Up until about a few days ago my blog was showing relevant ads on every single page. Then for some weird reason the main page stopped showing relevant ads. I can't figure out why because the rest of the site is displaying the usual, relevant ads. I have tried removing a few things to see if they were causing the problem but it made no difference. Anyone have any ideas?
Well the same thing happened to me. I used to be using the competitive ads filter to remove all the unrelevant ads but it seems that the numbers are overwhelming until it reaches the limit of url that I can put in. Can't do anything for the moment. I was thinking of changing the keywords or use another keywords to complement the existing ones to see if that helps. Still working on it though.
i had this problem.. you have to pack a few more keywords in trust me. i thought i had like a good amount 2% bumped keywords up to about 4% and the relevent ads came back. i think its raito between "other" words and your keywords get me?
do any of the non-relevant ads have .cn domains? i've been getting swamped by this garbage lately, it only shows up on the home page.
I got this problem when someone started spamming my forum with ads for viagra and other crap. They kept showing up after I deleted those posts too so I had to use the competitive ad filter. I was surprised that they didn't fix when I cleaned up the content but o well.
I don't think the problem is that the site lacks keyworded content. The ads were highly relevant just several days ago and all the latest blog posts on the main page are relevant to the niche. I did have a chat box on the page but this had been present for ages. I have now removed it but the page is still displaying non relevant ads. The ads are relevant on every other page on the site, just not on the main page. The site is here if anyone wants to take a look and try to figure out what is wrong.
try the section targeting, it's as good an idea as anything, but i think that you'll have to contact adsense support... those ads on your home page are way off target, it's sorta similar to the crap situation i'm in, but worse on your site.
yeah the Ads being displayed on your website are of terrorism and U.S army and such crap which is not at all related to your website. I searched on google for Naruto army and I got many results as such: YouTube - Naruto - Army Dreamers - Kate Bush YouTube - Naruto amv - Naruto army Naruto Anime Wallpaper: Naruto army Naruto Army > Naruto Manga & Anime Story: The Military Adventures of Yuuto and Kari (a Modern Naruto... etc... So i think this Naruto keyword is linked highly with army and army is linked very much with terrorism. SO I think this is the reason your are getting such Ads which you think are irrelevant but your keyword is highly used with the word "army" and thats creating problems. My 2 cents.
The thinks to remembet: - use section targeting - relevant content on page AND site: descriptive text with keywords in it - relevant meta keywords
Okay, thanks for those suggestions. What I can't understand is that everything was fine until about a week ago. Plus add to that the fact that only the main page seems to be affected. Weird
I'm having the same problem, things were fine up until a few days ago on one of my sites (and the main page is loaded with keywords appropriate to the site), and ads either a) don't appear at ALL, or b) they're RUSSIAN. Even using the AdSense preview tool, and changing the targeting location to Canada, the adsense preview tool shows Russian ads for Canada. Duh. Something is broken somewhere.. Certain other countries do display the right ads though. Clicking the articles themselves and going to those pages, shows appropriate ads, for the most part.
riotz your case is weirder as compared to bigbluesky2006's one.In RUSSIAN!! very annoying for you I must say. You must contact google support for this.
Here's the solution (for me anyways) - The site doesn't comply with the Adsense TOS in some way. In my case, I don't have a privacy policy up and running. Within a minute (literally) of putting up a privacy policy link ("Privacy Policy") on the main menu of the one site, ads started showing, and the proper ones. Edit: Yup, definately seems to be the problem in my case, almost every site that I haven't had time to get a privacy policy on, is not showing ads. Putting one up triggers ads to start showing again in a fairly short space of time.