Any Way to Get Just 1 Ad?

Auto-ads Splatters EVERYTHING

[Sally Stitts]

Is there any way to enable AdSense auto-ads, and load JUST ONE D@MNED AD?

I tried it again, but it appears that if you have just one ad manually placed, you get buried in cr@p.
I set the slider to the far left - minimum ads.
There is no auto load code in the header.

Instead, I get 5 humongous, untargetted ads splattered all down the page. IT LOOKS LIKE HE||.

Doesn't it EVER occur to Google that some participants have a little pride,
and do NOT want to just lie down and be trampled upon. HUH? NEVER? HUH?

Apparently not. I gotta do something else. Intolerable. Unconscionable.
STUPID. The almighty buck reigns.
In this case, scroogh the almighty buck. I ain't havin' it.
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[Sally Stitts]

We have 2 choices -
1. A bucket of ads
2. No ads

I am forced to choose NO ads.
I don't exist for Google.
I exist for my readers.
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[IanCP]

1000+

[tangor]

@Sally Stitts ... I love your rants! Really do.

As for the other ... it's their game, not yours. Never was yours. Never will be.

House Rules. You, The Player, have to abide.

Of course there are OTHER GAMES out there, but they aren't cut and paste. In those games you have to do a lot of heavy lifting to get the prize. Intimidating to start, but once started, pays bigger dividends and there's a secondary plus: You Are The House!

Please, don't be bashful and hold back. Tell us what you Really Think! :)

[Sally Stitts]

Thanks, guys.
It's just that it was a great game, for so long, it is difficult for me to accept the way it has gone, and what it has become.
I know that others have had continuing success, but it was dead for me since 2015, and has gotten worse since.
I need to grasp reality, accept life as it is, and move on, per tango's comments.

I need to study the options of the "other" games. Maybe I'll get lucky, and find something less oppressive and troublesome.
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[Saver]

"Bucket of ads" done by Auto Ads will get you warnings now so be careful out there

[IanCP]

@Tangor

House Rules. You, The Player, have to abide.

Heh! Heh!

Reminds me of one of my late father's favourite expressions - having been brought up on an outback Queensland cattle station in the early 1900's. He was obsessed with cowboys, and anything to do with cowboys - books, films, magazines, comics.

1st Cowboy: "Dang it - this House is a crooked roulette wheel, impossible to win!"
2nd Cowboy: "I know but it's the only game in town"

My Dad would say that's Adsense. He used that example in numerous aspects of daily life. My Dad:
[electronics-tutorials.com ]

[Sally Stitts]

@Saver
I set the slider thingy at minimum. Set a record. I got 10 ads on one page. Six of which were the SAME AD. Thrilling! Genius!

@IanCP
Yes. So apt. And funny. But not really, in this case. I will now do my Trump imitation. "SAD."
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[JorgeV]

Hello,

> Is there any way to enable AdSense auto-ads, and load JUST ONE D@MNED AD?

Turn on Auto-ads, and in Ad formats disable "In-page ads", then place the one ad slot you want in your page, yourself.

[Sally Stitts]

I am not seeking blanket granularity, I am seeking page granularity.
The "all or nothing option" is exactly what I am complaining about.

Using custom channels made it easy, without auto-ads.

BUT, with auto-ads, there is no way to see on WHICH page EACH and EVERY click, on each TYPE of ad occurred?
I can't see ALL the click information anyway, so why bother?
Without that info, I have no idea what to concentrate on. How do I shoot at a target I can't see?
(Am I missing something, besides just being a cranky old complainer? The convolution and hidden stuff drives me nuts.)
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[tangor]

It's not called black box tech for nothing...

That said, the reporting tools do lack transparency and I don't have an answer for that issue.

On the other hand, if you do your own adverts (more work) you will know exactly what is in play and on which page(s) the action occurred. That, however, is not cut and paste and trust a third party...

Different strokes...

[frankleeceo]

I always thought Auto-AD = auto jam ad to the max, disregard content, layout, UX. It's a no brainer no for me. After I saw it put a half page Ad on someone's site Above the fold, with mobile anchor.

I customize all of my ad positions depending on site and page layout individually. It takes a lot of work, but I think it pays off.

[Lagonda]

Remember when you could only have 3 ads on any given page?

[martinibuster]

Yes, there is a way to control the ads. Surprised nobody has answered the original question.

In the Auto Ads panel you can input a page that represents a typical page and manually exclude sections of the page you don't want the ads to show.

However, if you only want one ad to show then Auto Ads is not for you.

Good luck,
;)

Roger

[riccarbi]

Remember when you could only have 3 ads on any given page?

It actually was that you could have no more than 3 ads on any given page, sometimes only one or two, depending on your content and what they deemed the acceptable ad density for it; otherwise, super G - defender of the user experience - would have immediately suspended your Adsense account for your inexcusable policy violation. Hilarious, isn't it?

[Samsam1978]

I remember those days lol

[tangor]

In the Auto Ads panel you can input a page that represents a typical page and manually exclude sections of the page you don't want the ads to show.

Who decides what the "typical" is? Webmaster or g?

Too many variables ... I'm not surprised some are getting conflicting results.