Many of Adsense units either do not populate with links or do not populate with relevant links unless the page is refreshed one or more times. Once populated correctly, the ads are highly relevant to our page content, but upon the first page view the ads are often missing or irrelevant. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a solution that insures the best ads are populated upon the first page impression?
Some of my theories: We have 3 different ad units on our pages: a text link, a very wide horizontal banner, and a vertical. I suspect, though have yet to fully test, having fewer ad units might result in the ads populating more fully upon the first page impression. Our pages are dynamically created by php scripts and most of the heavy database querying takes place before the html header. Perhaps this has an affect on the Adsense javascript? Is there any reason to place the mysql queries after the Adsense javascript placement? Our pages do not have alot of content and most of the content is excluded from Adsense's attention with "google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore)" tag, leaving only two to three sentences within the NON-ignored "google_ad_section_start" tag. Perhaps this is affecting the Adsense scripts?
Give it some more time if recently added. My observation recently shows that nowadays google ads are more relavant to your URL than your content. You can check this on http://www.short-news.info articles page ...u can see the 1st ad always abt some Info. Getting the main keywords in your URL is going to be (or already is) the major factor when it comes to SEO.
Harry, I didn't find that to be the case on your site. On your "mesothelioma" (one of the highest paying keywords) page, the ads all were about Coca-Cola collectibles???????? Google works in mysterious ways. Here's a better example of your point: http://www.leaseguide.com/Glossary/gps.htm
I have this problem with pages that a) have been crawled by MediaPartners and b) serve extremely relevant ads but ONLY AFTER refreshing the page a coule of times. Though after refreshing the page two many times, ads often revert to public service ads, but they are always relevant for at least a few refreshes. Another phenomenon is that often 1 or 2 of the 3 ad units are filled with relevant ads and the other(s) are defaulted to ads relevant to the site, but not the particular page. Could my experience as a frequent visitor be different than the ads served to my users; is there any dependency between ad selection and IP address?
I believe you meant to say more relevant to page TITLE than URL. The short-news example you cite contain generic article.php URLs, but the page TITLE's consist of the new headlines. Is that what you meant?