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Adsense ads in subdirectories

         

Hubbard

3:03 am on Jun 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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For the last few weeks I have been working on my site's redesign. The file I have been working on is three folders deep though and its content is an exact replica of an article that is one folder deep.

After placing the Adsense units on the file after a whole week I'm still not seeing relevant ads. Does Adsense have a problem with files that are two or three subdirectories deep?

hyperkik

5:03 am on Jun 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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It shouldn't. Have you excluded robots from accessing your test folder?

mzanzig

5:30 am on Jun 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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It may take up to six weeks to see fully relevant ads (at least, it took Google about six weeks to "learn" what works when I started with Adsense).

Hubbard

10:45 am on Jun 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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No robots.txt

It doesn't take six weeks to see relevant ads. I always get them after a couple of page refreshes. This is the first time I have noticed irrelevant ads.

We have been working a lot with MySQL and the ads that are coming up are for SQL however the content has nothing to do with MySQL at all.

mrSEman

10:50 am on Jun 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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6 weeks? Wow! I have dozens of sites in subfolders of the same domain with thousands of pages and topics. When I upload a newpage, and G doesen't start putting up relevant ads within 6 refreshes I start to panic. Many times G gets it right by the first page impression and mostly by the second.

Quadrille

10:55 am on Jun 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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The file I have been working on is three folders deep though and its content is an exact replica of an article that is one folder deep.

So we are talking folders, not subdirectories?

If you have duplicate content, that's an issue for Google; if it's "an exact replica", perhaps that's a problem for adsense.

Why would you want two identical pages? Is this something you do a lot?

Hubbard

1:00 pm on Jun 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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No its only one duplicate page that I copied to test the new layout and My SQL stuff. My visitors have no idea of its existence.

Come to think of it even though your post is a little rude it has made me think that the file might be serving the wrong ads because the content is the same as another article.

BobbyG

1:57 pm on Jun 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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This is my 1st entry after following our Forum over the past several months. To increase the relevent ads, here is what I recommend:

1. Do not ad your codes until the page is complete with all content, keyword title and keyword phrases.

2. Place the codes near a keyword on the page. I do it between paragraphs where a keyword appears as the 1st few words of the 1st sentence.

3. Keep your ads down to 1 or 2 blocks if your find that the ads are not relevent.

hyperkik

2:06 pm on Jun 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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One other thought - if you have the AdSense javascript in an external file there will be problems matching the ads to the content of the page.

Hubbard

2:12 pm on Jun 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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What do you mean external? You mean putting the Adsense code in a php include?