vbSEO removing important comments

Hi,

vbSEO correctly removes these comments :

PHP Code:

<!-- google_ad_section_start --> 


Actually, these comments are used by Google Adsense in order to better target adsense ads, so they shouldn't be removed.

Is there a way to keep these comments while still compressing the output?

Never mind, I found a workaroud...

@SEO Report:

What was the workaround?

Instead of

PHP Code:

$output = make_crawlable($output); 


I added the following two lines (note the ! char removed then restored):

PHP Code:

$output = str_replace("<!-- google_ad_section_", "<-- google_ad_section_", $output);
$output = make_crawlable($output);
$output = str_replace("<-- google_ad_section_", "<!-- google_ad_section_", $output); 


I could also replace all google comments in templates with

PHP Code:

<-- google_ad_section_ 


(without the ! char)

then add only one line after the make_crawlable() function:

PHP Code:

$output = make_crawlable($output);
$output = str_replace("<-- google_ad_section_", "<!-- google_ad_section_", $output); 


Nice workaround.

Good idea. You would definitely get a small performance saving by editing the template and doing only 1 string replacement instead of the 2.

@SEO Report:

Since many forums will be running Adsense, we updated the latest version to skip the removal of these comments.

/* NOTE: This issue has been resolved in vBSEO 2.0 Gold. */