Using the HTTP Referer to personalise your pages http://www.yackyack.co.uk/scripting/using-the-http-referer-to-personalise-your-pages/ A Search Marketing Blog Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:09:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Using the HTTP Referer to personalise your pages http://www.yackyack.co.uk/scripting/using-the-http-referer-to-personalise-your-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-1756 robwatts Wed, 09 May 2007 12:13:49 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/2007/02/21/using-the-http-referer-to-personalise-your-pages/#comment-1756 Hi No not at all, you are misunderstanding what I am saying. You'd never show both sets of ads at the same time. You can participate in as many ad programs as you like. The toc's just say that you cant output both on the same page at the same time, the issue of straightjacketing aside, its nothing to do with google or yahoo or whoever how you choose to program your website. Nothing in this breaks the tos. In fact there is a strong effeciency argument that says its a waste of time and resources even outputting the script code for the bots anyway. Hi

No not at all, you are misunderstanding what I am saying.

You’d never show both sets of ads at the same time.

You can participate in as many ad programs as you like. The toc’s just say that you cant output both on the same page at the same time, the issue of straightjacketing aside, its nothing to do with google or yahoo or whoever how you choose to program your website. Nothing in this breaks the tos.

In fact there is a strong effeciency argument that says its a waste of time and resources even outputting the script code for the bots anyway.

]]> Using the HTTP Referer to personalise your pages http://www.yackyack.co.uk/scripting/using-the-http-referer-to-personalise-your-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-1754 lisi Wed, 09 May 2007 11:20:55 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/2007/02/21/using-the-http-referer-to-personalise-your-pages/#comment-1754 so .. this is not out of TOC? if you run google ads on page and then yahoo ads page ... when google adsbot came ... it'll find that you ran other ads. thanks. so .. this is not out of TOC?
if you run google ads on page and then yahoo ads page … when google adsbot came … it’ll find that you ran other ads.
thanks.

]]> Using the HTTP Referer to personalise your pages http://www.yackyack.co.uk/scripting/using-the-http-referer-to-personalise-your-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-538 robwatts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:53:50 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/2007/02/21/using-the-http-referer-to-personalise-your-pages/#comment-538 Well...no not quite, what you are referring to with regard to geo targetting would be IP delivery which is a different thing completely. The only similarity would be that the user would be served content relative to their needs determined by their location. The http_referer method treats everybody the same, provided that they arrived from the same *domain* or domains you specified. In terms of adsense,the inclusion of targetted keywords wouldn't actually work. The media bot wouldn't see this content (bots dont provide a referal string) so it wouldn't be of any use for relevancy. As far as being blackhat and whatnot, I think long to medium term (with things like you suggest at least) It just isn't worth the aggravation. Sure there are things you could do, but it would be a delicate path to tread and not one I'd recommend on ones flagship!  ;) Well…no not quite, what you are referring to with regard to geo targetting would be IP delivery which is a different thing completely. The only similarity would be that the user would be served content relative to their needs determined by their location. The http_referer method treats everybody the same, provided that they arrived from the same *domain* or domains you specified.

In terms of adsense,the inclusion of targetted keywords wouldn’t actually work. The media bot wouldn’t see this content (bots dont provide a referal string) so it wouldn’t be of any use for relevancy.

As far as being blackhat and whatnot, I think long to medium term (with things like you suggest at least) It just isn’t worth the aggravation. Sure there are things you could do, but it would be a delicate path to tread and not one I’d recommend on ones flagship!  ;)

]]> Using the HTTP Referer to personalise your pages http://www.yackyack.co.uk/scripting/using-the-http-referer-to-personalise-your-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-532 Lyndoman Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:30:27 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/2007/02/21/using-the-http-referer-to-personalise-your-pages/#comment-532 I presume this would be the way to go for geo targeting. Say a site had and affiliate offer, one from UK, one from the US. A redirect could send the browser to the relevant offer. Not used this yet, but it's only a matter of time. Hmmm, could be useful to "include" targeted keywords to, ahem, massage adsense relevancy. For example if someone came from Google looking for blue widgets, an extra bit of content could be added to do with blue widgets. How far to push it before Google slaps wrists is the thing. If one were to set up some blackhat sites for purely, ahem, research purposes one could do very creative things the HTTP Referer. Of course one only has to dip into the syndk8 forums to see what can go on. I presume this would be the way to go for geo targeting. Say a site had and affiliate offer, one from UK, one from the US. A redirect could send the browser to the relevant offer.

Not used this yet, but it’s only a matter of time.

Hmmm, could be useful to “include” targeted keywords to, ahem, massage adsense relevancy. For example if someone came from Google looking for blue widgets, an extra bit of content could be added to do with blue widgets.

How far to push it before Google slaps wrists is the thing. If one were to set up some blackhat sites for purely, ahem, research purposes one could do very creative things the HTTP Referer. Of course one only has to dip into the syndk8 forums to see what can go on.

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