically connects to the google server and server sends an ad. Google server does not differentiate whether, you are loading a page from local machine or from a website server. It gets a packet from a particular IP, in this case your 'local box' IP and replies by sending packets that show ads on your local box. Use any packet interceptor or firewall and you can see the transfer of packets between 'local box' and google server while you are still testing your pages. Each time you load a page in your HTML/PHP editor or browser and page java script connects to google it actually counts as a page view ;).
P.S forgot to add - 'tool bar or no tool bar' it should not effect javascript connecting to google server from your local box and google serving ads to pages on your local box
But don't worry google is not taking any other information from your 'local box'. It uses just the normal HTTP and port 80 (usually) to read the javascript from your test page. So sleep well; google is not spying on your machine when you test your pages on your ‘ local box’.
I said simple in beginning of this post but took a so much of time and space to explain. Some times simple things are difficult to explain ;) lol