Commenting out adsense...

Anyone have any luck doing this? I am building a template. The company wants the index page and a few of the other pages to go live, but the ones without content, they want a coming soon. I have decided to comment out the adsense <!-- but in IE it displays the closing set, but not in FF. Just wondering if anyone has done this before?

 

I put my ads in server side includes case I want to change the look of them and not have to update all the pages, then you can just not do the include code on the pages you dont want the ad.

<!--#include file="ad.asp"-->

 

I don't have that option with their server...

 

i've seen the problem you are describing as well. so, i've just been avoiding commenting out adsense blocks and remove them completely until i need to make them visible

 

There has to be a work around....

 

Is there any problem with use javascript includes for adsense ads? There are two scripts for every ad; do they have to be in separate .js files?

Google doesn't care about having the files in includes I dont' imagine...

jw

 

I would do it like this:
original

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-000000000000000";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
google_ad_channel ="4359828472";
google_color_border = "FFF8E8";
google_color_bg = "FFF8E8";
google_color_link = "009A00";
google_color_url = "990000";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

Code (markup):

commented out

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-000000000000000";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
google_ad_channel ="4359828472";
google_color_border = "FFF8E8";
google_color_bg = "FFF8E8";
google_color_link = "009A00";
google_color_url = "990000";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<[COLOR="Red"]!-- [/COLOR]script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script[COLOR="Red"] --[/COLOR]>

Code (markup):

 

Thinking about it, if that commenting doesn't work, comment out all the script tags like so..

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-000000000000000";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
google_ad_channel ="4359828472";
google_color_border = "FFF8E8";
google_color_bg = "FFF8E8";
google_color_link = "009A00";
google_color_url = "990000";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<!-- script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" -->
<!-- /script -->

Code (markup):

 

This has long been debated, if you cut and paste the code, that is considered 'editing' the code, but at the same time, when it is served, displays the same...

 

I think Google's intent is that we don't modify the AS code, in that we don't change what it does and how it displays

 

That could be a costly assumption..

 

You just might be right BTW, did you get your AdSense code commented out?

 

Yes and no, FF it is, IE shows a couple of the tags...

 

Why comment it? Just remove it until you need it.

I've found the same problem though, and now what I do is just use PHP to comment them out.. but this will only work if you're working on a PHP site.

You'd do it like this:

<?php
/*
<script...... adsense code></script>
*/
?>


Works great


Josh

 

Yea, that may just work...

Thanks Josh...

Now, if I could just someone to help me with my frames issue

(that's right, I am hojacking my OWN thread...hehe)

 

watch out we got a HOJACKER!