Adsense on a noindex page?

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Adsense on a noindex page?

LunaC

2:47 pm on Jul 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

Is adsense allowed to be placed on a results page that is using meta noindex?

I'm not sure if this is too specific, but the pages in question for me are results are from a header tester and link checker. The url of the tested pages are added as a string in the url, so I really don't want that listed in search engines (imagine the duplicate content mess.. uggh!). The content generated on the pages are also totally irrelevant to a search engine and adsense so I have noindex in the headers.

Should I use alternate advertisers there, or is it OK to use adsense?

I read through the TOS on Adsense, but honestly those long legalese paragraphs turned my brain to mush.

humblebeginnings

2:55 pm on Jul 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

The content generated on the pages are also totally irrelevant to a search engine and adsense

Sorry for asking, but if the content on that page is totally irrelevant to Adsense, why would you want to have Adsense on that page?

LunaC

3:04 pm on Jul 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

Before I realized it might not be allowed, I had uploaded the page with Adsense.. the ads were still targeted to my site topic. Just not the content on that particular page, which is just a short summary of the test results.

farmboy

4:00 pm on Jul 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

Is adsense allowed to be placed on a results page that is using meta noindex?

I think that is two questions.

1. Is adsense allowed to be placed on a results page?
2. Is Adsense allowed to be placed on a page that is using meta noindex?

As for #2, I haven't seen anything in the terms that would prohibit it and I am using AdSense on pages with noindex - and getting very good targeting.

FarmBoy

Powdork

4:41 pm on Jul 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

I use it on pages that are disallowed to Googlebot (but not mediabot) and it works fine.

jatar_k

4:46 pm on Jul 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

since those 2 bots swap duties allowing one and not the other is not really going to keep the page noindex

Hobbs

5:55 pm on Jul 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

I recently switched all the pages on my main site to noindex with no effect on AdSense or serps (so far)

Powdork

6:21 pm on Jul 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

since those 2 bots swap duties allowing one and not the other is not really going to keep the page noindex

I'm not too concerned. The pages have more affiliate duplicate content than I am proud to show Google. But if Google comes there without being invited, I don't mind.

[edited by: Powdork at 6:22 pm (utc) on July 10, 2006]