Getting Only Charity Ads :(

[Manifest23]

Well I run a site at <snip> I am running vBulletin 3 on it as forum software with the vBAdvanced portal software as the main page.

Anyways, I was running vBulletin 2.2.4 with vBHome(lite) a couple of weeks ago and I was making 50x more than I am now (not an exageration). Ever since I have upgraded to the new vBulletin I haven't been getting relevant ads at all. I tried emailing Google about the situation. They told me I had session ids and the google bots weren't able to give me relavant ads. I don't have session ids however.

I have tried everything to get atleast my homepage serving non-charity ads but nothing works. Since you are all AdSense all-stars, I thought I would ask here if anyone knew how to get rid of the charity ads.

I am receiving 10000+ impressions on the ads a day and not making much. AdSense is the only program I really like so I would prefer to stay with them.

[edited by: Jenstar at 2:35 pm (utc) on Mar. 8, 2004]
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[yoyo8]

I checked out your site and notice you display 2 sets of Adsense ads per page. That's not permitted.

[Manifest23]

You caught me in the middle of moving the ads around. I'm trying to see what performs better.

I'm getting correct ads on the actually thread pages but on the Home Page and Forum Home I am getting nothing but charity ads.

[gethan]

<snip>

Welcome to WebmasterWorld.

Anyway - charity ads...

Couple of possible reasons:

1) Your site is really new - look in the logs for visits from a MediaPartners Googlebot - shortly afterwards your ads will start to be relevant.

2) Stop words. If your page contains negative words - death, murder etc then the ads displayed will be the charity ads. I have a page on Auschvitz for example.

3) Strongly recommend that you put in an alternate ads url under adsense settings - the you can track in your logs which pages have the charity ads - and look for reasons why.

4) Check the session id stuff more carefully - possible that you have software that puts a session id in IF the browser does not accept a cookie. Lots of work here if that is the case - either customising - or migrating (again) to another board.

[edited by: Jenstar at 2:35 pm (utc) on Mar. 8, 2004]
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[cyanweb]

You may want to check end this thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]

MediaBot apparently not updating - you will get Charity or "alternate" until starts back up... I updated 20,000 pages last 36 hours and all are not showing ads...

[wonderboy]

I took a peek round your forum, and some of the threads had really well targetted ads. <snip>

Not sure why you are getting hosting ads on a topic about "<snip>".

Maybe the best thing to do is have 2 ad networks running, one that allows more adult topics, and have a specific section of the forum for this, and the google one for discussion on non adult related issues.

Not sure why your getting PSAs on your front page, probably just a matter of time.

W.

[edited by: Jenstar at 4:13 am (utc) on Mar. 21, 2004]
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[arrowman]

I had one page with charity ads on a site with lots of regular ads. It turned out the page had one particular Dutch word "stijve", which means both "stiff" and "<adult related keyword>" :-)

I replaced it with a synonym of "stiff" and real ads appeared one or two days later.

Cheers,
René Pijlman

[edited by: Jenstar at 2:45 pm (utc) on Mar. 8, 2004]
[edit reason] No adult keywords, please ;) [/edit]

[DaveN]

Guy's remember your adsense Mod is a lady :(

DaveN

[wonderboy]

Are you implying that we should treat this creature differently?

[ncw164x]

yes it's called respect

[DaveN]

ncw164x is right on the button, dam right in the UK we respect ladies and try not to be rude or swear in front..... except when drunk of course ;)

DaveN

[wonderboy]

So it is ok to do this to the male species?

Im not sure females are in agreeance.

Me being the open-minded person I am would ask why treat two humans differently? Because society tells you to?

[ideaguru]

i find that charity ads are often on my sites, however they switch between regular and charity ads depending on what computer I search from?

I'm not sure why this happens, but hey, it must be a sign to fine-tune the HTML of my sites more often.

Moral of the story: site problems are usually my impetus for dramatic improvement. Without them, i usually am happy with the status quo.

[cyanweb]

We noticed this as well - 2 computers on same network 1 will show highly relevant ads... the other shows alternates... same page in site

We tried on 2 different dial ups at same time... same thing... though 1 was using win98 (no ads) other was xp (showed ads) - both using same browser (Opera)

It doesn't really make sense... anyone else with same problem - any solutions?