Do you use templates for your adsense ads?

Discussion in 'Content Management' started by qwestcommunications, Feb 4, 2006.

  1. #1
    If you want to make changes to layout/position you can do it very quickly or do you change each page manually?
     
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  2. Liminal

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    One problem with templating your adsense ads is not being able to specify different channel ids for different pages. This one is a big enough issue for me to not use templates for adsense
     
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  3. qwestcommunications

    qwestcommunications Notable Member

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    So do you have to go through each page when you want to make changes?
     
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    you still have to go through and change the code on each page, yes.
     
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    I use php for all my sites, then create a file and the only thing in it is the ad code. I pull this in so I only have to edit in one place.
    
    <?php
    include("mainadunit.php");
    ?>
    
    Code (markup):
     
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    Great. But unless you use third party tracking tools, you can't use channels to optimize your ads
     
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    I use style sheets, and generally have three or four different types (for contentA, contentB, login, etc.). That way I can just change the style sheet and it'll apply itself across all the relevant pages. I can't do channels for every individual page that way, but I just set up a style sheet for each type of page that I might want a different channel for. Its sort of a hybrid between a single template and doing everything by hand.
     
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    I use a content management system that I can make adsense ads as custom blocks. I can specify as many channels as I want and can change site wide settings very quickly.
     
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    ya you lose the channels, although I have segregated the templates into broad channels..
     
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