01.28.07

4 Ways to get rid of Adsense Public Service Ads

Posted in New to PPC, Affiliate Marketing at 3:26 pm by PPC Guy

is a great way to monetize your website by displaying ads. Google usually finds relevant ads to display on your site, however sometimes Google doesn’t find an ad to display. When this occurs Google displays a general ad called a . There are a couple reasons you want to get rid of Public Service Advertisements on your site.

  1. You don’t get paid for clicks to
  2. Public Service Advertisments don’t carry the same look as your other Google ads. This distracts visitors and creates a bad impression of your site.

There are a few ways to get rid of these ads.

Image Replacement

Paste in the URL of an image in the field in your Adsense code. This can be an image that you’ve created and resides on your site or any other image on the Internet. For example, to serve an image named alternativead.gif residing on your web site, you’d provide a URL like http://www.ppcsearchenginemarketing.org/images/alternativead.gif This is an example of what your Adsense code would look like

Alternative Advertiser Ad

Provide the URL of a web page that contains another advertiser’s ads. This web page should only have the snippet of code that your alternative advertiser provides. For example, the file will not have any HTML, Body, P or other HTML tags. There are many advertising sites that could serve as an alternative ad provider. Here are a few:

HTML color code

You also have to option of not displaying any ads at all. You can do this by providing the hexadecimal HTML color code of your page’s background or the background color of that particular area where you ad normally appears. For example, if your page had a background color of #FFFFFF, you would place #FFFFFF in the field.
Collapse your ad

Google provides an HTML file you can download collapses your ad so that it doesn’t show in the event you’d otherwise have seen a public service ad. For instructions and a link to download the file, visit https://google.com/adsense/faq#basics13.
Whichever method you implement will be a much better solution that displaying .