[...] How To Hide Adsense From Social Traffic [...]

Learned something new here. Thanks!

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Now this is sweet! I’m saving it if I ever go back to using adsense

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Hi Dennis -

Nice to see you again, of course the script works with anything, not just Adsense……

Learn something new everyday, Thanks for the Tip!

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@ Yan!

Good Morning to you too. Thanks for dropping by.

BTW. I give you 10/10 for courage with your latest post (AskMy Read…..), and I suspect it will produce real gold in ‘feedback’.

@mcquillan

Indeed PHP is good, I use php on this blog to do just that, but the point of this particular script was to use a client-side script, rather than a server-side script because it is much easier for those ‘copy and paste’ users, and it works on Blogger, etc, where there are blocking codes that prevent server-side scripts working.

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Hello
its nice trick
but i think its much better to do it in php
smth like that:

if (traffic form serps or $_COOKIE['myads']) {
show ads;
put or update $_COOKIE['myads'] timelife;
}

Hi Centralcoast……

Do a search for free upload hosting and choose one that suits you; or try this one pick one off this list here: http://www.geekuploads.com/index.php
(Free upload sites are NOT suitable)

Edited 11th Feb 09 –

Hi Chewbacca -

I know it’s hard to find functional code for Blogger, so I’m happy to be of help.

I endorse your point that we ought to “get backlinks that are strong“!

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Thanks for the correction! This is awesome! I inserted your code on my Blogger blog, and its working like a charm!

There is no other place on the internet (trust me, I searched!) where you can get a free code for this function to use on Blogger. What a valuable tool! Anyone on Blogger who wants to increase their CTR and has social traffic absolutely needs to have this! Thanks for putting this together, Rhys, and thank you for your personal attention and help to me! You rock!

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Wow – I’ve never heard of this before! I had no idea that you should hide AdSense from some visitors, let alone how to do it. I’m happy I ran across your blog, and I’ll have to look into implementing this tip. Thanks!

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STUMBLED!

This is a great idea. Thanks for the idea and code.

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@KC Concepcion

Funny you should ask – I originally coded this in PHP, but went to JS because it suited all the bloggers.

I have updated the post with the relevant code attached.

Hope this helps – Rhys

Hi Rhys,

I’d forgotten you’d done this then saw your comment in Griz’s with the link.

I’ve been using the ozh who sees ads on my WP sites but had to swallow the social traffic on my blogspots and static sites and even withhold adsense on some, so this is a really useful piece of code for me.

Thanks man!

Terry Didcott

[...] writing much of this post, I came across an alternative solution from Rhys, which places Adsense within an IFrame. This gets around the problems mentioned above and should allow you to use the HTML/JavaScript [...]

Hi Stephen!

Return greetings from Sth Australia.

I was encouraged to use iFrames when I noticed that Amazon do. (Figured they were likely to know what they were doing!)

The Adsense server draws its info from the page that invokes it, so the iFrame surround will not compromise the relevance.

This is a really simple code-set, very suitable for Bloggers who generally tend to be non-geek.
– Rhys

BTW, it works for any ads, not just Adsense, there is some value in NOT hitting your core readers with advertising.

1. psycholog posted the following on September 21, 2009 at 6:14 am.

   I know it’s hard to find functional code for Blogger, so I’m happy to be of help.

   I endorse your point that we ought to “get backlinks that are strong“!

   Reply to psycholog

Great tip. Most people never bother making code for blogger they always make it for wordpress. I wonder if not showing ads on image search would increase earnings also. I do not think they click many ads so it would be interesting to see if you earn more not showing ads when someone finds site from image search.

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@High yield savings

Very interesting point: I haven’t actively considered that before, but had wondered about some of my sites where there is a lot of Google Image searches showing on the stats.

There is an easy cure – delete [or comment out] this line from the code:

“myArray[4]= ‘images.google.’;”

@Aaron

Perhaps you could put up a post about that for the benefit of other WP-Super-Cache users

Tried this with geocities, didn’t work. Tried the link you suggested, geekuploads, but they didn’t allow uploading htm files

Any other suggestions where I can upload? I use blogger and don’t really have my own website.

@ Anonymouse

The code is not changed in any material way.

@J

How in the Heck am I supposed to respond to your question if you don’t put your e-mail address??

However, for the benefit of other users, here goes:

I tried all the free file upload sites and none of them are any good, they either don’t allow hot-linking, or they ban files with html or php.

