AdSense on a private area

Discussion in 'Guidelines / Compliance' started by chiefwiggum, Oct 27, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hi guys,

    I'm planning a "secret" area on my forums (running phpBB) where only a few users would have acess to. The other areas remain public. The idea of this area is obvisouly not generate revenue, but discuss new ideas for the site. I'm afraid that it might violate the TOS, since I can't find a way to remove ads only from that specific area.

    Any thoughts or suggestions here?

    Thanks!
     
    chiefwiggum, Oct 27, 2005 IP
  2. The Webmaster

    The Webmaster IdeasOfOne

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    #2
    Why do you think it will Violate TOS?? :confused: :confused:
    I dont see any reason.
     
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  3. Abilnet

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    At least the popular statcounter.com (PR 10) has AdSense in their private area...
     
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    dzcap Well-Known Member

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    You can have adsense in members only area.
     
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  5. chiefwiggum

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    Wow, thanks for the replies!!

    I heard somewhere you couldn't have ads on private areas, it's always better to check first :D
     
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    AdSense in your underwear, there's a new one for private areas...
     
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  7. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    #7
    Unless you let the Google mediabot though I think you'll get PSA's anyway - hang on I'll check on my forum...

    Actually no - you still get ads displaying... They don't look site targetted either (In terms of CPM or whatever) - if the Mediabot can't crawl those pages (because they aren't visible to the open public - and haven't ever been either), how can it serve ads to them?

    AdSenseAdvisor?
     
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  8. torunforever

    torunforever Peon

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    #8
    If your only question is will you get in trouble, then you probably have nothing to worry about. I searched around for opinions, and it seems there's nothing in the TOS, but just that Google doesn't support it, so you just wouldn't have any actual ads showing up behind the login.

    http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=10035
    If you do want to allow ads behind a login, there are ways (for example, allowing the mediapartner bot to bypass the login - a security risk for sure), but it's recommended that you write to Google to ask if it's ok, because it's really only best if you have a large user base in your private forum.
     
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  9. Roman

    Roman Buffalo Tamerâ„¢

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    :)When I saw the title of the thread I thought you were going to get an "ADSENSE" tattoo.
     
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    lorien1973 Notable Member

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    I thought something worse! I was wondering whose private areas get more traffic than their websites :eek:
     
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    EWpro Well-Known Member

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    me too...:eek:
     
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    #12
    Which will read "ADSE" in normal Situation??:confused:
     
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    chiefwiggum Peon

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    Hahahaha!!! Talk about smart choice of titles :D

    I'd better think of something else next time :D
     
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    #14
    OK, back on topic please...
     
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  15. Roman

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    or "dense" for those slightly more endowed.
     
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    #16
    If the AdSense crawler can't crawl the pages (either because they're in a protected area of the site or they're listed in the robots.txt file) then AdSense resorts to using ads related to the overall theme of the site. So if your site is completely about "blue widgets", you should see ads for "blue widgets". If your site is all over the map, you probably won't see well-targeted ads. And you'll see more PSAs, so be sure to have alternate URLs ready.
     
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    Thanks for the advice :)
     
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