I have no idea how this has happened, obviously Google's spiders have decided that my site is not in English but in another language. I say this because all of my "Ads by Google" text-strings have been replaced by "Anuncios Google", even for the link ads. Now, I believe this to be Spanish and I also believe that a lot of my readers/visitors are not too familiar with the Spanish tongue so this could work out to be a bonus for me. "Ads by Google" is familiar to a lot of surfers and probably cause for avoiding clicking certain regions of a page. When something unrecognisable is there, then perhaps they will be more endeared to click, who knows. I noticed this last night but have not noticed any more clicks on that site. The ads I should add are still in English. The site is www.paulsquiz.com Also, my alexa rankings have dramatically risen from 6,000,000 to 60,000 which is one hell of an increase. Any ideas?
i think nobody looks at the small text, be it "ads by google" or "anuncios google", so it won't make a difference, what matters is that the ads are still in the langage of your site, ie english. way to go for the alexa rankings increase, was that correlated to an actual traffic increase?
The ads themselves are still in English! This is strange indeed, I've never seen it before. You could just mail Google, explaining it to them...
Well, I'm not exactly worried that it's happened at all, I have abided by the rules and thats fine by me, and surely by them too. All ads are still in English and some of them are so irrelevant that it's clear to even the most stupid visitor that they are ads, so no chance for someone to say that I've hidden them to catch people unaware. Just looked a lot deeper into the traffic side of things and I think there must be a link to my site on a popular blog somewhere as traffic has trippled virtually in two days, hence the Alexa rank increase.