Comments on: AdSense add Channel Name to Code

By: steven

steven — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:39:59 +0000

thanx for all this good tips!

By: Robert Oschler

Robert Oschler — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:49:04 +0000

It’s so you can trace back to the channel name from a given web page’s HTML. Before, unless you manually built a cross reference table between each channel id and channel name, you had no way easy way to know what channel(s) a page was using when looking at your web page’s HTML. You would literally have to generate ad code for every channel you had active, just to figure out the channel name the channel belonged to. This made the following tasks arduous and inconvenient:

- tracking down an improperly assigned channel
- renaming one or more channels or changing your usage of existing channels and subsequently identifying all pages that used the old channels for update purposes

Robert

By: Ken Cheung

Ken Cheung — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:39:13 +0000

When you’r copying and pasting several Adsense scripts at a time, it’s easy to accidently copy the same channel twice. With the commented channel name, you can see that you copied the wrong channel in your script. Without it, all you see is a number and it’s easy to not notice you copied the same channel twice. I’ve done that a couple of times and didn’t realize it until later. By then, the stats are messed up.

By: CypherHackz

CypherHackz — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:22:42 +0000

yea. i just found it awhile ago. maybe it is another way adsense team helping publishers to know what is the channel for the asd. Minor updates in AdSense code [CypherHackz.Net]

By: My New Choice

My New Choice — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:53:52 +0000

But if you remove it, aren’t you technically violating the terms/policies set forth by Google that you cannot edit their code?

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:03:07 +0000

Because that's a comment, rather than actual code, you should have no problem with removing it.