CGI vs HTML

Which one does Adsense like more?

[Glen_Murphy]

I recently put a mod rewrite on my new CGI pages

eg. /cgi-bin/Directory/Arts/index.cgi

to convert them to HTML

eg. /Directory/Arts/index.html

I placed Adsense on both formats. A week later, targeted ads only appear on the CGI pages. No targeted ads appear on the HTML pages.

Both formats are identical in content and only differ in the URL format. Both were created at the same time.

Can anyone explain why?

[JohnKelly]

Possibly because AdSense sees them as two separate URL's (despite identical content) and must spider them separately.

[Glen_Murphy]

Well the question then is, can it take up to a week to be spidered?

I created both the .cgi and the .html versions at the same time about 7 days ago. Only the .cgi version appears with targeted ads.

[Jenstar]

Has the mediabot visited the .html pages? Are there any other issues that could be in play (ie. session IDs, robots.txt or meta disallows)?

[Glen_Murphy]

Everything along those lines seem to be okay..

Would the spider have a problem crawling mod rewrite pages?

I only question that as my mod URL format is in:

/Directory/Arts/index.html

But if you take away to /index.html bit so it looks like

/Directory/Arts/

the mod doesn't recognise anything and it will result in a page not found.

Am I using the wrong rewrite format for Google's spiders?