Problem with alternate ads

I sent this to Adsense team:

Original Message Follows:
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From: "Colin Crawford" <sales@ideliverit.com>
Subject: Ad Code Troubleshooting
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:46:30 -0000

Hi,

I placed code below for the leaderboard. Notice the alternate url I put in
there to display ads from that url if mine starts showing the public
service ads. Well, All it does is show that url's banner and no ads. Is
there a way of fixing this?

<!-- START Advertisement Banner -->
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-2410886458358122";
google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/forum/";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel ="";
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "6131BD";
google_color_url = "6131BD";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
<!-- END Advertisement Banner -->


Language: en-uk
AdSenseLocale: en_GB
Name: Colin Crawford
URL: www.mymoviereview.info/resources-directory.asp
topic: Ad Code Troubleshooting

This is their response:

Hello Colin,

Thank you for letting us know about your difficulty implementing an
alternate ad.

Please be aware that only URLs, not HTML code, can be entered as alternate
ad URLs in your Google AdSense account. Inputting HTML code will cause
errors in your pages containing the AdSense code.

To use an image, which can be clicked on, as your alternate ad, you will
need to create a separate HTML page containing the HTML for the image and
the corresponding link. The URL of this separate HTML page should be used
as the alternate ad URL.

For example, your HTML page might contain the following code:
<a href="http://www.google.com" target="_top"> <img
src="http://www.mydomain/images/Picture1.jpg"></a>

If the URL for your HTML page is http://www.mydomain.com/ad.html, you
would enter http://www.mydomain.com/ad.html in the 'Show ads from another
URL' text box when following the guided AdSense Setup to generate your ad
code.

For additional assistance in implementing an alternate ad, please visit
our Alternate Ad Guide: https://www.google.com/adsense/alternateads .

For additional questions, we suggest you visit our AdSense Support site at

http://www.google.com/adsense_help . If you're unable to find an answer to
your question on our site, please feel free to reply to this email.

Sincerely,

Mariela
The Google AdSense Team


Am I missing something here?

Col

 

you should make a page that will show an alternate 728x90 banner and set the google_alternate_ad_url to that page, not to the forum. For example:
google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/ad.html";

and ad.html file will have the alternate ad html code.

 

"Notice the alternate url I put in there to display ads from that url if mine starts showing the public service ads. "

The alternate url isn't used as another source for ads, it IS the ad. So whatever you have in the alternate url will show instead of psa's.

-Erik

 

I think what is being said here is I must find a page that uses the same leaderboard so that page's ads will show on mine. Is this correct? Or, am I not getting the point?

Anyone know of any entertainment or movie related sites using the leaderboard?

Col

 

you should create a simple page that will show ONLY the alternate add.

 

send me a PM if you need help

 

It's OK now. I have done it! Phew! What a palaver!!

 

i'm glad you solve it.