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D'OH! I had my best day (CTR and EPC) of the month - about a 100% increase! It's a shame things are back to "normal" a day later.
I've been suitably humbled by this experience and will never again question the almighty AS deity.
Hope that AS hasn't flagged your not to put clothing on.
Since it's a page-based program, I would think they'd only tag the homepage, but you may have a point. I did get a response from AS Support when I queried them about the issue. I might see if I can find out if they flagged the entire site or just the homepage. Thanks for the thought!
Yes, and link to it near the adsense block.
Interesting tidbit
togsfordogs.com,
dogstogs.com, gucci4poochy.net
:)
Seems pretty closely related, enough to where the shoppers might actually cross over and be interested in the ads
couldn't pet clothing be loosely considered a dog supply?
Seems pretty closely related, enough to where the shoppers might actually cross over and be interested in the ads
Yep. That was my original point when I started this thread. I questioned the ads, but then I had the best day of the month. I tracked it down to those ads, so it just goes to show you that my one little brain is no rival to the almighty Google collective consciousness.
I've got a dog supplies website that suddenly started showing pet clothing ads in all 3 ad blocks on the homepage, even though I don't sell clothing and nothing on the page even hints at it.
With the new changes, advertisers can target your website. Nobody seems entirely sure when the new facilites are being rolled out fully, but in future if we see odd ads on our pages it might be because the advertiser thinks/knows that our sites (whilst not relevant) work well for them.
Therefore, if a dog clothing manufacturer thinks that your dog supplies site is going to work for them, then they will have to bid for that ad space, and that might mean more money for you.
In any case, although it probably isn't targetted ads as yet, it still seems relevant to site content and I personally wouldn't worry about it - especially as it seems to have worked well for you in any case!
They say they "fixed" the problem, which seems to indicate there was a glitch of some kind. Now I kinda wish they hadn't! :-)
In the future just block the urls of the ads you don't like. In general I don't recommend it but it does make it so you can do it and undo it without involving Google.
Yes, I tried that before involving Google. After blocking about 15 URLs, I realized there were a LOT of dog clothing AdWords advertisers, so I was spinning my wheels and probably severely dropping my EPC at the same time.
The lesson here is it's a DOG eat DOG world and you're wearing milk-bone underwear.
Don't quit yer day job, pal. :-)