Answer = sign up with a Free Hosting site (I used awardspace.com with no problems); upload your Adsense ad file, and link to it from Blogger.

It takes maybe half an hour to set it up, but you have got a free permanent site you can use to store files online, and host anything you want!

Hi Rhys,

I added something similar(php) on my blog and I’m getting better CPC since then. Like Ken mentioned, a “else” would be nice to show an affiliate banners. Btw, the code I had was different than yours but in the end, it works.

You can use that tip in one of the theme included in MyStarterBlog. Just modified one to your taste. You could have incl_adsense_468_60.php, incl_adsense_300_250.php

Nice of you to show a Javascript alternative of the code.

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@J

PHP is good.

I don’t find any specific reference in G’s TOS, but the ’spirit’ of this script is good – after all the effect is to display Adsense ONLY to search traffic -can’t ask for better than that!

Hi Rhys!

Looking forward to your ‘play’ since I don’t understand javascript.

One more feature that pretty important is to add cookie to the searcher who found our site through search engine. Stephen Cronin at his post about Avoiding smart pricing has the solution but too bad it’s PHP driven, which mean if you are using cache plugin, it won’t function properly (correct me if I’m wrong).

Most of user have around 2 pageviews per visit, which mean it’s kind of leaving the money on the table to only displaying ads in the first page while user will leave the page after browsing for awhile…

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I really enjoy it! Thanks Rhys!
Btw, the link is not working, [edit = now fixed - Rhys]I was using the “view page source” to get the link to your How to hide adsense post.

Again, thanks for your hard work to code for us! Really appreciate it.

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@JD

You are on to it! You can adapt this code to display whatever to whomever – just change the referrer criteria to whatever you like………..

hello i try to use your code but i get some error maybe smart quote issue i am not sure can you please help me i have got tons of traffic from google image search i want traffic but i do not want to show adssense ads so is it possible to get code without smart code issue

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@Jessica

Here is the code with the smart quotes removed and edited to hide the ads from Google Images. Copy and paste it to your page.

<script type="text/javascript">
<!–
var myArray = [];
myArray[0]= '/search?';
myArray[1]= '.yahoo.';
myArray[2]= 'search.';
myArray[3]= '/search/';
for(var i=0;
i<4;
i++) {
if (document.referrer.indexOf(myArray[i]) > -1)
{
//–>
document.write('<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=youraccount-20&o=1&p=26&l=ur1&category=computers_accesories&banner=1SKRXV416ZYVKCEGXQR2&f=ifr" width="468" height="60" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe>');
}}
</script>

P.S., Don’t forget to change the ad code to your own ad code!

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I wonder if putting ads in iframe would effect ads shown. How does it know what keywordds or ads to show.

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@Freestuff

the ad is triggered by the calling page, not the iFrame, so the content is relevant to the page that called it!

I did not know you could show adsense in frames. Sounds like a great idea to show ads to the traffic type you want.

Never knew this was possible. Thanks for the information.

You should show your adds to as much traffic as possible, limiting adds would just your overall income.

At the last Google Adsense online live chat I asked the experts about this and they pretty much said your just hurting yourself by not showing adds as much as possible.

Though it is true the ppc is slightly higher for people coming directly from search you will lose in the end with just less clicks and less revenue at the end of the day.

The advice they gave was show as many adds as possible to make the most money.

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1. Rhys posted the following on May 1, 2009 at 11:22 am.

   @FriendTek

   Of course they would advise showing it to all, that is their vested interest. What we are advocating here is NOT showing it to social traffic that doesn’t ‘click’ because if your CTR is too low you will get SMART PRICED!

   Enough of us have tested this theory to prove it works. What is the use of going for a few more clicks from social traffic if your return per click drops to one or two cents? My returns now range from 25 cents to $2+ per click since I put this in place. Try it before you knock it. The bottom line is revenue, not clicks.

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   Reply to Rhys

very interesting info, t
hank you for sharing with us

Great post. Most people never realize how they get smart priced let alone how to stop it. I like the fact you tell them about social sites everyone thinks they help make more money but sometimes they hurt. Just shows you search traffic is always the best traffic.

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Great trick, and one that’s easy enough to implement that even I may be able to handle it

Thanks for posting this!

Lee

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This is a very good idea. higher CTR from adsense will be achieved if you hide your ads like you have outlined. Thank you for the read.

I did not know you could show adsense in frames. Sounds like a great idea to show ads to the traffic type you want.

