What’s the secret to Adsense you ask. Having the code run properly of course, but sometimes that can harder than you might think. In fact, I didn’t even realize mine wasn’t 100% operational and neither did you unless you loaded this site with Internet Explorer.

When I did just that, I saw that every post after the 3rd, which is the Adsense limit, had large ugly “the webpage cannot be found” error messages. Clearly Bill Gates was to blame. After all not only did my Mozilla Foxfire browser not have this problem, even the Netscape browser which utilizes the Internet Explorer engine was 404 free.

Or so I thought. While it’s true there were no error messages in Foxfire or Netscape, there were equally large blank spaces and neither of these is a good thing. Bill Gates was off the hook–this time.

So began the endless (3 day) search for a solution to my dilemma. I noticed many sites also suffered from this design flaw but found few answers. Some forum poster suggest complicated ‘if condition’ suggestions or php loops, which is no an option for blogger/blogspot users. Then salvation Adsense unveiled its new code, surely this would resolve all the errors. Nope that didn’t work either. Was this a hopeless search for answers? (Obviously not, I just toldya it lasted 3 days -pay attention!)

Then things started to click. First, I noticed if you insert the code for Adsense referrals, problem solved. Except I wanted the Adsense for content code as does not require sign-ups and thus pays better, albeit not much better.

Long story short, the solution proved to deceptively simple: hodgepodge! Combine your new Adsense code with an old one plus this very important alteration to the ad_format: “_0ads_al”. Finally the endless search had ended. Without further ado here’s what I call the SALVATION CODE, just enter your publisher id and get your ad_slot # from the new code Google gives.

<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”;
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_slot = “xxxxxxxxxx”;
google_ad_format = “728x90_0ads_al”;
google_ad_channel = “”;
google_color_border = “ffffff”;
google_color_bg = “ffffff”;
google_color_link = “191919″;
google_color_text = “000000″;
google_color_url = “000000″;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>

Post Postscript: How does this work? Don’t ask me, I’m no programmer. But when it comes tenacious-osity I make Moveon.org look opened-minded. I also have certain undisclosed ways of making the internets talk.

Disclaimer: Lame News doesn’t use or condone the use of torture on the internets.