Unblocking a JS ad

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Google Tools seems to think that I am blocking a Google JS ad. My robots.txt is empty so how can I be blocking JS?

Thanks in advance

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robots.txt is just for telling search engines what folders/files to not spider. It could be your network that is blocking it, if you are in a corporate or government environment.

:slight_smile:

3

Thanks for the input Wolfshade. I’m not in a corporate or government environment - I’m hosted by a UK commercial company - Virgin Media.
Googlebot sees everything on my page - http://www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com/

except the Adsense ad. Very strange.

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Not so strange, I don’t see it either. Your mark-up is wonky.

  <p>  <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<!-- newresp -->
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
     style="display:block"
     data-ad-client="ca-pub-4966292466638725"
     data-ad-slot="7095805411"
     data-ad-format="auto"></ins>
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script></p>

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodsgoldenage.com%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

63 Errors, 56 warning(s)

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Thank you very much, Mittineague. I’ve got work to do!

6

Well I’ve fixed all the errors, and have just 2 warnings now, but the adsense ad is still blocked - Google Fetch just doesn’t see it. Can everyone else see the adsense ad just below my header?
http://www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com/

Could my firewall be the problem?

Thanks in advance.

7

This is what I see in Chrome.

954×707 67.2 KB

Seemed to take a long time to load in Firefox but did eventually appear.

8

Thanks PaulOB. That’s as it should be, but for some reason ‘Fetch as Google’ doesn’t see the advert, and gives the reason as ‘Blocked’.