Your Adsense not showing in IE6

Is it an IE6 Bug? A Adsense Cookie? or just me?

[kzapkzap]

I've noticed sometimes my site's adsense disappears for me in IE6, but works fine for others. Why? This never happened before the Oct 2 Update. Any ideas? My javascript is on. Anyone else getting similar disppearings?

[Blue_Fin]

(Which is confusing as obviously some of my visitors must be seeing blank space where ads should be)

Actually, they would not be seeing blank space on your site. I just took a look at your layout and your text would just compensate for the space if the skyscraper was not being displayed. That's how it has been on every site I have seen (3 or 4 of them, including mine) when the glitch was occurring.

As I said previously, your stats would not be indicative of this happening since it's occurring so infrequently.

[Macro]

As I said previously, your stats would not be indicative of this happening since it's occurring so infrequently

Possibly.

I just took a look at your layout and your text would just compensate for the space if the skyscraper was not being displayed

It's not designed to. Fixed table widths and all that.

[jrstark]

It is happening in IE 5.5 for me and for one other person I have checked with.

I updated my 5.5 and the ads started showing, but then the next time I checked (a while later) they weren't again.

Never had a problem in Mozilla, which is what I normally use.

I have no adblockers installed, just popup stoppers: built-in in Mozilla and googlebar in IE.

[kwasher]

Just checked again this morning, and adsense is still causing every page with adsense on it to hang. Sigh. I expected psa's and maybe adsense itself not to work occassionally, after all, its a heavy duty app... but for it to make entire sites not work (hang) is something I certainly did not expected. I wonder if Google thought of this and have something in the tos about screwing up your site and loss of customers? I just hope they get it straigtened out. (Its ok in Netscape, not in IE6)

--Kenn (who thinks it too early here for reading TOSes and things of that sort)

[willybfriendly]

Just wanted to bump this up to see if anybody found a valid reason for what was happening. Is "Just flush your cache it will fix it instantly" still the official G response or was something else involved?

I am going to bump this again, since I note the same issue persists. Flushing the cache on IE6 does nothing. I am viewing this on a "neutral" system and connection, i.e. not my normal place of browsing...

WBF

[TravelMan]

15:13 hrs gmt gps locale 51.542020 -0.095933

Adsense ads didn't show in ie6.

Bizarre Bizarre Bizarre

Why?

[Macro]

It shows the first time I go to a page. Create a new page with adsense code on it and access it via IE and it works. Come back to it in a few seconds and Adsense seems to disappear.

Perhaps they are trying to reduce impressions made by webmasters on their own sites?

[beebware]

I'm getting the same thing - no ads in IE6, but showing up in Mozilla.

[Macro]

I thought this problem died.

But it seems to have started up today again.

[willybfriendly]

Macro - it never stopped from what I could make out. However, my revenue has actually increased, so it must be an intermittant problem. Perhaps related to some individual browser settings?

Be nice of Google would offer some insight.

WBF

[Macro]

I'm getting it on all my sites but not getting it on all other sites :-(

[bheybugarin]

I try to update my site and put the new code for with alternate ads. Im just wondering why I cannot preview the adsense advertisement in IE6 but I can preview it in Netscape 6.

Any solution to solve this problem?

[elord]

First of all, I had the same problem descripted in this thread (ads don't show up in IE6). Right after I uploaded the site with the adsense code I was able to view the adsense ads, but after I closed the page and revisited it I didn't see them at all.

I cache my dynamic sites every 24 hours, and I think that was the problem (I don't really know the actual reason), but after I altered my caching system, (adsense ads are not cached anymore), the problem haven't occured to me again. It is sure strange though, since the caching system should not interact with an external javascript.

Well, I have another problem now. When I add the code on an German Page I see mostly english ads, only a few are german ads. The ads are content-targeted. Now, there is a site on the internet where you can preview your adsense ads. Doing this, it shows exactly the german ads I actually expected showing up on my site. Well, while testing, I copied the adsense javascript code to my site (for test purpose only) and altered the google_language to de. After that, Google showed only German ads on my site. But I took it off, since the TOS don't really want you to alter their js code. Well, I emailed google about that problem, but I haven't gotten an answer so far.

