| disable google related from showing on my website | InIdaho | 8/5/11 4:22 PM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES My site's URL (web address) is: http://inidaho.com Description (including timeline of any changes made): A google related bar pops up at the bottom of sites now and is part of the google 7.1 toolbar. |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | Kumar01 | 8/12/11 6:05 AM | I have visited your site 3 different browsers and I didn't seen any pop up ads. |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | curnan | 8/17/11 11:48 AM | Google Related pops up our competitor's website and we want to stop this. Why would we spend time, money and effort to bring people to a specific page on our site only to have Google lead them away to our competitor. How do I stop Google Related fr |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | InIdaho | 8/17/11 12:04 PM | Found the answer. Hope it helps others. create a style iframe.grelated-iframe { display: none; } Thanks to this website http://harrybailey.com/2011/08/hide-google-related-bar-on-your-website-with-css/ |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | usmbox | 9/1/11 2:15 AM | curnan raised a point: why should we pay adwords to bring people to our websites, only to find Google lead them away with "google Related" to competitors websites. This is definitive not right, and could be seen as a hijack attempt by Google. At leas |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | johnraj | 9/2/11 1:03 PM | thanks Inldaho, I found the same google related bar at the bottom of my site when i use IE8. Cannot believe this is legal. Would love to see similar recomendations at the bottom of http://google.com to bing or any other search engine. if you think google d |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | lunarstudio | 9/4/11 4:12 AM | This is outrageous. I spent all this time designing my site so they could run advertisements on top of my website without my permission? And plus, they're steering potential competitors AWAY from my website? I hope they get sued. This is criminal an |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | lunarstudio | 9/6/11 7:36 PM | I took the time to write about my concerns regarding Google Related on my blog. Please read it and comment. If you agree with me, please "+1", "like", or link the article so that it gets the attention this issue deserves before their program spirals |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | BLEAVELLB | 9/8/11 6:39 AM | Here is how you disable the popup: http://bob2thebone.com/post.aspx?10-Webmasters-How-To-Disable-The-Google-Related-Popup |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | Soulfire86 | 9/22/11 7:14 AM | To update everyone, Google got keen to the CSS hide method that people put out there. They have now removed the class name from the iframe, so that it cannot be accessed. And all of the inline CSS has the !important; attribute to override anything. I |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | InIdaho | 9/22/11 7:34 AM | My pages are still not showing related bar. Maybe it came up in the hearing. |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | lunarstudio | 9/22/11 7:43 AM | You might want to try installing the Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer, empty the browser cache and see what happens. |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | seoegghead | 11/18/11 1:04 PM | Try this: http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/google/how-to-disable-google-related-with-jquery-p859.html I suspect Google could break it again, but this works. I don't know how long this feature will last. It's upsetting a lot of people. |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | LoisO'Toole | 1/24/12 9:19 AM | Will Google penalize us for using the work around? I dont want my organic to get hurt in this process. |
| Re: disable google related from showing on my website | Sipylus | 2/10/12 10:08 AM | If you have a flash site, it will not show over the page. Look at http://vynl-nyc.com and you will see what we mean. |