Monday, February 27, 2006

Can't click links in Google Adsense?

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When it comes to earning a buck from online advertisement on your site, almost everyone turns to Google Adsense. It's nice, it's non intrusive (for the most part), and better yet - it's free. It's no sweat to put it on your site, it's customizable and blends in...

However, even if it looks good, it does not mean you'll start getting clicks right away, even if your visitors are willing. Why? There are certain peculiarities with links on a top of alpha transparent backgrounds in IE. Sometimes such links become non-clickable, the behavior described by Holger Rüprich and Justin Koivisto. There is a workaroud also suggested, but it works for links, which are already on the page. The way Adsense works is dynamic, links are produced by means of javascript. So the workaround does not work on them .

The solution would be to script a fix using DOM: pull elements of a particular type (A) and then apply a position style. I am working on this fix now. Once done, I'll publish it here. So stay tuned!

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