Google Ads

[Lokesh R]

I would like to check on the work around for page advertised by google analytical or other advertise vendor before reaching the actual landing page.

FYI, currently we block ads from our proxy, but some search result will return page which consist the ads header before reaching the actual page. In this case, the page will be blocked totally

 

 

[fi-da]

When you block Web Ads/Analytics category I recommend to exclude http.response.code=302, so that advertising sites that are just used for redirects to the actual page are not blocked. Of course this won't work for advertising pages that redirect via Javascript or "meta http-equiv=refresh" in the HTML header, as Google does. For that reason we also excluded https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk from blocking. You should check which URL Google is currently using for their advertising redirects on the search results page.

[Lokesh R]

It showing bleow redirect AD when i search or access the original URL.

http://clickserve.dartsearch.net/link/click?lid=43700033491513935&ds_s_kwgid=58700004082052124&&ds_e_adid=317897947668&ds_e_matchtype=search&ds_e_device=c&ds_e_network=g&&ds_url_v=2&ds_dest_url=https://www.aig.sg/?&placement=&network=g&loc_physical_ms=9062531&store_code=&device_model=&loc_interest_ms=&albert_targetid=kwd-11630281&albert_campaignid=1410694231&product_country=&feeditemid=&device=c&albert_keyword=aig&merchant_id=&product_id=&albert_category=&matchtype=e&product_partition_id=&product_channel=&albert_creativeid=317897947668&product_language=&albert_agid=55867907499&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1rqstduX4AIVkYiPCh231APfEAAYASAAEgIlDvD_BwE 

[fi-da]

Hello Lokesh,

this URL is using a HTTP 301 redirect to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS. So you'd have to exclude http.response.code=301 from your Web Ads/Analytics block as well.

 

<Proxy>
category="Web Ads/Analytics" condition=!Ads-Exception FORCE_DENY

define condition Ads-Exception
    url.domain=https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk
    http.response.code=301
    http.response.code=302 
end

Of course this is just a minimal example, you can exclude 301 and 302 redirects in your VPM policy.

[Ramkumar P]

Hi Fi-da/ Team,

The above method doesnt help us to resolve this issue.

still user could see the Ad pages when accessing sites.

Please advise.

 

Thanks,

Ram.

[fi-da]

What do you mean by "user could see the Ad pages when accessing sites"? My example code is specifically to allow users to visit those Google ads on the search result page.

If you need detailed advice on configuring a policy I recommend to open a support case.