How to post more than one ad

[elmer166]

Am a newbie here and I am having trouble placing more than one ad on the page. I have read the help pages and cannot figure it out. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[celgins]

Welcome to WW, Elmer166!

What type of problem are you having with posting two ads?

Google allows up to three ads per page, and each ad can be the same format: (468x60), or different formats: (468x60, 300x250, 120x600)

[elmer166]

I can only post one ad. When I change the code, and place it in my web site I cannot see it. I only see one ad. I use front page as my editor.

Thanks

[europeforvisitors]

In another recent thread, someone suggested that preview doesn't always work with multiple AdSense ads. (In other words, you may not see the second ad unit until the page has been published on the Web.)

[21_blue]

elmer,

if you are viewing the ad in a page on your computer, you may only see one ad because Adsense only fills one space with a public service ad. It leaves all the rest blank.

When you upload to the website, it will fill as many ad blocks as it can find advertisers for - though it may take the adsense robot a couple of days or more to process your page and find the right ads. If there isn't much ad copy available, it may only fill one block.

So, upload the page(s) and give it a few days and see what happens.

But make sure you copy all the code from the Adsense website for each ad each time. That is, your html should look like this if you have 3 ads on the page:

Content, content, content

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-blahblahblah";
google_ad_width = blah;
google_ad_height = blah;
google_ad_format = "blah";
google_ad_type = "blah";
google_ad_channel ="blah";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

Content, content, content

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-blahblahblah";
google_ad_width = blah;
google_ad_height = blah;
google_ad_format = "blah";
google_ad_type = "blah";
google_ad_channel ="blah";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

Content, content, content

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-blahblahblah";
google_ad_width = blah;
google_ad_height = blah;
google_ad_format = "blah";
google_ad_type = "blah";
google_ad_channel ="blah";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

[celgins]

Elmer.... exactly what EFV and 21-blue said. If you're testing your ad links by viewing them on your site, you may only see one ad and it may even be a public service announcement (PSA).

But reading your comments, it sounds like you may be adjusting the ad code by changing "google_ad_width, google_ad_height" parameters.

Do what 21_blue said and make sure you have code copied from Google Adsense for three separate ads.

[RickT]

Some have suggested that it takes time for Google's servers to send enough ads there. I've also seen another answer (apparently from Google itself) and according to it, when there are not too many ads for the keywords on your page - and you might not have too many of them if you have just started - there will not be enough ads for two different ad blocks.

Anyway, what I did was that I removed my first ad completely, then placed the second ad, and then the first one again. That seems to have done the trick for me.

[edited by: Jenstar at 3:01 am (utc) on Jan. 25, 2006]
[edit reason] Removed site review request specifics [/edit]