Adsense PSA on home page?

Discussion in 'Placement / Reviews / Examples' started by amirams, Dec 11, 2005.

  1. #1
    Here's the situation:

    - I have a site, say www.mysite.com
    - The home page of the site is default.aspx
    - default.aspx is served automatically by IIS when someone types the domain name only
    - In this case (when someone just types www.mysite.com), adsense displays a PSA without any targeting
    - When the same page is accessed using the full URL (www.mysite.com/default.aspx), the page contains targeted ads

    Any ideas how to solve this?
     
    amirams, Dec 11, 2005 IP
  2. wrmineo

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    Try placing some Google recommended tags before and after some content that you want to specify for emphasis to help generate more relevant ads maybe:

    <!-- google_ad_section_start -->
    content
    <!-- google_ad_section_end -->
     
    wrmineo, Dec 11, 2005 IP
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    How long have the PSAs been there? If it's been a day or two, then patience will usually prevail. Otherwise, look into stop words. Here's a list of stop words I put together.

    http://www.kbcafe.com/adwords/?guid=20050929081147

    Remove any stop words, then wait a few days (as much as a week).

    If the problem persists, then you want to redirect the http://www.mysite.com/ to http://www.mysite.com/defaults.aspx.

    You can do this by checking the Request.Url and call Response.Redirect.
    Hope this helps,
     
    randymorin, Dec 11, 2005 IP
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    It would also help others help you if you posted the URL for an examination of the site / code to ensure there isn't another underlying issue.
     
    wrmineo, Dec 11, 2005 IP
  5. amirams

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    Maybe I didn't explain myself clearly. I am talking about the home page of the site. The SAME page shows a PSA when launced with the domain name only (no page name) and shows targeted ads when the full URL is used (page name included). This has been going on since I launched Adsense over a week ago.

    It seems as if Adsense either does not crawl the home page or cannot resolve it when using the domain name without a specific page name.

    Changing the content of the page (special tags, etc.) won't help because the same page shows ads when launced with the full URL.

    I don't post the URL because the site is not in English (which doesn't affect targeting).
     
    amirams, Dec 11, 2005 IP