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I have 2 websites - one about finance products and the other about mobile phones. However for some reason for the last week or so, only one adsense block is being displayed per page. This is on every page on both sites. I know that there are enough ads because the ads that do appear are constantly changing to different but similar offers?
This is the first time in 10 months I've had this problem. And with most pages only showing one adsense block instead of my normal two, I'm seeing poor results and my websites look 'unfinished'.
Is anyone else experience this problem?
If anyone can figure out why this happens, please advise.
These are on targeted, content-rich pages with sufficient potential ads to fill both ad blocks. I know this, because before I had four-ad skyscrapers that were *always* filled--never anything less than four ads, never a PSA.
This is not a coding mistake. I have a Perl script that generates identical HTML code for each ad block. I also use templates to generate my pages. All pages check cleanly as valid HTML code.
Aggravating!
I've now even allowed filtered sites like ebay.com and rival website urls back into my adds to try and fill out my 2 adsense blocks. I've also changed the 2nd block on my index pages to a small square '1 add' block but that was hours ago and still nothing.
Allthough CTR picked up today, my webpages still seem a 3rd empty now, both websites look very odd. Fortunately, I used the background colour of my page so that it's not full of PSAs - although I doubt even they will show!
Before, my pages have a single 4-ad skyscraper in the right sidebar, and *on every page* four ads *always* show.
I switch to specifying two 2-ad ad units, one at the top of my page content, the other at the bottom. The first ad unit invariably shows, the second sometimes fails to show.
On a test page, I try replacing the bottom 2-ad banner with a 1-ad half banner. The bottom 1-ad half banner fails to show.
I then try a 1-ad half banner at the top, a 1-ad half banner at the bottom. The bottom 1-ad half banner fails to show.
So, in this test page's current configuration, I see just a single advertisement--the 1-ad half banner--at the top of my page.
In every configuration I try for this page, I can only get the first ad unit to show, never the second.
I know that there are sufficient ads in the Google inventory to show four ads on this page. Before, four ads would always show. Ten minutes ago, two ads were showing (in the page-top 2-ad banner). Now, just one ad shows (in the page-top 1-ad banner; the page-bottom banner is blank).
I have some pages where both ad units show. On other pages, the first shows, the second doesn't.
The first and second ad unit HTML code is in all cases identical.
The pages check as valid HTML.
No HTML fanciness, no frames, just straightforward HTML with tables (and not excessively nested).
Pages with this problem are focused and content-rich.
No SEO tricks.
What gives? Why (on some pages) does the second ad unit fail to display any ads?
It can be soooooooo frustrating working with Goooooooogle sometimes!
So for me now it's just four-ad banners or skyscrapers, one per page.
