Happy User with a Question

What Causes Serious Disjunctures?

[steverose]

I am happy with Adsense. It makes my business essentially overhead free. But today I noticed all the ads on my index (home) page have to do with cars and there is not one car-related thing on my home page and and on the 800 page site except for a little novel I proudly designate the first serious anti-automobile fiction.

What is the explanation of an obvious mismatch between ad subjects and the subjects of the pages on which the ads appear?

If my performance improves radically, I will shut up and concede they are very, very bright.

But it's still an interesting question.

Cheers, S

[alika]

Had the same problem last week, with Adsense showing ads based on 2 words on our homepage promoting one of our affiliate programs. So the ads were now all about this 2 words and not based on the general content of our site.

You may want to try what Jenstar recommended. We tried it and it took about 3 days to show ads related to our content again

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[steverose]

Cool! Thanks alika ...

[steverose]

End of story is that I tried everything including changing any words that could remotely cause the disjuncture. Finally, yesterday, I wrote Adsense and now all is well. They even replied but the mail was misdirected by Yahoo to my bulk folder and I only noticed it as I was deleting the whole mess. Presumably it was their usual cordial response and clearly the note I wrote did get results. Best, S

[jomaxx]

Glad to see things worked out.

About the bulk mail thing, I'm starting to get alarmed at how fallible and arbitrary these spam filters are. Yesterday I received a reply to an email I had sent, and the email header had been prefixed by his spam filter: "[SPAM] [94.7%]". Scary, because it was clearly 0% spam and I have no idea what was in the email to set off the filter.