I recently joined adsense and decided to put a square ad box floating top right on my posts (Only when showing single posts) Unfortunately when I entered the HTML into the code it seems blogger has some parsing issues with google code. <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'> <div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5630441301022684"; /* WoWRGFloatTopLeft */ google_ad_slot = "6824574540"; google_ad_width = 250; google_ad_height = 250; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> </b:if> There is however a workaround <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5630441301022684"; /* WoWRGFloatTopLeft */ google_ad_slot = "6824574540"; google_ad_width = 250; google_ad_height = 250; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ show_ads.js"> </script> </div> </b:if> This code does not make any real difference apart from leting me show an advert heavily suggested by google itself, the modification however is clearly against google TOS. My question is would this modification be allowed as it is in no way trying to do anything subversive, just changing the coding slightly to keep it compatable with blogger. I also have a slight query regarding the search boxes, where I would like the choice of site search or web search to be below one another. I can see how to do this but I am wary of breaking google ToS even though it is purely a cosmetic change (Inserting <br></br>) And preferably changing the label to read my site name not the site address (WIth it benig a blogspot URL it is fairly long winded!
Unless the changes you made to the code is the same as the one generated from your Adsense account, it is a violation to policy for you to alter the code.
In that case how come so many websites amke tehse minor appearance changes and get away with it. Take WoWwiki .com for instance, even changed the display of the URL! There are many major websites that are using google and have made minor changes, as well as smaller ones. I really wish a google representative would talk to me abotu this rather than just sending a related response that actually doesnt get close to solving the problem!
Contact google thats the best advice I can give you I also contacted them for my isse for the http://surfproxy.us/news/world_news.php were I am using CSS to blend the ads. And they didnt give me an streight answer, they said to read the TOS but they didnt say that it was againts the TOS :S :???
wow that is risk if u change that ,,,, hmmm.. ever I read changing code will be banned and ads can't work very well but i dont know the fact !!!
contacted adsense staff and they sent me another generic email that didn't quite answer my question. God I hate these guys sometimes, it would be so easy, they could even have an option in their search box maker thing to list urls horizontally!