How long does it take Google to know what ads to serve on your page? My page has been past the public service announcement stage for a long time, and the ads currently displayed on the pages are related to the information that USED to be the majority. I now have a page that has lots of different articles about many things. For example, a single one of my pages are about gnomes. lol And Google is serving gnome ads on it. But my other pages that have different content are getting the old original content instead of what their new content should produce. Example: Page about trading cards. I wasn't sure if AdSense would even serve the right ads with all this different content, but since it worked for the gnomes article, it must work for all of them. So I ask, what do I need to do to get AdSense serving ads related to the small-medium sized articles? Thank you, Jonathan
id recommend reloading those pages a few times, but if adsense checked those pages recently it might take a while before it comes to check them out again. Maybe a week?
Thanks...well a couple minutes after I put the gnome site up it already had gnome ads. Who advertises for gnomes? I mean, come'on! lol Sillyness... Anyway, the gnome article I wrote is larger than the others...so tonight I will work on making the others larger, and maybe it'll "trigger" contextual ads finally. I don't see any reason why Google would try to prevent this. My site has very little clutter on it, and if someone chooses to read an article on what I have to say about something, they should see ads related to what I'm talking about. The advertisers will get more people who really want to look around on their site. Hopefully I can get this working better
Would the "title" of your site make a huge difference? Because I am using templates in Adobe GoLive and it makes a general layout easy to manage. So the title is the same for every page, but the content is VERY different. Grr, I'm seeing less and less of the gnome ads.
Well adding more content and changing the title only help if the googlebot is checking up on your pages, and he usually cant be tricked into coming if he came recently. Adding more content and updating your title are always good ideas, because you will get better target ads when the bot comes around again. You might want to download the 'Google Adsense Preview Tool' for IE which lets you just right click on any page to see what ads would be displayed. You also might be able to track the adsense bot. If you have a stats program, it should tell u in there if the bot is visiting. If you have access to your logs you can look for hits by Mediapartners-Google/2.1. Then see what pages hes visiting. But most likely just wait. Hopefully google will get the picture. As to seeing less gnome ads, I think that google tries to avoid showing the same ads to someone repeatedly (youve seen those ads a few times i wager) so it will start dropping off. If you come back in a while they will probably be back.
Thanks! I looked through my raw access log and the Mediapartners-Google/2.1 seems to be visiting on a daily basis. It is even visiting the pages I want to contextual ads to change on. Well I guess I'll keep adding more articles and hopefully it'll just pick it all up one day. If anyone has any extra info about this, it'd be greatly appreciated!!
IT WORKS!!! I updated one of my articles to include more text content about an hour ago, and I just checked the site with a german proxy(don't worry I didn't click)...but contextual ads are working! Yay! Within an hour is pretty good if you ask me. I learned a quick lesson in some of my silly writing, don't go off topic too much or you're article on monopoly can start seeing 3 ads on breakfast and 1 ad on monopoly.......waayyyy to much writing about breakfast LOL Thanks for all you're help! Still, if anyone has extra info based on this subject it'd be useful to look back on for others. EDIT: Meh...doesn't work too well anymore. Maybe I'm being impatient, but I had a couple friends check what kind of ads they were displaying incase I was seeing any differently....still the same normal stuff. I'll probably have to work on changing the titles, etc...unless someone here has experienced it working without changing the title?
While I've got a post going, might as well add another question to the fire. What does it mean when I see a single text ad in a four text ad slot? Does this mean I am getting paid a little for that to happen whether someone clicks or not? Is CPM the right term? lol Or does it mean the advertiser is paying more to take up that space, so one click of that is a larger chunk of change? Orrr am I completely wrong and it's simply "1 text ad taking up 4 text ad places"? LOL Thank you!
hah ill hit this one too: The advertiser only pays for clicks, so if they put 1 ad in 4 spaces it usually means there werent enough ads to fill that extra space, but google also likes to mix it up with differnt numbers so seeing just 1 is normal. I dont know how long your site has been up but it can take a couple weeks for google to get a good idea of what your site is about.
I'm really random and creative. My site started with some student films I did, and now I'm writing funny articles on the world. Google is going to have a tough time "AdSensing" this one, but so far I think it's doing okay. I just added my first AdSense search. What are these hidden fees I hear of? lol The way the search is setup it looks easy to get a high CTR...does Google get really suspicious of that? I was almost fooled myself into clicking one of the top links...they've set that up really well.
haha, I had a site with somewhat random content, so google started returning more general interest ads. Like joke sites, free smilies, is j lo hot!? that kinda thing
AdSense figures out what your topic is using standard search engine things. The page title is extremely important -- you must customize it for every page. You should also have one or two headings on each page (H1, H2) with keywords in them. And use the keywords in the content, of course, but not too much. Bolding or italicizing a keyword occasionally is also recommended, but it's easy to overdo that so you have to be careful about it. Also, the anchor text in links to other pages and also in links from other pages play a part. You'll want to do this stuff to rank highly in Google and other engines anyhow, so it's a double benefit to do it....
my mate has a weird problem. He has a picture blog in the main, and is constantly serviced with PSA ads. The weird thing is he has one post I asked him to post for me on a public service program named football aid. You'd think with the word AID in there he'd get PSAs for that post? You'd be wrong. That is the ONLY post on his blog with a decent ad. the site is steupz.blogspot.com if anyone wants to have a look to see what the adsense problem is