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It just occurred to me - and so I thought I would post this here since someone had to either encounter this or figure it out (long before me).
I was showing off my website at school tonight when I realized that no Google Ads were showing up in the columns where they should have been.
Additionally, on the way home, I realized that I have at times so many page impressions on a set of pages with no clickthroughs.
While I know that not every page must have a clickthrough on an ad, I thought....
What if AD BLOCKERS are at work on peoples machines and desktops which prevents Google Ads from being shown?
What if a LARGE portion of my visitors employ AD BLOCKERS?
Is there any script to get around this?
I use (arrgghhhh) Front Page to format every page, is it FP that is doing this?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
No, there isn't, you can however use the alternate ads feature within Google Adsense and a noscript tag to display ads to people who wouldn't see them. As only about 89% of people use javascript - the noscript will probably net you more revenue than the previous suggestion.
People can block ads in all sorts of ways - from custom HOSTS files, just turning javascript off to specific programs or some kind of banned/blocked sites list at the proxy server they're using.
youfoundjake - Thank you for seeing the other other side to my question, naturally I had never considered that either.
I guess being new to adsense I had never considered either scenario as an issue.
I designed webpages with the obvious intention of having people see everything on them and when the all white space appeared, it made me re-think what the page possibly should look like for those that will not load up an ad.
Naturally, I would have thought that by now I should have run accoss a post on Webmaster World that would have a ton of webmasters complaining that they have a lot of page views and little CTR.
I am surprised that when I do see such a post here - never have I seen the AD BLOCKER issue mentioned... Usually the answer is.... design more pages... increase traffic... get more targeted ads....
It's rarely even ever considered.
Anyway... thank you!
If anyone can add more food for thought... please feel free to do so.
Where would the no script tag go... not in the Google code -what does it look like?
Thank you!
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BTW I think blocking Google ads at school ain't such a bad thing.
I know my pages are used a lot at school and I don't need the kids clicking around on the Google stuff.
Where would the no script tag go
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
your AdSense code
//-->
</script>
<noscript>Your alternate ad</noscript>
Though what actually goes in the <noscript>Your alternate ad</noscript>?
Would I just insert the Adsense code between the <noscript>?
Therefore:
Would it look like this:
<noscript>
Adsense Code
</noscript>
<noscript>
<img src="www.yourdomain.com/yourad.gif">
</noscript>
This helps in understanding at least the function of the tags...
Though thinking through this... how would this help? - are we saying here that this resolves the BLANK SPACE problem? - which I think it would.
But essentially...if a surfer has his ads blocked then one will have lost the ability to mentize the site to the visitor and that's the end of that.
Is there any way to at least estimate what could potentally ne lost to this?
I agree with the fact that schools and libraries that have those blocked... though I did notice that Google ads were showing up in the search results, just not on my pages.
I was showing off my website at school
Not such a good idea...
If your friends visit your website at home and click the ads repeatedly "to help you out", you might be in risk of getting banned from the program.
though I did notice that Google ads were showing up in the search results
then one will have lost the ability to mentize the site to the visitor
I'd be very happy if I could serve alternate content to people blocking ads. Lately I keep wishing I could even add a poll for them asking how many are knowingly blocking vs. unknowingly. A lot of firewalls block automatically without ever mentioning it to their users.