Is anybody using adsense on a German Webpage? Does it work?

There is another question I wonder about. My ".com" site got approved successfully by google adsense. Can I now use the adsense code on my ".de" Seite, too? The ".de" site got the same topic as the ".com" site, it's just in German.

[elord]

Well, to kind of conclude my previous post, I just got a reply from google to the email mentioned above.
I re-added the adsense code to my German! Site. And everything works fine! Just as I expected or hoped to be. :-))
Now I got to wait to see how my statistics will look like. :-)

cya

[raja4]

Anyone found fix of this problem. I am having problems in IE 6. Netscape, Opera and Mozilla for last many days. I can see on 3 remaining computers but not on one computer. I could not figure out the way to fix the problem.

[Jenstar]

Could this [webmasterworld.com] be your problem? This is what is causing many not to show AdSense.

[JasonHamilton]

Hi guys,

since no one here has yet said it, I may as well:

MSIE6.0 has problems with javascript.

I've found from exhaustive testing that the javascript on MSIE doesn't always function when calling from a remote site.

For example, in a simple test.js, with one line that has a document.write(), it will randomly fail the first time the user loads a page (and sometimes even on subsequent loads).

The javascript call and the script itself is all perfectly valid. In fact, it works on mozilla, netscape, firebird, and opera just fine. Only IE shows the problem.

Considering there are many many bugs in IE that MS is aware of and does not fix, I wouldn't count on this being fixed anytime soon.

[johndetlefs]

Has there been any update to this issue?

I suscribed to AdSense about a week ago and the ads worked fine. Iv'e got ie6 and don't have norton or any other kind of ad blocker othere than the alexa and google toolbar, both of which have blocking turned off.

I've downloaded adaware and search and destroy and i've emptied the cache.

I saw the ads just fine for about 3 days and then bang! they're goooooooooone!

any ideas?

johndetelefs
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[edited by: Jenstar at 4:58 am (utc) on Jan. 31, 2004]
[edit reason] No URLs please, as per TOS [/edit]

[varya]

I don't have any idea why you can't see them, but I can see a leaderboard down at the bottom of the page. They're well-targeted, too.

BTW, you need to remove your url or a mod will remove it for you.

[edited by: varya at 6:14 am (utc) on Jan. 31, 2004]

[raja4]

I communicated with adsense technical support for many days. It's a known issue and they are aware of it. But looks like there is no fix of this so far.

You may try Opera or Netscape but my adsense did not work on any of the browser on my computer. Everyone else can them.

[johndetlefs]

as long as they are there I guess!

to the mod: sorry about the url!

Thanks for the reply

john detlefs

[TampaLou]

I'm glad to hear that Google is aware of the problem and working to fix it... It seems to come and go, but it is horribly frustrating.

[rbrusletto]

Has anybody heard anything more regarding this?

[Vespasian]

Not that any user in the real world will do this, but I made the adsense ads immediatley come back on my IE6 browser by going to:

Tools > Internet Options > Security > Internet > Custom Level - and then changing the security setting from "High" to "Medium", and then back to "High" again.

[annej]

"Just flush your cache it will fix it instantly. "
That's a high class stupid reply from Google. I don't want to see the ads! I want my visitors to see the ads!

Exactly! If google wants to make AdSense a success they had better solve the problem for everyone. I think it's something they changed earlier this week that is causing it all.

I don't think it's anything about cookies or anyone's cache. If that was it the problem wouldn't be INTERMITTENT. Hopefully these are just mindless automatic replies and the people responsible for the problem really do have a clue and are working on it.

I communicated with adsense technical support for many days. It's a known issue and they are aware of it. But looks like there is no fix of this so far.

Good, then they are at least working on it. I wish they would communicate the truth of these things sooner.

[raja4]

Not sure if Google is working on it. What I meant was that Google is aware of the problem.

Other thing I noticed that pages that has Google adsense on it takes at least 15-20 seconds more on this specific computer. IE 6.0 progress bar at the bottom stays at 100% and full page loads after a long time. Pages without adsense are just fine on this specific computer. Pages with adsense on it are fine on all other computers. It's just one computer on the network that is having problems.

I wish I could just fix it as it is so annoying and hinders the development work.