What is Ad Slot ID and how to use it? [#310915]

"Ad Slot ID field is required." when submitting a block. Don't know what to do. Have never encountered this before with adsense.

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kbahey commented 19 September 2008 at 21:25

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Don't understand Ad Slot ID

» What is Ad Slot ID and how to use it?

Hi Robert

Long time no see ...

Google introduced a new way to do ads in Oct 2007. It is called Managed Ads.
you use this feature, the adsense code on your site only has 4 fields, a height and width, so that the inital iframe dimensions do not mess up the site's appearance, your publisher ID, and a slot ID.

Everything else is managed from your adsense account. This includes color, channel and everything else.

You should find a tab in your account that is called Managed ads.

The versions of the adsense module 5.x-3.x and 6.x-1.x support this new code.

You need to create ad slots in your google account and then paste the slot id into the block.

I bet Google will yank the old way of doing ads at some point, once enough pubishers get on the managed ads bandwagon. Just like they ditched referrals.