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Old 06-20-2008, 02:45 PM
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Default Adding Destination URL causes duplicate windows to open

We've recently started moving away from Adsense to other advertisers, and what we're finding is if we provide a destination URL GAB opens *two* windows instead of one? If we set the advertising snippet to *not* open in a new window, then the ad opens in the original browser but still opens a new tab/browser which is blank.

I tried to find anything like this issue in the GAB forum here, but my Searchfu seems to be weak today .

We're currently running GAB 2.0.2 on vB 3.6.8 pl2. We'll be moving to vB 3.7 p1, but we've got a ton of other things that are being done at the same time as that change, and all the testbed trials and tweaking isn't done yet.

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Old 06-20-2008, 03:08 PM
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Hmm, haven't heard of that before. Is it an HTML banner ? Could it be the HTML advertising snippet that is opening the new window? What links appears in the browser address bar for the wanted and unwanted windows?
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It's not the redirect in the html that 's causing the problem, it's happening whether the html there is set to open a new window or not. Or it was... Susan was working with it a bit ago and it stopped before I could get a copy of the url to post. If it shows up again I'll followup on it here.

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Here's what the url for the extra blank page looks like:
http://www.ikeafans.com/forums/gab_r...ad&forumid=243
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That link is for tracking clicks. Without seeing the HTML advertising snippet, the only thing I can surmise is that the HTML advertising snippet opens its own new window, and because you are tracking clicks, GAB also opens a new window. The window from GAB would be blank if there is no Destination URL set for the ad and you are tracking clicks.
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