Setting up alternative ads

to replace public server announcements

[dauction]

I want to replace Googles PSA's (when they show up) and instead serve up my linkable banners (to one of my inner pages).

So lets say a visitor does a se search and lands on...

mysite.com/page1.htm

I want my banner to appear instead of adsense PSA's on page1

The banner is hyperlinked to a page3 on my site..page 3 for example is a page with a concert ticket form.

Page 2 is nothing but the my banner that has a hyperlink to page 3.

when creating my adsense code I choose Show non-Google ads from another URL

I added this address mysite.com/page2.htm as page 2 contains my linkable banner

Not working..do I need to just wait before my own banner starts showing or did a miss step?

thanks

[Leonard0]

Did you add the alternate ad's URL to your AS code as indicated in the Adsense support:
[google.com...]

ie:
google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.mysite.com/page2.htm";

Also, you have to use target="_top" in the link to your image.

[edited by: Leonard0 at 7:12 pm (utc) on Dec. 13, 2006]

[Hobbs]

Hi dauction,

Do not you setup a whole html page with the code inside it (page2), setup a file containing only the banner serving code: An easy way to also track the impressions of PSA is to use a banner serving software, plenty of those free in Perl and PHP, setup a banner in it, set the software to point clicks to Page3.html, and from that software, obtain html code that loads this banner. Then place that code in a public file on your server (file2.html), and point the "Show non-Google ads from another URL" to where this file is.

What you're doing wrong probably is that file2.html is a whole html page, while it needs to be a file containing only the ad serving code, which can be few lines of html code if you don't want to use ad serving software btw.

[dauction]

Thanks Guys.. I think the issue was I didnt have target="_top

is there a way to test or do I have to wait for google to actually serve up an alternative ad?

hobbs I didnt use the PSA tracking , I'll take a look in cpanel pretty sure I have a banner server in there