404 Not found

[tamen]

Sometimes some of my ads shows a "not found"-error page instead of the actual add.
The address of the add is: [normal.url.com...]
Where ffffff is where there usually is a lot of information prolly used by google to retrieve and show the right ads. Somehow I think the javascript gets confused and sends either the background color-code or the frame color code instead of the right information.

Until yesterday I thought it was just my installation of Safari, but then I saw the same thing in Firefox on my PC.

Is anyone else getting this?

[top5jamaica]

adsense image ads or text only ads?

[wellzy]

I have not had this problem at all. I check my ads frequently and have never had this happen.

wellzy

[tamen]

Text ads.
It happens regularly.
Sometimes I can "fix" it by going to another page and then go back to the first page again. A refresh doesn't help.
If its only at my place the problem isn't that big, but if it happens for everyone on the same scale I could be loosing money. (Not that I make that much off of adsense)

[mvander]

Do you have anything set for an alternate ad?

[tamen]

Yeah. Its supposed to be just the color white. The code is:
google_alternate_ad_url = "#FFFFFF";
I tried with both "ffffff" and "FFFFFF". None of them seems to work.
"ffffff" gives me the not found page at google. The other two just gives me an error: "Too many HTTP redirects".
Is there a way to just show the ads when possible and not show anything when there is no ads? As it is now, at least thats how I suppose it should be, there would just be a white space.

[tamen]

Found the error. I messed up the code.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[jonknee]

Just in case someone finds this because of a similar problem in the future--the problem is that you need to enter a URL for the alt ad. If you enter a color, weird things like this happen. You can enter the URL of a blank page, that will give you white.

[tamen]

Yeah. I wasnt looking when I changed that value.
google_alternate_color = "FFFFFF"; is the correct code.