The wonderful Drupal AsSense module received a great new update tonight. Ironically one of the notes I made on the plane was to look into whether a universal patch for hiding the currently selected AdSense ID from the user profile made sense. It probably wouldn't have made much sense. Instead I came home to find out that the AdSense module now has a great API and modules can do all sorts of things. In addition there are a plethora of options for integrating with UserPoints, setting ID's by content type or taxonomy terms. All and all an outstanding piece of work.
According to the post the download will be here. Upgrading is pretty straight forward. Remove your old AsSense module and install the new one. A visit to the admin/build/modules page will reveal that you need to enable one of the two included modules, either basic or revenue-sharing.
I've been working recently on a presentation about open source software. This great upgrade will be included as a prime example of where open source and the community behind projects like Drupal make software better than many a closed-source shop.
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Make sure you have the code
I just upgraded adsense on a client site only to discover it loses your code. Luckily he had an ad that was just pasted in and I was able to pull the code out from that so I didn't have to try and get a hold of him. So make sure you have a copy of the code before you update. :)
Michelle
Yes make sure you have the code
Great point. In case you're here because you're missing the code it *might* be possible to check the profile_values table and finding the value. That will get harry quickly unless you've got just a few codes. Along those lines it is best to upgrade and make sure it works before you remove the field from the user profile. Although in a simple configuration the profile field is unneeded you can edit the user to get the code until you delete the field.
Didn't delete
In my case I didn't delete anything. It's a single admin site with just one adsense code, no revenue sharing. All I did was upgrade the module and it blew up. I didn't delete any fields. I expected the code to still be there after the upgrade. Usually module upgrades don't delete settings and there wasn't anything in the release notes about it.
Michelle
Google Ad Sense Message Boards Fraud
Google Ad Sense is when a web site owner opens an account with Google to place advertisement on their web site. When a person clicks this advertisement, the web site owner gets an average commission of .45 cents. A web site that gets a lot of traffic, they can easily make $150,000 per month.
There are message boards claiming to be informing the public about scams being done by companies or individuals. These web sites have individuals working for them for the sole purpose of targeting companies or individuals in order to generate traffic to the web site. This method is artificially generating traffic to the web site, this is FRAUD as outlined by Google. The higher the traffic, the higher the percentage of individuals that will click onto the Google advertisements.
Additionally, Individuals post copy right information about a company on these types of web sites; this is against the policy of the Google Ad Sense program.
If you believe that you are being targeted by individuals on a particular web site; simply click the Ads by Google in the bottom right hand corner of the advertisement on the web site. You will be taken to a Google page, click onto: Report a policy violation regarding the site or ads you just saw.
File a report and the Google Fraud Department will investigate.