Good cloaking and Adsense

will it help/ cause problems w/ adsense or google serp?

[NibbleGuru]

I am planning to do cloaking of my adsense code such that when any search engine comes to visit, it doesnt notice the adsense/ sitesearch code on my site.

this will help me reduce the amount of bandwidth used by googlebot/ mediaparters/ msn/ yahoo bots. will this cause any problems with respect to adsense/ google serp?

[Sanenet]

Offhand, I can't think of anything, unless googlebot realises that you aren't displaying ads to it.

But, are you really THAT strapped for bandwidth?

[jetteroheller]

What are You paing per GB to think on this?!?

Strip Your HTML code from unnecessary CF LF
from all unnecessary "

[Bonusbana]

you can serve alternative content to bots using php. But Im not sure how google reacts to this... It might classify it as a spam attempt.

I guess you could just strip all layout tags, adsense code and server the pure content to bots.

[Galtego]

I wouldn't do it because Google (the search engine) gives the guideline: don't present different content to search engines than you display to users.

[europeforvisitors]

will this cause any problems with respect to adsense/ google serp?

Probably, and rightly so.

If bandwidth is costing you so much that you need to cloak your AdSense code, why not simply look for a cheaper hosting service?

[tebrino]

If you block mediapartners bot, Google will probably stop serving ads or will serve unrelated ads

[NibbleGuru]

you can serve alternative content to bots using php. But Im not sure how google reacts to this... It might classify it as a spam attempt.
I guess you could just strip all layout tags, adsense code and server the pure content to bots.

I am thinking of stripping the adsense code only. I am not modifying the real content in any way, but I am not sure how google/adsense will react to this.
i am not sure if google will penalize in the serp or i will be banned from adsense.

I wouldn't do it because Google (the search engine) gives the guideline: don't present different content to search engines than you display to users.

the word "content" is not 100% clear there, does this include the useless javascript of adsense or not.

[serutan]

Just out of curiosity, why do you want to "cloak" your adsense code?

[serutan]

Ignore my previous post; I just re-read your first msg which answers my question. Too late at night for me.

[Galtego]

The AdSense JavaScript turns into a block of content, that's the problem with cloaking it.

[jetteroheller]

You did not answer Your cost per GB.

2 adds are usual less than 1 KB

So even with 200.000 spider access per month,
this makes at $1 per GB less than 10 Cent.

So a discussion about 20 Cent per month is real sensless

[NibbleGuru]

You did not answer Your cost per GB.
2 adds are usual less than 1 KB

So even with 200.000 spider access per month,
this makes at $1 per GB less than 10 Cent.

So a discussion about 20 Cent per month is real sensless

my bandwidth is sponsered by my host and they increased it six fold yesterday, thats a non-issue now.

just a thought, the bots will ignore anything between the script tags then, there is no use giving them something they dont care a damn about.

[jetteroheller]

[ just a thought, the bots will ignore anything between the script tags then, there is no use giving them something they dont care a damn about. ]

There had been networks of web pages with no content, only keywords and on each page a javascript redirecting the user to an other page.

So bots are very interested in Javascript and what they do.