Great post. I have to try this i get alot of image traffic and have low ctr. I seen some sites that have adsense ads for search terms that people go to site for how do they make that work. Site could be about baking but found in google for ovens and shows ads for oven not sure how they do it it seems like more people would click on the ads related to search they found site with.

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Very interesting article and idea – increase CTR!

Thanks i will have to see if this works. I know i was getting low paid ads on site and looked at ads and blocked them so far. It works good and i earn more but this sounds easier than looking at what ads all the time.

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That sounds like a good idea. I have to find some place i can use for the code that allows it. Blogger will not so i need to find a free place that lets me call the ad up and loads fast.

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I’m wondering why you prevent hiding adsense from social traffic hence it doesn’t ask money from the site owner when displaying the adsense.

I guess this would be favorable to Adwords since every click is money!

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Thanks i will have to try this code. I do see some traffic from social sites and it does not convert. This sounds like it will help click thru rate alot.

Doesn’t placing iframe around the ads put your adsense account at risk? Don’t want Adsense to terminate my account… I myself am struggling with low ctr because I get often found through image search. Contemplating on using your code. It works on a regular website and not just Blogger/Wordpress, right? Thanks for your article!

1. Rhys posted the following on August 1, 2009 at 10:24 am.

   Hi Anna -

   The ’spirit’ of the TOS is not compromised by using this iFrame, and there have been no reports of G getting upset about it.

   Use this code on any HTML page!

   Reply to Rhys

Thanks that is a good tip. I did not know you could put adsense in a frame and it would still show ads related to site.

Thanks for the codes. I have a site i used adsense on and it never paid me much. I did notice most traffic was not search engines so it sounds like that is the reason earnings where so low. I will have to try your idea and see if it helps my earnings.

@Rhys: You don’t seem to understand what Tedy was tring to make you see when he said “When I search in google using term “biznz.org” with Internet Explorer, I see the adsense here. But, if I try to search “biznz.org” in google using Mozila, I do not see the adsense here.”
This is not a keyword issue but one that has to do with the browsers. Some browsers simply don’t support the script version. I keep my fingers crossed and await a solution from Stephen Cronin, RT Cunningham or you, that makes the php version compatible with cache plug-ins.
Have a nice day and keep up the good work.

1. Rhys posted the following on August 20, 2009 at 11:33 am.

   @Udegbunam – Greetings to you, and thank you for asking about this.

   This script is DESIGNED to work for search queries, and it does, with the IE, Yahoo, and Live(Bing) search bars, in both IE and Firefox.

   When I test search for the LTK term “How to Get Listed Twice in the Top Ten SERPs” it works perfectly; I.E., Shows BizBlog » Blog Archive » How to Get Listed Twice in the Top Ten SERPs as No 1 on the SERP and when that result is clicked, the ad is displayed.

   The error here by Tedy is in the fundamental premise: “When I search in google using term “biznz.org”. It does not, and was designed not to work by typing URLs in the search bar

   The logic here is to detect focussed “search” traffic and to display relevant ads to it; but not to display ads to traffic arriving via URL: And I’m very happy that it does exactly that. The page Google lists as #1 in the SERP will be one most relevant to the Keyword being searched for; Adsense will display ads only relevant to that keyword term; the searcher will see ads pertaining only to the Key term (s)he searched for – Viola! – success.

   

   Reply to Rhys

This sounds like a great way to only shows ads when you want. I wonder why google does not have setting that lets you choose to show ads like this. Thanks i will have to try the code you made it looks good to me.

Thanks for sharing, I never thought social traffic is bad for adsense before

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Hey Rhys,

It feels good to see a lot of traffic in which social media’s traffic is also merged.

But you cannot consider as a business point of view. traffic is good, but on minutely going through every detail the real clicks are almost half in my case.

Using your programming that you’ve showed above I can get a clear picture about it.

Thanks for posting it.

WTF! I’ve been looking and get nothing from other websites. A great find here. I hope I can improve my Adsense earnings with this tip. Keep it up sir!
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Wow!!Great thought on this post with have a nice info.IT is really nice sharing….

thank you for this interesting info. i was looking for something like this.
i enjoy reading your blog
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Social sites like Stumbleupon can send you lots of traffic, but statistically it doesn’t ‘convert’ and you CTR can drop very …

Thanks for sharing, I never thought social traffic is bad for adsense before
i enjoy reading your blog