Topic: Vertical Google AdSense Banner Not Always Displaying

[popupsteve]

I’m having an issue with the displaying of vertical Google AdSense banners. I wanted to display three 160 X 600 banners down the right side of the forum page. My SMF forum uses SimplePortal so I created a block for the right side where the banners will display. I tested this all as Admin, setting the block to only show to the Admin. Got everything to work the way I wanted and changed the block so it would now show to Admin and Guests. On my forum, Guests see a lot more ads than Members see and these vertical banners are meant to be seen only by guests (this is an incentive for people to register “see fewer ads”).

Viewing as Admin, everything looks fine, three vertical Google AdSense banners. But when I go to the site in Guest mode (from the same and from different computers/browsers), only one vertical  Google AdSense banner displays, although the other two appear to be there, they are just blank (see example below). I then set the block to be viewable to members as a test and that worked as it should. But it still won’t show properly to Guests.

Any thoughts as to what may be happening?

Guests Google AdSense Example

Example of how the vertical Google AdSense banners appear to a Guest. The area has been highlighted so the missing banners can be seen.

Members Google AdSense Example

Example of how the vertical Google AdSense banners appear to a Member. The area has been highlighted so that the area the banners occupy can be seen.

Admin Google AdSense Example

Example of how the vertical Google AdSense banners appear to the Admin. The area has been highlighted so that the area the banners occupy can be seen.

[[SiNaN]]

I can't really think of a reason why that might be happening. I may be able to make some guesses if I could see the page source myself though. Is that possible?

[popupsteve]

I think it may have been a limitation by Google placed on the number of their ads which can be displayed per page.

[♦ Ninja ZX-10RR ♦]

As far as I know, it is. I don't know why they placed it *only* on mobile but they seem to have some kind of rules about their numbers. As for where they are explaining it... Good luck finding it here, sorry but I am really not going to read all of that to answer accurately. However I opened a site recently and it was showing a similar error when displaying it on mobile, so I think you pretty much nailed it.

Regards

[popupsteve]

Thanks

[♦ Ninja ZX-10RR ♦]

Seeing your reply I'll go ahead and mark this as solved, feel free to post again if you need

By the way, I hope your profile is not up to date, because it says you are running SMF 2 RC3, which is several years back and full of security holes. Also SimplePortal 2.3.2 is rather old and buggy, I'd suggest you to update both asap unless you just forgot to update your profile here on sp.net.

Regards

[popupsteve]

Thanks, just updated my profile. DBAD