What is this please "google_ads_frame", invisible big block up the header

class101 · #1 12-09-2007, 11:18 AM

I notice sometimes when I click my forumhome I see like an invisible block up the header and its breaking the layout but it does not happen everytime he forumhome is visited, just a few times and this block is not from me, someone has an idea why this code is sometimes up my header because when it happen the whole forum vertical position is changed, but I noted this behaviour happen really not often , but last time it happened I caught this iframe block in the rendered html source, this is the block wich I see invisible in fiorefox and then its moves the vertival forums position

PHP Code:

  <iframe width="" scrolling="no" height="" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" hspace="0" vspace="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=***removed***" name="google_ads_frame"><html><head/><body/></html></iframe>

Any help is appreciated, maybe is it a vbseo feature ? I'm running so Vb ad management 3.14 , could be this addon , any idea?

Joe Ward · #2 12-09-2007, 12:09 PM

What editor are you using in the screen shot?

class101 · #3 12-09-2007, 12:20 PM

This is Firebug excellent FF addon (probably the #1) to debug webpages, fixed so much behaviours with it

, I notice the iframe wasnt showable in the Ctrl+U html sources but Firebug caught it, however I have found the only occurence of google_ads_frame in http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js so it must have something to do with the header ads I have and maybe too much space wwithin my template source, its good to start trying I think the interesting vbseo option:

Cleanup HTML code?

Select 'Yes' to remove unnecessary whitespace characters and HTML comments from the source code of your forum pages. This increases the C2C (Content to Code) ratio and reduces page sizes, resulting in a net performance increase and reduction in bandwidth required.

NOTE: If comments (or HTML tags) within your pages are not closed correctly with their corresponding end tags, then this option could cause your pages to display incorrectly. Be sure that your templates contain error free HTML tags and code.

Just activated it, the HTML codes is very smaller like on your website, crossing fingers so it could fixe that google ads behaviour

Oleg Ignatiuk · #4 12-09-2007, 01:16 PM

This is not a vBSEO feature, perhaps you have installed a mod or template modification to display Google ads?

class101 · #5 12-09-2007, 01:24 PM

Yes I have vb Ad Management, its handy to manage ads, I'm displaying one near the logo, it looks like this in the source, the addon just place it inside a div tag

PHP Code:

  <body>


<div id="container" style="width: 912px;">
<!-- logo -->

<a name="top"></a>
<table bgcolor="#000000" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="20" align="center">
<tr>
    <td align="center"><a href="http://"><img src="http://" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
    <td align="right">
        
        <div>
            
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "";
google_ad_width = 468;//header2
google_ad_height = 60;//header2
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";//header2
google_ad_type = "image";//header2
//2007-10-11: Demibanniere_header
google_ad_channel = "1141787879";//header2
google_color_border = "000000";//header2
google_color_bg = "444444";//header2
google_color_link = "000000";//header2
google_color_text = "424242";//header2
google_color_url = "59B888";//header2
google_ui_features = "rc:10";//header2
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
            
        </div>

    </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /logo -->

dont have a clue why google places sometimes this iframe just below the <body>

class101 · #6 12-09-2007, 01:45 PM

Hmm I think I see what is wrong but not sure, I have on some page too much ads and some google links are returning HTTP 400 with some var named "undefined" then I think theses vars are blocking the iframe to work properly because there is some "undefined" var in the invisible iframe, will try removing some ads.

Oleg Ignatiuk · #7 12-09-2007, 02:16 PM

Does it work correctly if you disable that mod?

class101 · #8 12-09-2007, 02:32 PM

I think i fixed it, this is google restriction , when you exceed more than 3 google adsens links on a page , some links are then returning HTTP error 400 then its breaking the google .js in some strange behaviours like the one above, I think its fixed because before theses changes I had to click several times "Go back one page" "Go forward one page" to trigger the behaviour enough quickly and since I lowered the # of google ads on forum home from 5 to 3, I click then "Go back one page" "Go forward one page" quickly and can't trigger the behaviour again because no more 400 response I guess. I thought I was allowed to put much ads because some Themed adsense are displayed even with 3 more links but it was producing another bug then , Wwell I won't cheat on the ads number then bleh ^^
Thanks anyway for the support I was almost sure that was not coming from vbseo thats why i posted here in this offtopic section. To note to not cheat with google or they can break your site layout ^^

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