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Somewhere in the middle of what you pasted will be the url of the landing page from the ad.
I can add that the part of the link you are looking for is the one called "adurl".
First, please know that we are working on repairing the preview tool and it should be back to normal very soon.
In the meantime, we still ask that you don't click on your own ads. As mentioned, you can use the right-click function to find the destination URL for your ads.
There are complete instructions on:
[google.com...]
Cheers,
ASA
I've started clicking on my own ads because Google Adsense Preview Tool doesn't work anymore...
Why in the heck would you do that?
You need to see who's advertising that badly?
Come on...
I was kidding about clicking on my own ads ;)
I was kidding about clicking on my own ads ;)
Have you ever heard the story about the kid who cried wolf? :)
I was kidding about clicking on my own ads ;)
I think he is kidding about kidding ;)
You see, if I wink then that makes everything okay!
Hey Google!
I've started selling my Google shares till you list real websites again.
And it did attract some attention. Hopefully the engineers were given a hurry along!
The reason I'm so keen on using the tool is that because AdSense crawles the page when someone views it. Because I don't view it I like to whip out the preview tool and the bot will quickly come along and sort the page out.
I promise this is being worked on, and again apologize for the delay. We use the preview tool in AdSense support, too, so I understand how useful it is.
I'll make sure to forward this thread along.
I've started selling my Google shares till you list real websites again."
We've sold. We think that some bright boys have bright ideas that will eventually bring G down the drain.
I've started clicking on my own ads because Google Adsense Preview Tool doesn't work anymore...
However did we survive for the year before the preview tool launched ;)
That sounds clever. How do you do that?
I'm holding my breath until I can find my unique company name in the first billion search results.
I'm also standing on one leg until you get rid of the 30 supplemental pages that haven't existed for 10 months on my site.
I've stopped eating until you stop indexing my adwords advertisements.
Issues are killing my adsense income via no visitors.
Hurry, it is hard to type like this.
( I know... that's the search company stuff)
mafew wrote:
>I'm so careful about clicking on my own links that my site displays an
>image placeholder instead of AdSense when I'm on my work or home IP.That sounds clever. How do you do that?
What I do is simply create an image the same size as the google ad and while construction is in progress I drop it in in place of the ad code itself. This is really mainly to prevent the impressions being inflated artificially by my repeated reloads but also guards against accidental clicking. The ad code itself is pretty much the last thing that goes in before the site goes live.
This wouldn't have prevented the one time I accidentally clicked an ad, though (I emailed support right away). I was comparing the look/feel/flow of a new page with related pages and had some background processes running and... well, I'm sure most are familiar with the potential scenario even if they haven't done it themselves.
What would be really useful is if Google could offer a placeholder option on your computer when you are logged into your Adsense account. Obviously, they wouldn't want to introduce a loophole that allowed Internet Explorer to block ads, nor add an unnecessary overhead to the ad display process. But I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult and greatly appreciated by publishers.
This wouldn't have prevented the one time I accidentally clicked an ad, though (I emailed support right away). I was comparing the look/feel/flow of a new page with related pages and had some background processes running and... well, I'm sure most are familiar with the potential scenario even if they haven't done it themselves.
What would be really useful is if Google could offer a placeholder option on your computer when you are logged into your Adsense account. Obviously, they wouldn't want to introduce a loophole that allowed Internet Explorer to block ads, nor add an unnecessary overhead to the ad display process. But I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult and greatly appreciated by publishers.
I'm not sure how that duplicate post appeared. Does that mean, I wonder, if webmasterworld.com will now banned by Google? :-)
That sounds clever. How do you do that?
I use php, here's a simplified version of how to do it:
if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == '[your ip address]') {
echo '<img src="/images/adsense_skyscraper.gif" title="Placeholder" alt="Placeholder"/>';
} else {
echo '[adsense javascript code]';
}
Advantages:
I don't inflate impressions when I'm working on the site, which makes my eCPM lower and me sad.
No one at work will click on my ads and get me banned because they're on the same IP address as I.
Disadvantages:
I don't know what ads are displaying without the preview tool.
AdSense bot doesn't check the page until I ping it with the preview tool, or someone else comes along and views the page.
Actually, what might be useful is if I could somehow flag IP numbers in my Adsense account to tell Google not to count anything from those IP numbers as a billable click.
