[Andreas]

Originally Posted by Cornolio

however i wouldn't disable access to all spiders. only adsense bot

If the adsense bot can't spider anything, Adsense will not show anything - simple, heh?

I've got a question about adsense too.
I have placed adsense blocks in the Forum (navbar), as well as in the archive.
But I noticed that for the same thread I do get relevant ads in the archive, but not in the real thread.
Now as most users understandably don't use the archive that is not that good.
IMHO the problem is that the adsense bot sees too many irrelevant text (Navation Buttons, Menus, Usernames and so on) and thus gets irritated.

I though about creating a "ultra light" style that only shows the raw content (Board Titel, Forum Titel, Forum Description, Thread Title, Message Text), then detect the Adsense Bot and assign this style.
So the bot would only see the really relevant content, and it could reduce bandwidth usage.

Basically this would be moreless the same as the archive, but it would take the same setting (posts per page, date cutoff, etc.) as the real threads.

What do you think about this idea?
Would it violate the TOS for adsense?