Easy way to pull ads needed

[recidivare]

In moments of crisis, usually when I get an uncomfortably high CTR. I often wish there was an easy way to pull ads completely and wait for things to settle.

Ideally a simple selection in my Adsense Account where I can either choose to publish or be damned.

I currently run an all HTML site and manual deletion of ads would be time consuming to say the least.

[Hobbs]

Lookup ad code insertion via SSI, you will find the answer, another option would be investing in a good CMS package, look this one up too.

[jomaxx]

1. SSI's file, but these days PHP would be the most popular way to go. You can use your .htaccess file to tell the server to treat .html pages the same as .php ones, so you don't have to change all your URLs. Or...

2. Use a professional-quality text editor like TextPad, in which you can load dozens or even hundreds of pages at once, and then define an on-the-fly macro to perform the same action on each page. Or...

3. Take a valium. The main reason for seeing unusual stats is simply that the number of impressions and clicks is too low to be statistically significant, especially when Google has glitches in the timing for reporting clicks. I've been with AdSense for years and have never gotten antsy and felt the need to remove the ads.

[curlykarl]

The easiest way is to use

<?php include("includes/google.php");?>

When you dont want the adds running, pull the google.php off the server. :)

[wonderboy]

Or change the content of google.php to be something more user friendly than a white space =)

[Hobbs]

Wouldn't the free phpAdsNew do the job and give easy control & additional stats too?
Someone here said that it was approved by Google.
(as long as you do not modify the code)
Anyone using it?

[recidivare]

another option would be investing in a good CMS package, look this one up too

It's in the works as we speak but nevertheless, It would be far simpler for G to provide this as a function rather than leaving the onus on the publisher. Yes I want my cake and eat it!

[jomaxx]

Seriously, Google don't provide this capability because they don't want or expect you to pull your ads for frivolous reasons. If you see something wildly wrong you can shoot them an email, but there's no need to remove the ad code.

[recidivare]

Well your frivilous reason might be my cast iron belief, it's all relative. Suffice to say I have never actually pulled my ads in 2 years. It would be nice however to have a simple method to do it should I wish.