Adsense in Hebrew (and maybe Arabic)

Tips on how to display Hebrew ads

[hanan_cohen]

Adsense does not currently fully support Hebrew but Hebrew ads can be displayed on Hebrew websites.

As formally stated in the following discussion, it is not against the TOS to display Adsense ads on sites with unsupported languages.

[webmasterworld.com...]

Take the following steps:

1. Register with Adsense. I have registered with Adsense on my English website. I don't know if Google will allow you to register based on your Hebrew website. One can find ways to bypass this problem...

2. Program your website using the UTF-8 encoding. Adsense DOES understand Hebrew, meaning it can display ads relevant to the text of the page only if it is shown in the UTF-8 encoding. If you don't to that, you will get public service ads.

3. Add the Adsense code where ever you want on the page.

4. The ads will be shown justified to the left because Hebrew is not yet a fully supported language. Soon it will change since the Israelli office of Google is about to be opened here.

5. Make good money.

I think it might also work for Arabic but I am not sure.

Enjoy,

Hanan Cohen

[shafaki]

There are sites arleady displaying Arabic ads. The issue is are there enough Arabic ads in the AdWords inventory? I guess not.

Even so, the ads display correctly in Arabic, in terms of the Arabic characters and words, but is targetting working fine? I'm not sure. But since Google has not yet supported Arabic in a 'deep' level (that is on a linguistic level, morphology, syntax ... etc) then targetting with either work poorly just on a surface level or might not even work at all (probably will produce funny results).

Even though I see some AdSense ads in Arabic, yet I can't really say that AdSense supports Arabic in a practical sense (i.e. money making wise).

[JohnKelly]

Has anyone had any success with AdSense ads in other languages? I pulled them off my site shortly after smart pricing took effect, since I figured they wouldn't convert well due to poor targeting.

[AdSenseAdvisor]

hanan_cohen -

As you know, AdSense for content currently only supports the languages listed at:

[google.com...]

We cannot yet support other languages, such as Hebrew and Arabic, because AdSense is a content-targeted program. This means that although we may have an AdWords ad inventory for these languages, the AdSense algorithm cannot yet understand the meaning of web pages in unsupported languages. Therefore, we cannot serve relevant ads. The ad-targeting for AdSense for content uses different technology than the ad-targeting for Google search results, for example.

We do hope to add new languages in the future. In the meantime, we ask that you do not modify the AdSense ad code to alter targeting, as this is prohibited by our program policies.

[hanan_cohen]

I did not suggest changing the ad code. And sometimes I see ads on my pages that look so matched to the page, I susspect Google DOES understand Hebrew. It's just not official yet.

[hanan_cohen]

Here is the proof that AdSense DOES understand Hebrew: A page on my website talk about a child needing a blood donation.

Four ads are displayed:

1. Umbilical cord blood collection
2. Lowering blood pressure
3. Bachlor parties (irrelevant)
4. Alternative blood therapy