{"id":512,"date":"2016-07-05T21:27:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2018-09-04T23:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:47:26","slug":"how-i-make-infolinks_on-and-infolinks_off-work-on-my-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/how-i-make-infolinks_on-and-infolinks_off-work-on-my-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How I make INFOLINKS_ON and INFOLINKS_OFF work on my website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many bloggers use Infolinks<\/a> as a monetization tool for their websites. Since it is easy to implement, I had Infolinks<\/a> enabled on my website as well. <\/p>\n

Out of the box, the javascript codes from Infolinks<\/a> scan an entire webpage for opportunities to create links to advertisers' website. <\/p>\n

However, there can be areas of your website that you do not want Infolinks<\/a> to convert into links. Examples could be the paragraph that describes your page or the paragraph that talks about a product that you are selling from your website.<\/p>\n

This post describes what I did on my website to control Infolinks inText ads generation. <\/p>\n

<!--INFOLINKS_OFF--> and <!--INFOLINKS_ON--> does not work on my website<\/h2>\n

Google brought me to Infolinks' page on restricting inText ads<\/a>. That page suggests that I include the Infolinks off tag: <\/p>\n

\r\n<!--INFOLINKS_OFF--> \r\n<\/pre>\n
to turn off the infolinks script and the Infolinks on tag:<\/p>\n
\r\n<!--INFOLINKS_ON-->\r\n<\/pre>\n
to turn the Infolinks script back on again. <\/p>\n
This suggests that Infolinks script scan webpages from top to bottom; when it encounters the off tag (INFOLINKS_OFF), it will not place any inText ads until it encounters the on tag (INFOLINKS_ON) again.  <\/p>\n
As an example, suppose I want to prevent Infolinks from creating inText ads on the description of my site, my html code for my description section should be as follows:<\/p>\n
\r\n<!--INFOLINKS_OFF-->\r\n<div id="aboutTechcoilSection">\r\n\t<h2>About Techcoil<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>\r\n\tTechnologies coil to form a greater whole, thereby facilitating the exchange of information between people. \r\n\tThat was how Techcoil was named. \r\n        <\/p>\r\n\t<p>\r\n\tLaunched in 2010, Techcoil was designated to serve as a memory lane, as well as a testing ground for web related technologies.\r\n\t<\/p>\r\n\t<p>\r\n\tWe have articles to some technical problems, book recommendations for reading pleasure and self-improvement and some tools to help make some work a little bit faster.\r\n\t<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<!--INFOLINKS_ON-->\r\n<\/pre>\n
To my dismay, this does not work for me; inText ads were still appearing in my \"About Techcoil\" section.<\/strong><\/p>\n
The HTML codes that helped me control where Infolinks place inText ads for my website<\/h2>\n
My Aptana IDE highlighted to me that <\/p>\n
\r\n<!--INFOLINKS_OFF--> \r\n<\/pre>\n
and <\/p>\n
\r\n<!--INFOLINKS_ON-->\r\n<\/pre>\n
are not proper HTML comments. Hence, I decided to modify the tags by adding an extra spacing between the dashes that surround \"INFOLINKS_OFF\" and \"INFOLINKS_ON\" string literal:<\/p>\n
\r\n<!-- INFOLINKS_OFF -->\r\n<!-- INFOLINKS_ON -->\r\n<\/pre>\n
making the resultant HTML codes to turn off inText ads generation at my \"About Techcoil\" section looks like the following:<\/p>\n
\r\n<!-- INFOLINKS_OFF -->\r\n<div id="aboutTechcoilSection">\r\n\t<h2>About Techcoil<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>\r\n\tTechnologies coil to form a greater whole, thereby facilitating the exchange of information between people. \r\n\tThat was how Techcoil was named. \r\n        <\/p>\r\n\t<p>\r\n\tLaunched in 2010, Techcoil was designated to serve as a memory lane, as well as a testing ground for web related technologies.\r\n\t<\/p>\r\n\t<p>\r\n\tWe have articles to some technical problems, book recommendations for reading pleasure and self-improvement and some tools to help make some work a little bit faster.\r\n\t<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<!-- INFOLINKS_ON -->\r\n<\/pre>\n
Sure enough, once I deployed the code changes, I never saw inText ads appearing in my \"About Techcoil\" section again.<\/p>\n\n