Ask Jeeves not a thief

Adsense iframe has a major flaw

[oneway]

I posted a thread in the supporters forum and thought I should here also:

A few weeks ago, I read a thread about Ask Jeeves in which I became angry that the Ask frame was "stealing" Adsense clicks.
To elaborate. When you do a search in Ask Jeeves, lets say for "widgets". You are presented with a list of results. If you click on "Blue Widgets at Discount."

Ask then presents the resulting site as a "framed" page with the Ask Jeeves header. Now, if this site is an Adsense Participant, then this is where it gets questionable.

When you mouse over the "Ads by Goooogle" and look at the status bar of Blue Widgets at Discount's , the referring URL should be www.bluewidgetsatdiscount.com.

However, in Ask Jeeves, when in a results frame, the status bar clearly showed the URL as www.ask.com. Thus, the flurry of accusations - Thief, Thief!

I was furious to think Ask Jeeves would steal my Adsense clicks - so I broke my site out of frames with a simple Javascript. Problem solved! Right?! Well, not exactly.

Just Today, I was working on a clients site - adding an Iframe. At the top is their header, and in the iframe was the site to be displayed. Similar to the Ask Jeeves results page - and Guess What?

The "Ads by Goooooogle" now showed that the referrer was my clients site - NOT the actual site.

While sites that use frames are to use the Special coding for their Adsense - how can we eliminate this Iframe problem? Afterall, if the original site is not in frames, then they probably won't use the "special" coding - right?

Therefore, the iframe causes a very big problem!

So, the question is, was Ask jeeves aware of this flaw and at fault? Or is this a case of mis - taking Adsense Identity.

In either case - Adsense needs to fix this major flaw!

Comments?

NOTE: I noted the problem disappears when you click on any of the Iframe sites navigation links. This flaw is only exisits on the one iframe link page.

[jadebox]

Some would argue that framing a site without express permission is not nice in any case.

You can add a simple javascript script to your pages to escape from the frame:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
if (window!= window.top) top.location.href = location.href;
//-->
</script>

-- Roger

[oneway]

I personally use the frame break script - thanks for posting it again. And We established permission before we framed the site. In fact, my client works for the framed site as well, so it was actually their idea.

:)

[jadebox]

I was refering to Ask Jeeves's framing of sites - not yours. :-)