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Your Alternate Ad URL can point to any of the following formats:Static Images
Clickable Images: To load a clickable image, specify an HTML page containing the link information for your ad. For example:
<a href="https://www.google.com"><img src="https://www.mydomain/images/Picture1.jpg" /></a>
Ad Server: You can also enter the URL of your ad server. For more information on linking to a third-party ad server, please contact your ad network directly.
I think it should read (to be more clear):
Your Alternate Ad URL can point to any of the following formats:Static Images
For example:
[mydomain...]Clickable Images: To load a clickable image, specify an HTML page containing the link information for your ad. For example:
[example.com...]
Then your HMTL (my-468x120.html) page would have:
<html>
<head>
<title>My Ad</title>
</head>
<body><a href="https://www.google.com" target="_top"><img src="https://www.mydomain/images/Picture1.jpg" /></a>
</body>
</html>Ad Server: You can also enter the URL of your ad server. For more information on linking to a third-party ad server, please contact your ad network directly. For example:
[adserver.example.com...]
The problem I see is people thinking they can just do something like:
<a href="https://www.google.com" target="_top"><img src="https://www.mydomain/images/Picture1.jpg" /></a>
for the clickable image option 2. The FAQ needs to be cleaned up a little. Hope that helps some people here.
But from what I hear, the format you suggest results in clicking on that ad coming up inside the iframe. What is the exact format for the target=_blank or target=_top?
From what I see, your url gets added to Google's pageads url so I don't think the target would work. (I'm having trouble testing this as adsense displays some junky ad no matter which page it's on my site.)
I tried:
google_alternate_ad_url = "http://mydomain.com/someimage.jpg";
no good :(
Anybody got this to work well? What did you do exactly?
SN
erm.. and now, all my PSA pages suddenly show targeted ads, even those with EVIL words on them... just so I can't test the alternate ads :(
SN
AdSense will look at the blank page, see no content, and revert to your default.
