If my page is dynamically generated and I've no hyperlink pointing the page, will adsense appears according to the page content?

I ask this question, because I have a search box which can query my database and I wish relevant ads to be shown on the result pages.

Thank you for advice.

They should do it's a different crawler for adsense. Try it and see is the best way.

Thanks for reply.

Basically, my page consists of a form which call a cgi program. The submitted terms can be anything, but the database will generate a specific output. I wonder adsense crawler may not have a way to find the specific content. Anyway, I will try.

Adsense didn't work for my ASP generated pages (just public serveice ads appeared), until I use both static HTML (with related keywords) and ASP on the page.

Well there is no way that AdSense doesn't work on dynamic pages I have few sites that are all dynamic and adsense works well the only problem is if you use javascript POST to go to a page (common in ASP).

How about if a dynamic page which does not have any hyperlink from elsewhere?
Will adsense appears right Ads upon the page's generation?

the page doesn't need links. the javascript calls the adsense crawler to the page.

Originally Posted by leunga

How about if a dynamic page which does not have any hyperlink from elsewhere?
Will adsense appears right Ads upon the page's generation?

The problem is that adsense spider must get exactly the same content as visitor does if you want it to determine your page theme and choose corresponding ads. If your visitor submits the query via POST then the crawler IS called to the page, but he gets a page with almost no relevant info. You should either submit the query via GET or you should display some relevant info by default, when a page was accessed without parameters,

Anyway, there's a point in AdSense TOS. You are not permitted to place AdSense on search results page (still many people do it and stay up and running).

Do you mean that GET is OK because the Adsense Crawler will be able to use the parameter?

If I use POST, the parameter will be lost and Adsense Crawler will only access the page without parameter. Because of this, I have to put on some default content in order to produce relevant Ads.

My last question is that my search box is actually generating unique information, but not search results of other content. Will this validate TOS of adsense?

I can't see how get or post matters. The crawler is only going to arrive on the page once it has been generated. It certainly isn't going to submit the form.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

I can't see how get or post matters. The crawler is only going to arrive on the page once it has been generated. It certainly isn't going to submit the form.

Let me explain how GET|POST matters. The process of getting the relevan ad to the page is as following:
1. The user inputs some query and hits Search.
2. The browser sends the request and gets the page with some contents
3. The AdSense javascript on this page calls spider telling him the URL of the page
4. The spider comes, grabs the page and analyzes it thus selecting the relevant ads
Now what will happen if the JS tells the spider the URL like http://www.mysite.com/myscript.cgi? The spider will see a page with default content because it didn't POST a request there. But the user will see quite different page because he did! So ads displayed will correspond with contents of default page, not with what the user has requested. And if the request was sent by user via GET then the JS will pass the spuider the URL like http://www.mysite.com/myscript.cgi?q...ss+destruction, so both user and spider will see the same content and the spider will be able to select the appropriate ads to display.

That's what I was talking about.

Excellent point. Just excuse me for having a stupid day

Hmm, apparently you can't say mass here, lucky it's not a religion forum


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would using the "ads in framed page" option have any effect?

Originally Posted by howardroark

would using the "ads in framed page" option have any effect?

It's obvious that you should use the "ads in framed page" flag only if you display adsense on page that is loaded inside the frame. Checking this flag affects only what URL the adsense is displayed on. If the flag is OFF (normally) then javascript passes to the crawler the same url as you visitor sees in his adddress bar. If it is ON then javascript passes to the crawler the url that was actually used to acces the page inside frame.

Thanks mtishetsky Your tips are very valuable. Thanks again

its not whether the page is dynamic or not, all my pages are dynamic, its whether the page has a unique URL, google indexes pages by url, if each of your pages has unique URL google can indentify them and show the ads the relative to the content the spider picked up when it crawled your site. Thats why google doen't like ads on search result pages - all to often they have no unique url and also google can't spider them well so can't serve content suitable ads

I hope I'm not pointing you to a very simple thing that you may already took care of. Did you make sure that the title of your page is correctly generated according to your page content? I think Google Adsense will rely heavily on that.

hope this will help.

It's against Google TOS to add AdSense ads to your search results pages anyway. I know of 3-4 directory owners that did this and their AdSense accounts were terminated. If Google terminates your account any money owed you is also forfeited.

Originally Posted by WebSavvy

It's against Google TOS to add AdSense ads to your search results pages anyway. I know of 3-4 directory owners that did this and their AdSense accounts were terminated. If Google terminates your account any money owed you is also forfeited.

Forgive me for jumping in here and feel free to ignore me because I can barely understand what you all are talking about. But if I understand correctly your site has it's own search function and you add adsense to the results page you are in violation of the TOS, right? Can't you get around that by using a Google CSE? I use a Google CSE to search my blogs and it's attached to my publisher account. When someone searches my blog(s) they get relevant results and ads are serviced on the results page. If the ads that show up on the results page are clicked I get credited.

Is there something about the kinds of site you all are talking about that prohibits using and monetizing a Google CSE and get the same results without breaking the TOS?

I can't find any reference to not being allowed to display ads on search result pages - can anyone point me to the relevent section in the Google TOS
Thanks