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With the same relevancy issues.
What are we proving here - that instant indexing works (!) or that Euro-mediabot has heard about the cold weather heading to us from CA and has decided to take a well-earned rest in the Carribean?
Have any of you noticed that your index.html pages are treated differently?
On one of my sites the index page gets public service ads. When I rename this page index2.html and submit it to Bretts tool I get exactly relevant ads.
Also if I submit a page that does not exist I get broad matched ads to the main theme of the site. Does anyone here know enough to tell me what might be the cause of these apparent anomolies.
Many thanks
Sid
Does anyone here know enough to tell me what might be the cause of these apparent anomolies.
You wrote the answer :-)
If you type in a url that does not exist it will show the site theme. I'm guessing that your site theme just happens to be exactly the same as the index2 you created since it wasn't indexed.
You can type in bogus url's all day long and as long as the domain exists you will see ads.
JAG
If I click on an ad who gets credit?
I honestly don't know. I'm guessing that the credit is given to the id that is used but I'm not sure. If it isn't then the places I have seen it are friends with the site that was approved and are sharing revenue I suppose.
JAG
And every now and then, just to throw me, it'll just start working instantly like I'd typically expect...
It is also added to the AdSense library if anyone needs to find it in the future without having to look back through our 20,000+ posts ;)
If you look at the Properties of the ads displayed, at the end it shows "client=ca-test." There's no publisher ID. I suspect Brett asked Google to provide this to him for our use. So while it can be tracked, I don't think anyone is making anything from clicks.
Right. And I have seen folks use client=ca-{someone elses client id}_468x60....{someone elses url}
The effect was to bring up the ads for a site that was not theirs. The question was who gets the credit for the clicks? I don't know?
JAG
It works with the same geographical location code that works with google. You just add &gl= then the two letter country code for the country you want to see the ads for.
For example
To see ads targeted at the United Kingdom you would add &gl=uk
To see ads targeted at Andorra you would add &gl=ad
By doing it this way you don't have to muck around with porxy servers and port forwarding.
If you type in a url that does not exist it will show the site theme. I'm guessing that your site theme just happens to be exactly the same as the index2 you created since it wasn't indexed.
Hi,
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Maybe I didn't explain myseI don't get broad match ads I get exactly relevant ads. So Adsense knows exactly what the content of my page is and gives very acurately targetted ads for the renamed page but for the same page named index.html it sends PS ads. The point is that it seems to be treating the index page differently. Can anyone explain why it treats the index.html page differently?
Best wishes
Sid
