Hi,
I noticed that when an ad is disabled for a device type, let say the header ad is disabled for Phones but enabled for Desktop and Tablet, the phone ad is still loading. Its not visible but the ad call is being made.
This falsely increases ad impressions for ads that shouldn’t be running. Can this be fixed?
I was looking at reporting and was wondering why an ad was still recording impressions when the ad was disabled in the theme panel. A quick look at inspect element and you can see the ad is still being called.
Hi
The theme does not load the ad-code when the ad it’s disabled for a specific device, it loads only the script which check the devices for which the that ad must be displayed. You can check the differences here: http://screencast.com/t/Ypcl909j – http://screencast.com/t/a0WKu0MCf
Thanks!
Hi Andrei,
There must be an issue with the theme panel then.
Looking at the Google Debug tool and Inspect Element you can still see the ad being called.
Please see screenshots.
http://www.screencast.com/t/sksUJQBhW
http://www.screencast.com/t/NKgZELuKWoM
http://www.screencast.com/t/5vu5RpOSS
My staging site is here: http://goo.gl/Rrko4I
Can you take a look and let me know what you find?
Thanks
Hi
There is no bug with theme’s ad’s system at the moment. Note that the options which enable/disable ads for a specific device works only for ad-sense code. In your case the code used for header ad is not an ad-sense code: http://screencast.com/t/nFZ0hmU8ja5u and the disable option does not work for it. For other ads the theme load the same code for all devices and use media queries to control their’s styles.
Please check carefully my previous reply, I’ve pointed there how theme works when google ad-sense code it’s used. The does not call the ad-spot if the ad it’s disabled for a specific device, but again this works only with ad-sense code. To have this working with other type of ads are required some customizations in theme’s ad system, so the theme to detect the new ad code and apply the same behavior for it as for ad-sense code.
Thanks!
Ah, I didn’t realize it was just for adsense code. Makes sense. Thanks for the clear explanation.
