Google Public Service ads on my site.

Just Google Public Service ads on my index page

[Copulae]

I rebuild my web site few time ago. HTML to XHTML strict.

But now, in my index page just google public service ads show up. In the rest of my site the ads are "correct".

Why this could be hapenning?

Thank to all

[ember]

I don't know about xhtml, but I'd guess either Adsense can't figure out what your page is about (not enough content) or there aren't enough advertisers availabe for your topic.

[MisterMarkup]

Google tries to automatically detect pages that violate the TOS, and serve them public service ads instead. They do this based on certain keywords, which can also be present in pages that don't violate the TOS. Could there be such words in your page? Maybe a little bit of editing could fix it.

If that doesn't, I'd ask adsense support for help.

[Knappster]

It's more about avoiding embarrassing ad placements on pages with touchy subjects. On a page about burying your dead father, they don't want to serve ads for shovels. So they serve PSAs instead.

As ember says, make sure there's enough content on your index page. Use section targeting if the page has words or phrases that might be triggering PSAs.

[martinibuster]

How long has this been happening?

[Eazygoin]

Are you using 'image only' ads? If so, you may want to change to 'image and text' ads so you get the best of both worlds, if there aren't any image ads available.

[humblebeginnings]

My parents learned me not to make fun of someones name. But I suggest you ditch the "e" off your (nick) name, and put that word in Google image search (Ahem... turn off the adult filter...), and enjoy!
Perhaps that's what the Adsense algo gets nervous about. BTW, I see your site displays normal ads again.

[Copulae]

My site is about web design - web site promotion - web hosting - and graphic design, so in the main page I put a little descrption about each category. In the first days the google ads was just fine, but since 3 days ago, just google public services ads.

I´m using just text google ads 728 x 90. (1)

And about my (nick) name, I dont see that google gets nervous about it. This is just happening in my index page. ads for web design, web hosting, web promotion or my contact page are perfect.

Copulae is the latin word for union, so, I hope google dont get nervous with this. BTW, I search in google and dind't find nothing extraordinary, but i get the point.

Thanks to all. I will modify my content and see what happend.

[bigmack19]

Here's a few helpers with this topic. I had the same exact thing, only my actual "www" site index was displaying the psa's and the non www site index was displaying relevant ads.

As well if you added index.php to the www url it was displaying relevant ads.

I tried numerous things to fix this - including the google section targeting and exclusion code that you can find in the adsense help topics, all to no avail.

I'm pretty sure this is something to do with googles indexing of the www and non www pages differently.
(more evidence to backup the "301 redirect your non www page to the www page" theory)

Anyway, my whole solution to the problem was to email them and let them know about it. They emailed back within a day and fixed the problem within another. I was actually very impressed with their response times considering the vast amount of publishers they deal with.

They never did acknowledge the existence of any problem even though I asked if there was something on my end I could change to fix it - therefore that gives abit more weight to my thoughts on the non-www page to the www page theory.

Another theory may be something to do with the way cms's work (yes I use a cms). If your using one of those it could be that as well.

In any case I would say email google and you'll more than likely find your problem fixed.