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I'm updating the site (design, content, etc.) and relocated the page from another directory with a redirect in .htaccess. Did not have AS on it before the site update. All other pages are displaying AS fine and are redirected the same way.
I check for wording that might cause AdSense to balk - can't find anything. As a matter of fact, there is a another page of the same product with more product details that is displaying AS fine so it's not the wording. (Same wording except more added to description, resides in another directory)
I then try section targeting. Nada.
So I move on into a section that has AS showing on the index.html of domain.com/differentdir/ . I save that as new.html and add the content little by little of the non displaying AS page. AS displays just fine on new.html. I move new.html into domain.com/item-of-the-month/ and it displays just fine. I save it as index.html and it won't display AS any longer. I then save this page as indexbak.html and I take a page displaying AS on it, save it as domain.com/item-of-the-month/index.html with completely different content. No AS will display. I save it as new2.html - AS displays! I try indexbak.html and AS displays! What the heck? Has anyone had this happen? Can ASA advise?
Hope
adsense looks for keywords in page name. maybe 'new' had something to do with products, while 'index' does not. therefore, 'new' will display ads for a while, until adsense robots spider the page, figure out that there's a problem on it and won't display ads any longer, just as you see it now.
try renaming it from index.html to index.htm if your server can use that as the default homepage.
How long are your tests? Could be that the mediabot needs more time to spider and understand that particular page.
Several days wouldn't be enough for the mediabot? And yet all other pages (new and/or revised) are almost immediately displaying ads - including the full product description page located in a separate directory.
