Trying to follow adsense's TOS

[chkdgate]

If anyone can please guide me as to where I can and can't place google ads without breaking any rules. I had a nice 728 x 90 Leaderboard banner placed under my navbar but this seems to violate the terms by appearing in my forum's search page. How do I mod my search.php file so it won't show ads and what other page violates the terms? It would suck for me to get banned from google so early in the game after I tried so hard to get ads on my site.

Can anyone else also post their experiences of where forum owners should not be placing ads? Thank you all in advance.

[CyberAlien]

Use <if> in template like this:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index' || THIS_SCRIPT == 'forumdisplay' || THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread'"> put here adsense code </if>

so ads would be shown only on certain pages.

[kobescoresagain]

I believe the main thing that google is anal about is that you have content on each page. The content then must not be against the TOS (I think there are certain types like adult content that are) So you don't want it on pages that automatically redirect, sign on and sign off pages. These places really wouldn't help you either. A seperate suggestion, if you haven't started adding ads onto your site yet, I would suggest instead of putting your adsense code in the templates that you put it in a program like phpads and put the code from it into your templates, so if you want to change ads later away from adsense to either custom ones or maybe yahoo publisher ads you can with ease.

[RedTyger]

Just use my modification (see sig), you can exclude pages by type just like you need. All you have to do is enter the names of the scripts you want to exclude just like Cyberalian said into the settings box.

[chkdgate]

RedTyger, thank you for a great hack! I'm listing all the templates that I disabled ads from and I need anyone's opinion to see if these are necessary:
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