Frequently Asked Questions

Last updated May 19, 2009. Created by jcnventura on May 19, 2009.
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Questions

1. Ads are not showing
2. I'm using the [adsense:...] tag, but the script HTML shows in the page

Answers

Ads are not showing

There are many reasons why this can be happening:

1. You're still logged in as admin user (the module doesn't show ads for the site administrator on purpose)
2. Make sure that you haven't disabled the ads or are in test mode in the module settings
3. Sometimes Google itself refuses to show ads in your site. Sometimes it's because you've been banned, others it is because the AdSense spider hasn't crawled your site yet.. In the second case, all you can do is wait. If after a few days ads are still not showing, login to your AdSense account and see if you have any messages from Google.
4. You haven't followed all of Google's rules. They will send (snail mail) you a card with a PIN that you must enter. You must select a payment method; if it is a bank account, they will make a small deposit and you must find the amount and enter that.

As a debugging help, copy the complete text of the Ad code from Google and put it in its own block.. If the ads appear in that block, try to compare the HTML source of your pages and compare the AdSense script code generated by the module with the one provided by Google. If that still doesn't help you, please create an issue in the module's issue queue and provide a public URL to your site so that we can take a look at it.

I'm using the [adsense:...] tag, but the script HTML shows in the page

There's a known bug in the HTML corrector filter in early versions of Drupal 6 (at least upto 6.12 and possible later versions). When both the adsense and the HTML corrector are enabled for any given content type, the module issues a warning that it's not a good idea.. If you're seeing HTML for the ad code and not the ad, make sure that that content type doesn't have the HTML corrector filter enabled.