Adsense suggestion: submit url to be revisited by mediabot

[fredw]

I have a dynamic site which usually stays on target but sometimes ads are taken off what I would consider the main targetting of the site by new content. I fix the content but as we all know with stop words, there's really no good way to make the mediabot come back to see you've fixed things. (Changing the url is not a viable option unless you want to screw up your SERPS.)

So, my suggestion I'd like to plant in the ear of whatever Adsense people are listening this morning: It would be really cool if we had someplace in our Adsense control panel where we could enter a url that tells the mediabot it needs to come back to that page as soon as it can.

Thanks.

[jetteroheller]

sitemap.xml does this job. See Google sitemaps

[fredw]

How does having a page in a google sitemap help? If the Adsense mediabot has already gotten a page, how does having the page in a sitemap help it to know it has to come back?

[jetteroheller]

Because in sitemap.xml is also an information at what time every page was last time changed.

<url>
<loc>http://my-site.com/my-folder/my-file.htm</loc>
<lastmod>2006-01-14</lastmod>
</url>

So Google knows with sitemap.xml immedeately what pages have changed.

Instead of spidering several hundred pages, Googlebot needs only to reindex the changed pages.

[fredw]

OK. But, do we know for sure, does Mediabot (not Googlebot) follow sitemaps?

[jetteroheller]

OK. But, do we know for sure, does Mediabot (not Googlebot) follow sitemaps?

How shows Mediabot up in the log files?

[fredw]

Mediapartners-Google/2.1

[ann]

I simply remake the ad, (even if it is the same), then reupload the page and that seems to trigger mediabot that there is bot food waiting. :)