stunned at how quick adsense works

[jenkers]

Hi all,
I don't know if this is unusual at all but I have been absolutely stunned today at just how quickly G have got targetted ads on a new page.

I put up 2 new pages on a site today - completely new topic, and Unrelated to the other content. This was about 16:00 GMT.

At 19:45 GMT those pages are showing targetted Adsense ads - on exactly the right topic.

Maybe I am just showing my ignorance, but I thought that G had to spider the page first before showing relevant ads - that certainly seems to have been the case in the past.

Is this normal (i.e. should I just say duh and shut up). I expected to be waiting days to weeks to see targetted ads.

[bnhall]

When you put adsense on a new page mediabot spiders very quickly, often within minutes.

[4eyes]

Its normal-ish

When I launch a new site, I make a point of visiting each key page myself.

Often by the time I have finished the exercise the first pages are already showing targeted ads.

[flyer727]

I've seen targeted ads within 1-2 min, other times it takes hours, sometimes never.

[Kinitz]

I have seen targeted ads within seconds after publishing of new URL.

It depends on pagerank of the site from which link is outgoing - I guess...

[kodaks]

Hmmm....mine takes around 4 or 5 days.

[Never_again]

I add lots of new pages every day and it has never taken Google more than five minutes to have targeted ads on all new content (been with AdSense for over one year now). Since all my content is about the same general subject, it may be that "site level" ads appear first followed at some point by more targeted ones.

[mike schmitz]

I've noticed that when the page earl matches the <title> and the <h1> text, i can control almost exactly what ads appear and often without a delay whatsoeva.

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[richmondsteve]

page earl? What is that?

[buckworks]

I'd guess it's a typo for "page URL".

[jenkers]

wow - thanks all for clearing that up for me. I guess I was expecting the adsense to start working after the general crawl picks up the page. All very clever this technology stuff :)

[richmondsteve]

Thanks, buckworks. That makes sense.