Last week I began noticing that I kept seeing the same ad 90% of the time on my own site, in its adsense slots. Then, I looked around and saw the same ad on other sites that were not mine. I asked my son if he was having the same thing happening to him, and he said yes, but with a different ad. Each of us are seeing an ad for a site that we have each visited recently. We are on different computers on the same network. This also coincided with about a 50% drop in Adense eCPM on my site. That makes be wonder if a) it's happening to others reading my site, or b) it's happening all around the internet and we are not the only victims. Can anyone shed any light on what the heck this may be?
GEO target ADs, and the power of tart cookie tracking, the ad just for you, no matter which site you visit. Google just want you to click.
Boy, that's really dumb on their part. There is no diversity of ads. I don't want to click that ad (already been to the site before) so I will never click it. I must have seen it 2,000 times this week. Not smart Google, serve me some other ones and I might click.
it's all down to keywords....Also google will serve you/any other site with the highest paying ads. Basically nothing you can do about it other than selecting the option to exclude that advertiser (which google does allow you to do)
Actually, it happens on all sorts of different keyworded pages. Completely different ones, dozens of different ones.
yes its dart cookie, third party ad networks. You can opt out of it, either as a publisher for your whole account or as a user (the page is somewhere on google site)
Dart? Interesting. Does this mean that my site is stuck showing this too much to my readers too? I notice that my income is down since I started seeing it. So do I opt out of just that one ad, or out of the whole third party ad network program (and if yes, is that a good idea?)
what you see is not the same as what others see because with dart it's based on what you've been browsing before. like if you're looking to buy a new laptop, you'll then see ads for laptop everywhere you go with adsense and dart activated, including your site. There are "Interest-based ads" and "third party ads". If you really want to, you can disable in your account. Personnally I let adsense manage all that, because what is good for them is probably good for me, at least I think I believe that because it allows me more time to focus on increasing overall traffic and earnings.