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Using javascript to hide text to Mediabot?

Is this a practical?

         

fischermx

9:59 pm on May 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Hi,

I have a site which just started a few days ago.
I am having ads about affiliate sites, marketing, etc which is totally unrelated to the content.
I have the "affiliate" word several times on the text, so I was thinking to use something like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("Example.com is not affiliated with redwidgets.com nor bluewidgets.com")
</script>
With the hope that mediabot won't see the text and have more chances to get targeted ads.

What do you think?
I don't think I incur in any TOS violation, do I?

razinkane

4:42 am on May 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



No it doesn't look like a TOS violation from my end, but I don't work at Google (where hiding things is bad!).

elfred

7:40 am on May 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I faced ugly results by simply putting some text links to affiliates. I took me ten days before realizing that MediaBot basically targeted AdSense ads towards those 4 links. Using JavaScript is the only viable solution I can think of.