Blasted PSA's

I still can't figure out a pattern to these things.

[HeyJim]

I'm working on a new site for the last week and building some nice content. Not strictly a "selling" site but writing some articles on the topic. For a week now some pages have very well targeted Adsense displaying but every other page still has PSAs running.

Worked on a old site today making some significant changes. When I left the office at 7:30 everything was fine. I check back at 10:30 and every blasted page has PSA's on it.

Thankfully Adsense isn't my only source of income on these sites but it sure is frustrating when you can't even count on them to run commercial Adsense. And, in these two very competitive fields I'm positive it can't be because there are no ads at the moment.

If only there was a real competitor. {dang} Just ranting.

[jhood]

If there was a "real competitor," it would not be competing to pay higher prices to publishers. The competition will be to deliver more ads to more eyeballs at lower cost.

Publishers are in the cat bird's seat now, not later.

[Roomy]

I am always interested when I hear about publishers getting PSA's. I can honestly say I have never seen a PSA on any of my sites since I started adding some good keywords in the url and title.

It seems I can put almost irrelavent content on a page and I will still get ads targeted at my url and title tags.

[HeyJim]

Not necessarily saying I should be paid more money. ('though that would be nice.) Shoot, Adsense is the first thing I've really made any money off of outside of my own products. What I'm looking for is consistency so that I know better what the rules of the game are.

I have a keyword domain in each case mentioned above with keywords in the title, a sprinkling of keywords in the 500 word body text, and still have trouble with PSA's.

Again, that bothers me precisely because Adsense is the best thing financially that has happened to me and PSA's unnecessarily cost lost income.

[jhood]

There are a few topics that automatically trigger PSAs because Google won't display ads on pages that deal with the forbidden topics. Of course, no one knows what they are, which makes it a little hard to avoid them. Death seems to be one.

I personally like to have a scattering of PSAs. Publishing is supposed to be a public service business -- doing good while doing well and all that. It doesn't hurt to give some space to worthwhile causes. Too much money just causes problems anyway.

[Sanenet]

Heyjim: would you say that you are in a "fringe" industry? It might be that there aren't many advertisers in your category, and they have low budgets, so Google has to mix them with PSAs to prevent inventory loss. (If your daily budget isn't enough to cover projected impressions throughout the day, Google slows down display of your ads to ensure 24 hour coverage).

[anallawalla]

If the site has been up for only a couple of weeks, it won't have been crawled fully. Unless you see a whitebar on the page, you can't assume you'll not get real ads there after the syndicaction bot has crawled.

[annej]

I am getting more PSAs because of trigger words. It seems you can't write on a patriotic topic anymore, at least if you mention soldiers, war or died. <sigh>

[HeyJim]

I personally like to have a scattering of PSAs. Publishing is supposed to be a public service business -- doing good while doing well and all that. It doesn't hurt to give some space to worthwhile causes. Too much money just causes problems anyway.

A noble sentiment (and absolutely no sarcasm intended) but not quite applicable to my situation yet. I really need the money.

The biggest problem site is main stream (as opposed to being in a fringe industry) so I'm as positive as one can be that an absence of ads is not the problem.

However, I forgot the forbidden words! "Death" two times. "Die" two times. Those words are replaced now. Be interesting to see if that was the problem.

Thanks all.

[Duke_of_Url]

something seems odd, ads on both very established, and fairly recent, sites of mine have nearly all switched to PSAs whereas to date they've been bang on :-( watch them clicks just tumble..

DoU