Archive for 'Adsense'

Recently, Google announced there would be a new system of ad unit management for publishers and now finally it is here - well, not every publisher will see it just yet as it is currently in "roll out" phase. If you have not seen the changes to the new ad management within your Google Adsense account yet, don’t worry as you’re sure to shortly.

What does the new Ad Management system mean for publishers? To start off with, managing the colours, borders and channels is done simply and quickly through your Google Adsense account without having to modify Adsense code on your site. (Although you’ll need to allow changes up to 10 minutes to take effect.) Additionally, there is less code to be placed on pages ergo less chance of messing breaking the code (plus slightly quicker page load times).

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I have been trying out several Adsense plugins for Wordpress and found that one way or another that all but one did not meet my requirements (fairly basic ones, I think), so I decided to write up a review of it as it may help someone else looking for a similar Adsense Wordpress plugin. My requirements were as follows:

• The display of no more than 3 Adsense ad units at once.
• Flexibility of placement, e.g. ability to call an Adsense ad unit from within php theme files as well as from within a post.
• Easy to use.
• The ability to include the original Google Adsense Code (as generated by Google Adsense Setup).
• The ability to include some additional HTML, e.g. div wrapper, without having to modify a Wordpress theme and leaves the adsense code untouched.

Well, I have just finished setting up the plugin and customising the ad layout on my blog using a plugin which does meet those requirements: Adsense Deluxe.

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I was a bit worried because for some reason I could not see google ads on my blog, but saw them no problem on other ones. I wondered if perhaps my domain was banned. However, luckily not… I finally realised it was because the "ca-test" publisher ID was not working (my ads were set to switch to this in when I’m browsing my blog).

I wonder if it’s a temporary glitch or has Google Adsense disabled the use of this?

There were some bugs, so I’m released version 2.1.

The bugs were with handling of global variables, which worked fine for one site but not another (and both sites were running on the same server, therefore the same versions of php and apache), so after a lot of messing around and frustration, I finally read a bit deeper in to usage of the global variable and found a helpful (albeit undocumented) tip.

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NOTE: This is only here for historical purposes. The script has since been updated and the latest version is available from:

PHP Adsense-Referrals Script Version 2.1

There were a few bugs in version 2 of my script, so I am including the changes below: The following code should be removed from below the adsense referral array:

$using_firefox = preg_match("/firefox/i", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

and placed below:

$referrals = 0;

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