If this is not the correct forum for this post, I apoligize in advance. I have a SMF forum and I have tried insterting adsense code both through an ad plugin, and manually. Every time the ads show up as solid blue, except when I log into the admin panel, when you can see them correctly. I tried posting this problem on the SMF forum and didn't receive any help. Anyone have an idea what the issue is? Thanks, Frank
Here are the screen shots. # 1 is the home page showing the blank blue space at the top of the page where the ad should be. # 2 is after logging into admin, when the ad shows up. Thanks...
dude its nothing much.. just the default color to show when there is no ads to be displayed you can change this to your site's background color in your Adsense 'Manage Ads' section see the screen shot below when you are not logged in there are no ads to be displayed and when you are logged in the admin panel has a lot of text so obviously there are some relevant ads to be shown... and apart from that I guess its against the TOS to show google ads in pages that doesnt have any content. _
Well your best way of finding out is by contacting google ....they will tell you whats wrong and how to fix it.
Do guests have permission to view this ad unit? Can you see the Adsense Codes? (click View -> Page source / source). Copy the page HTML source codes and paste them here, so we can take a look.
There is content on the home page at rei-ads.com. It talks about real estate investing ads, real estate investor network ,etc. That should be enough for google to pull from. It's every bit as much content as there is on the admin page. The permissions for the block the ad is insterted into is set to "everyone". 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first of all use the HTML or CODE tags to post any source code so that it makes reading easier and then dont display your adsense pub id its better to replace that with xxxxxxxxxxxx as you can see below your google adsense code is displaying so the only problem for that is there is no sufficient ads to display cos of less content put some more text in the main page and wait for adsense crawler to index and after sometime you will get relevant ads. _