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shall I resubmit my site when i change its main language

         

zslotyi

10:25 am on Jan 20, 2005 (gmt 0)



Hello everyone,
Some months ago I created a site in Hungarian. Afterwards I found out, that AdSense could be a good opportunity to increase my revenue from the site, but to my deep despair AdSense doesn't serve ads in hungarian (only POS), nor does it serve english ads for hungarian language sites.
So I decided to change my site's main language, which was not a big deal since the content is fully international (digicam and stuff like this). I completed the work 2 days ago, but I keep getting hungarian POS-s (I haven't changed the Google code on any of my pages, but i suppose it doesn't matter at all), so i'm getting a little puzzled now.
Will my site be automatically re-crawled (as i expected it was to be), or shall i re-submit it in google (i really dont understand why would i do that, but i dunno), or shall i create a complete new account at AdSense to get different language ads?
Or shall I just wait for some more hours (days, maybe - according to awstats googlebot visited my site yesterday afternoon when it was already in english) and everything will be all right?

lammert

12:25 pm on Jan 20, 2005 (gmt 0)

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My sites are bi-lingual. 50% of the pages are in English, 50% are in Dutch. In all pages I have the correct <html lang="xx"> setting since I joined Adsense.

My experience when looking at the ads displayed at the pages is that Google looks at the actual content of each page, including the language used. So I see mainly Dutch ads on my Dutch pages and English ads at my English ones. There are occasions where PSA's are shown on some Dutch pages because no matching ads are available. If you happen to see Hungarian PSA's it is because there are no advertisers focussing on the specific keywords on those pages. Changing to another language gives different keywords and therefore another set of ads to be shown.

When your pages are in English, the Google media bot needs about two weeks to rescan the site and change the ads for these pages. Just sit down and relax, this is an automatic proces.

One remark: as pointed out in this thread [webmasterworld.com ] it are mainly the advertisers who decide where their advertisments are shown, not the publishers. Which is the right way IMHO as they are paying for the ads. So, it may be the case that probably interesting advertisments are not shown to your Hungarian visitors because of the advertisers settings. This might not be a real problem as world wide visitors Will see them on your site.

Having your site in two languages (both Hungarian and English) may be a good option. My experience is, that although my sites are targeting a global subject, about 30% of the visitors are from Dutch origin. So having pages in my primary language serves quite an amount of visitors who would have probably stayed away if the site was English only.