PSA's

Just started showing up

[Roadkill]

On my 2 main pages that were generating the best sucsess, suddenly started to show psa's only. All that changed on the page was the date that it was last updated. Why would this happen?

[johnwhitesmith]

Cause your website isn't very good, or isn't targeted. Put keywords in the title, and more keywords in the body.

[Roadkill]

I will be adding more content and paying more attention to it.(thanks) But everything was working fine with what I had and It was working to what considered successful and upon the update change (as in last updated) in a catagory on the page, it went to psa's

[Powdork]

Did you ad a potential stopword to your page with the recent changes?

[johnwhitesmith]

huh?

[Powdork]

Stop words are words on your page which can cause psa's to show. They are words which have in the past or could foreseeibly in the future cause an inappropriate ad to show.
Picture a news story about a fatal airline crash and the ads coming from expedia, cheaptickets, and hotwire. There have been worse example also. Do a little searching for <Google adsense stop words> or <words that trigger psa's> or similar queries.

[Jenstar]

Cause your website isn't very good, or isn't targeted. Put keywords in the title, and more keywords in the body.

An excellent and targeted website complete with keywords can have PSA issues. I agree with others who say it is most likely a stop word issue.

More threads on AdSense stop word issues [google.com]

[Roadkill]

Man I'm going to start to pull my hair out with this one. I have researched all the stop words I could find and changed ones I thought were even questionable. I just thought it to be strange that the 2 pages that started showing PSA's were my most succesful pages and it started on the 1st of the month seemingly out of the blue. But I wont give up and I really do appreciate all the help I have received here and I hope to be able to contibute to others. Great forum.

[Metaphorically]

I've had days where I see a lot of PSA's. I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I intend to set up a second banner to display instead of a PSA. It should be as simple as signing up with another adverstiser and putting the other ad url in the "Alternate ad URL" box on your Adsense ad layout page.

[Roadkill]

Bummer. I have completely reformated and rewrote one of my main pages and still have PSA's

Is it possible that google will target a particular page with PSA' regurdless of content simply based on "name.htm" For instance lets say there was a stop word or 2, then they throw in the PSA's then page content changes but "name.htm" is the same. Could that have anything to do with it?

All I saw in my sleep last night were PSA's.......

[Sanenet]

All that changed on the page was the date that it was last updated.

Mediabot probably recognised the changed date and is waiting to spider the page again. Check your logs to see if that page has been spidered by it since the change.

If you keep changing the lastchanged date then it will keep resetting.

[Roadkill]

OMG.... Now every page thoughout the entire site has gone to PSA's What could possibly be happening.!

HELP
HELP
HELP

[Jenstar]

Email AdSense support and they can check into why you are getting PSAs, or if the issue is on there end. There is still a chance it could be a stop word issue - they constantly change their stop word list to reflect current events in the world, and you might have a stop word that hasn't been mentioned before.

Let us know what AdSense says.

[Roadkill]

Thank you Jenstar, and I will keep the forum posted on any changes or info from google.

[Roadkill]

Google responded quickly. I was initialy hesitant to contact google, based on a variety ot threads on this forum. Many gave the impression that google wasn't client friendly.

I thought they were prompt, courtious and professional. they got back to me within 6 hours. Then they crawled the site. Now everything is fixed. I call that prompt. It may not happen that way all the time. But that was my experience.

Turns out as someone said in another post (thank you). that it could be one or 2 weeks from the time you make a change untill you are spidered again. Hence..... PSA's

Which brings me to a delema. My site is constantly being updated with new content and pages. Now the new pages have to have a main page to access them from based on catagory (I have alot of videos and images). How do you do that? because if it could be 2 weeks between crawls and the site is updated 4 times a week,I will always have PSA's. How do you get around that problem?

[Powdork]

It shouldn't result in PSA's but rather ads that are targetted towards the content based on their last crawl. PSA's are generally the exception to the rule but if they become a persistent problem you can always use an alternate ad, even a charity of your own choosing rather than Google's.

[Jenstar]

How do you get around that problem?

Generally changing the ad unit size (ie. banner to leaderboard) will prompt a return visit. You can change it back after the bot pays a visit.

[miracle]

I also noticed the same thing happening. Google media bot visits my forum everyday. Don't know why. I just changed some text on the footer.

[rfung]

Uhm, roadkill, which email did you use to contact adwords support?

I came here to the adsense forum because one of my sites have been showing PSAs on all pages (it's a new site,but it has been spidered by the regular googlebot), and I'm wondering what's the deal with this.

[Roadkill]

Here is the e-mail address [e-mail] It should have been on your welcome letter.