When I logged into my AS account today I was floored when I saw only half of the impressions I got yesterday and only a fourth of clicks. I looked at my server logs and the server never went down, I've actually received more hits today than yesterday, which tells me AS has been the problem. I go to my site and all the AS ads are missing and the text links are showing that horrible "Show ads for" form. Anyone else getting this? Anyone know why this would happen? I heard that a bunch of Google's services have crapped out today, is there some problem with their database or something??
There isn't anything wrong here, either. Maybe you posted something that tripped Google's banned words list. Check your content. Or post your link and we can look and tell you if you posted something that Google frowns on.
The site is http://www.babeaudit.com . I'm not sure it's anything I posted... after someone called out a stop word in another thread I started I've watched what I write... Does it matter if someone doesn't type in the "www." part? I've noticed when I simply type babeaudit.com all the ads are gone at the text links has the "Show ads for" form. If I add the "www." to that exact same page, everything's fine. If it does matter I'll have to figure out how to brute-force append "www." either thru PHP or Apache.
Curious. I've never known not having the "www" in the address would have such a drastic effect. Maybe your site hasn't been indexed enough by Google that it doesn't know the difference, and right now it only knows you with the www part? I'm just guessing. Seems like a major effect for something so minor that happens all the time. /shrug
on your homepage you have public ads displayed means you have at least one "wrong" word or a wrong form of a word ( plural isntead of singular, or vv ) anything that has to do with good looking babes ( = your word on start page ) and their attributes and body anatomy is subject to strict word filtering in adsense ... ( of course all other topicas as well ) a test in DP "Adsense sandbox" may eventually help you to find which words while Googlebot since years seems to ignore the meta tag keywords there still might be a chance that google mediabot does use the keyword-metatag, since they often provide relevant ads within seconds or minutes after a new page is published and browser-loaded the first time ... looking at your meta-tag keywords, I see a few words that might trigger a public ad instead of a regular ad the same might again happen on individual posts every now and then depending on the choice of your words to give you a precise idea to start with take your word b o o b s ( out of your meta-keywords ) in the sandbox then the word breast and then the latter plural you see 2 out of above 3 trigger no ads = public ads only 1 above word triggers real ads also see what the word babe(s) on your start pags does to your ads ... both singular and plural one single such word on an entire page may be enough to trigger the entire page for public ads ( my experience in my blog and a very few other pages ) hence you wil be "walking" on a string all your editorial life long on your site falling on one side = site too boring = no visitors the other side = no $ from adsense but more visitors/traffic may be life as publishers would be easier being a girl writing about guys
Wow, I had no idea AS was that sensitive. I guess my censoring/self-editing is in vain. I find it odd, though, for about a week I was getting higher and higher revenue every day and then all of a sudden it's cut down to almost a third. There must be some kind of cycle that I had just gotten into at the beginning of. It's also odd that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I suppose I'll have to start looking into alternative advertising...
OK, now I'm more confused... When I looked up "babe" or "babes" in the DP sandbox, no ads showed up. I just visited my site and one of the AS ads had the title "Babe" (just the 1 word) and another for "Indonesian Babes". So clearly "babe" is an acceptable keyword. So is the sandbox unreliable or is AS screwing with my ads? This is starting to get real frustrating. I might end up jumping ship on AS just on principle.
what an advertiser is allowed to use and what a publisher is allowed to use are 2 different pair of shoes likke so many times in this world the advertiser is giving the cash the publisher only a site worth a fortune without giving cash $ to G however in tests on particular single posts on my site i see clearly that the google sandbox results do apply to us publishers be happy that ads are allowed to have those words - they certainly are more attractive to click on than nun or monk keep in mind that changing the words may take up to weeks to take effect since google media bot comes within minutes after publishing a new page but then may take weeks to revisit that page again to process any changes made NOW you have ads on your start page BTW however rather boring ones ALL about RSS that's because you have many RSS links on the start page and RSS is a strong keyword for lots of rather cheap ads you may overcome this minus-points by using section targeting and wait until google mediabot visited next time to see how much your ad-topics have changed without the keyword RSS
Thanks for the tip, hans, yea, I also noticed the RSS ads. I've just added some google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) tags, I'll wait and see what happens, like you said. But while adding the tags, I came across what may have been killing me ... there was a javascript function that generated modified CSS for use with IE browsers. The template I'm using for the site was made by someone else, so they gave it the clever name "die_f***ing_IE_die()" ... I know Googlebot doesn't yet render javascript but I'm sure it still looks at it as plain text maybe? In any case, I've renamed the function, hopefully that'll reduce headaches.