We just signed up today. Almost all of the ads do not show the url of the advertiser. How do we review the site to see if we want to stop it from being shown on our site (we do not want sites directly competitive with our products) without clicking on the ad?
Right click on the ad area and choose view frame source (in Firefox) and View Source (in IE) - you will find the URL
Viewing page source is the simple trick I guess.. U can search for "pub-" becoz adsense publisher ID starts with "pub-", ads will be near that publisher code .. Thanks,
If someone wanted to find the direct URL to one of the Adsense banners, you would have to view the source of that iFrame generated by google's javascript and then read through the javascript because the onclick attribute on the link for each banner actually adds a few GET variables and values at the end of the URL of the link and then uses that link. But that link is never shown to you unless you read and evaluate the Javascript code yourself.
can't you just click it and copy the url and then just press the back button real quick? Isn't it, you have stay on a page for like 1 minute or something for the actual click to be counted?
lol, romeo, be careful. Google tracks IP clicks! There is no pleading your case if you get banned! Viewing page source, (i hope you do not own a website) basically is just viewing the source (html) of your webpage. When you right click on your webpage, (not on a photo) you will see view source. Or you can use the toolbar.
Right-click the ad, choose Copy Link Location (or Copy Shortcut for you Intarweb Exploder users) and then go to Notepad and Paste it in there.
AdSense preview tool isn't available for everyone, and it doesn't always give the results you expect. The last time I used it, for instance, the ads weren't at all the same set of ads that were actually appearing, and were completely untargeted, or the ads that were in my competitive ad filter appeared in the preview tool. Maybe those problems have been fixed, but it's pretty irrelevant when you aren't using Intarweb Exploder anymore...
I'm not sure about hovering over Google Ads, but it works for us, and it shows on the bottom of the page go to: whatever.com
that may not work always - an advertiser may show ebay.com in the hover URL but the click may take you to a different site.
This is sort of easy to do actually. First download firefox if you don't already have it, that way you can view source of the particular iframe. Right click on the ad (iframe), under "This Frame -->" view frame source. Press <ctrl> + <F>. Type "a href" without quotes. The URL within the quotes is a link within the banner. If thats not the link you want, click "find next." Copy/Paste that into firefox. If you understand HTML/Javascript, notice that the anchor links have onclick="" attributes with Javascript functions. You will have to evaluate these functions because it will concatenate some GET variables at the end of the URL. The URL contains some hashes that could contain some sort of encrypted info like the IP address and the referring URL and some other info, so giving the completed URL for other computers to click on it is not going to count for click throughs (in theory). And copy/pasting the URL from the href attribute without actually evaluating the javascript functions will probably not count as a click through.
You should also download the Google AdSense preview tool, which is the safest way to get the destination URL for an ad: http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/topic.py?topic=160
I hope you found a tool to find what you're looking for. ANyway, on the top toolbar of this page there is a link for tool > "View adsense ads in this url:" type in your url and hit go. It would show you the ads showing in your page. From what I gather you can click from there because it is in test mode or something something like that. Read it carefully b4 clicking.
Isn't it a lost of time to ban competitors this way ? AdSense advertisers change all the time and ads displayed in your region are replaced by others in other areas. So, this exercise is going to take a lot of time. In my opinion, this is very ineffective. If you still want to do it, I recommend the AdSense preview tool which is the safest way to make these checks. Jean-Luc