I am wondering if anyone knows a way to stop adsense from showing ads that are relevant to one sub domain on another sub domain. Here's my setup. I've got a TLD that is a generic enough title and I have used it as an umbrella name for several sub domains that are all completely different subjects. http://salsa.afterhours.ie is my main site that has been going for a few years now and is finally starting to turn over a level of adsense ads that it looks like I should be getting cheques once every few months. However on the other two sites I am in the process of setting up (news.afterhours.ie and movies.afterhours.ie) I am getting salsa and latin adverts all over the place.. Every site has it's own ad channel but for some reason adsense seems to be sharing all adverts as afterhours.ie ads, is there any way to "combat" that?
I have a software site, the word software is not in my domain name, in fact I picked a very unique domain name, one that I could add numerous websites (sub domains) onto the same server etc. You putting the word salsa in the domain is going to give you problems no matter what sub or mini sites you build off it. You might just as well register a new domain name, one you can build numerous sites or sub domains off, or register free blogs, one for each new site. I have 2 sub sites off my main software site, and none of them have ads from the other sites content.
How long have the new sites been up, it may take a bit of time for the adsense spider to find the most revelant ads for the page and by the sounds of it, it is defaulting to salsa. I'd give it a few weeks and see what happens.
Yeah I wonder how long they have been up... Initially google gives much more weight to domain and path than it does later on. Also how much content do these subdomains have? The less content, the more likely the domain and other factors will have a bigger influence on the ads displayed. The best way to overcome it is to give it some time and make sure the pages with ads on them have a lot of content.
Blue Gill - You miss understand, I own the afterhours.ie domain and salsa. is one of my sub domains, all the other ones don't have salsa in it at all. Everyone else Yeah I am sure waiting for the spider will make it more relevant, I have over 3000 pages on one site and several hunderd on the other but I was hoping there would be a way to get "default" ads instead of salsa ads on the other sites. It's just a pain that every sub domain of afterhours.ie gets lumped together in the catalog when there are pages that haven't been viewed by the googlebot yet. I would have hoped that setting a different channel for each ad block might have help but it hadn't made a difference yet.. Mike