How to Delete (Show/Hide) AdSense Unit

December 22, 2007

This article will show you How to Show/Hide AdSense Unit from Manage Ads page the quick and easy way. It may sound lame to teach people what's already there, but I know there are many people out there who don't notice the differences. Previously I wrote How to Delete AdSense Ad unit when the system was still new and raw.

Recently Google AdSense has updated its Manage Ads page and published a post Manage Ads gives you more ad functionality. Click on the following image for the full version:

How to Show AdSense Units

Now, you can clearly see that there are 2 checkboxes on the left hand side:

View your active AdSense units below. You can also import your old AdSense code to create saved AdSense units. Learn more...

[ ] Show inactive AdSense units [?]
[ ] Show hidden AdSense units [?]

Those check boxes allow you to view the inactive or hidden AdSense units.

How to Hide AdSense Units

Of course, it would be silly if you can show the hidden units but can't hide it. Google is smart enough to recognize the need and hence make the function for you. Previously you have to follow How to Delete AdSense unit in order to hide an ad unit. Now you don't have to.

How? You can see on the right hand side that there is a Hide link, which allow you to hide the AdSense unit on that row without actually deleting it. This is to prevent the code on some page you "might" have from breaking the AdSense system for showing unavailable ad units.

Tags: ad-unit, AdSense, how-to