Site Targeting So Soon?

Is my brand new blog being site-targeted already?

[kokaroach]

This one has me baffled (not a difficult feat lately).

I just put up a new blog about 24 hours ago which has no traffic other than from my own visits for the purpose of tweaking the design and writing the initial content.

I placed AdSense ads on the site so mediabot would have a chance to read/crawl the initial content before I announce the site to the world in a couple of days. Now, already, it appears there are site targeted ads showing up on that new site! It's a subdomain off one of my popular sites, which is currently NOT site targeted by AdSense ads (the origional, long term site that is).

The ads I'm talking about on the new site are in the following configurations:

1. 468X60 banners, centered text, large headline, description and url

2. Same as #1 but not centered.

The ads ARE very targeted and on-topic, which is good I guess.

No clicks have been registered on the channels set up for the new site yet.

Any of the more experienced AS publishers and site owners here have any input on this phenomenon?

K

[GeeWhizzler]

What's the big deal. Google Adsense is working so why worry about it.

[kokaroach]

Thanks for your input GW, but complacency has never been one of my strong points.

Anyone else have comments or input?

K

[spaceylacie]

You said it's on a sub-domain of your main domain. Someone targeted your main domain name, not the sub-domain. The reason why you never saw the ads on your main domain is because their ads could not compete with existing ads, hence, their ads were never shown. Now that you have the new sub-domain, with no minimum -I should say minimal- bid required, the site targeted ads are appearing.

[kokaroach]

Thanks spaceylacie, that totally makes sense.

K

[hunderdown]

Or could they be ads in that expanded format that AdSense is trying out?

I've seen ads like the one that you describe on my site, and I'm almost certain they are expanded ads, not site-targeted ads.

If you DO have site-targeted ads, you would see income in the channels you set up for your new blog, even though there have been no clicks. Since you didn't mention any earnings, that pretty much confirms these are expanded ads.

[spaceylacie]

Could be either of these situations. If no real visitors are coming in, no income would be reported whether they are site targeted or expanded ads.

My site targeted ads say Ads by Google, while expanded ads say Ads by Gooooogle, like the rest... maybe this will give you a clue.

[kokaroach]

Those are good points.

According to what you've written, they could be the expanded format ads. They all have the multiple 'o's on Ads by Goooogle.

Although, I still don't know for sure how valid the multiple o's theory is in the byline. Hmm, I guess it's as good an indicator as any though, since we don't know for sure how many aspects of AdSense really works.

K