Other contextual advertisers and AdSense

Run one as an alternate ad?

[madmatt69]

AdSense tends to show a lot of PSA's on a lot of my pages, would it be allowed if I could use another text advertiser as an alternate ad?

It might take longer to get a cheque from the other ad network, but at least the traffic wouldn't be wasted on those big ugly PSA's.

I know we're not allowed to show both on the same page, but if it's an alternate ad, then Google wouldn't be showing any text ads regardless.

Anyone have experience with this?

[edited by: Jenstar at 4:42 pm (utc) on June 12, 2004]

[madmatt69]

Nobody has an idea?

[ChrisKud5]

Hi,

You are more than welcome to specify alternate ad information or a color to block out PSA'a

In the adsense settings menu you can specify another ad server, webpage, or color to fill in for the missing ads. Note that you must re-paste new adsense code with the alternate ad server information in it in order for alternate ads to be served.

I have been getting a TON of psa's latley on some pages where i eleted not to use alternate ads. Also, I have had a real bad experiance getting new pages added in the past 12 hours targeted for Adsense ads.

[madmatt69]

Right on.

I'm having the same problem, and AdSense support just keeps sending me generic answers. It might take a while to get a cheque from an alternate company, but at least the clicks won't be going to waste.

[ChrisKud5]

madmatt69-

You are better off specifiying an alternate ad URL (even if it is just a self made banner that advertises another area on your site that has targeted ads alot of the time).

I am not a fan of giving away traffic as charity work. I donated at the office, and I want targeted ads, not PSA's

[billegal]

I guess this is more of a technical question:

How would I use an alternate ad that uses code just like the Adsense code?

I can't understand how I might do this via some sort of include or by pointing to a file on my server.

Thanks for any help.

[level80]

I used to use Valueclick as an alternate ad as they have ads in the same size I used with Google (120x600). However you need to create an HTML file for the alternate ads containing the code you would have, upload it to your website, then change each page on your website to show the alternate ads.

[ChrisKud5]

Yes, you can place the code in a html file and specify that file name under the "alternate ad url" box in the google settings -> create placement screen.

You will have to go back and change all of your adsense placements unless you use a single adsense code block in a file and include it into your files.

I know some companies (whose name i guess i cannot say here after all those posts were deleted recently) request that you put the page URL in the code for each page the ad will appear on. I have not done this, I will not due this, but the ads still seem to working just fine. I'd check whatever you use if they request you do this and see if it is actually needed. I put the domain name in that part of the code and it seems to work fine.