Seeing Chinese Language Ads

Targetting Still Off

[guru5571]

Anyone else seeing this. My pages are meta en-us. I see several ads in an odd language. I have no idea what these charcters are... Chinese, Japanes, Korean. Eastern characters of some sort.

[Chris_H]

We experience the same thing on occasions, despite being reassured by Adsense Support that they cannot see the foreign ads "their end".

As a result of these periods of badly geo-targeted ads (even with a blatently UK-centric domain name), CTR and earnings plummet.

Get in touch with Adsense Support (with screenshots of the ads in question). They may not be very proactive in helping individual websites, but the more publishers that report this phenomenon, the more they'll be forced to treat the problem seriously.

[malachite]

I see Chinese? ads from time to time - no idea what they're about, also on-topic ones in Spanish, Italian and German despite my site being 100% English. Go figure! :o