Why are there ONLY PSA ads?

geo-targeting issue?

[qwer3000]

I keep seeing PSA ads and only PSA ads, ever since about 1month ago, previously there never were PSA ads, not even on blank pages. What happened? I am trying hard to put non-PSA ads on my site, it never worked.

I also noticed that google counts the clicks by IP add, however in my country (traffic targeted there), the isp s use dynamic IP, so basiclly the whole country has the same IP...anyway to fix that?

[ChrisKud5]

No real way to fix the shared IP issue.

What country are you from where the everyone uses the same IP? Thats a small country, like a house or something.

Were you removed from the adsense program? Just have to ask, if you only see PSA ads you may have been suspended or kicked out, so no rev ads are served to you.

Do your page contain enough content for targeting?

Do your pages contain any stop words or inapropiate langauge that would lead google to not supply you ads?

You can always email google and ask them what is up, they may be able to help.

[Jenstar]

Chances are there are not enough ads geo-targeted to your country - it might have previously thought your IP was from a different country, which would cause a sudden change to PSAs when it corrected the geo-targeting for that IP.

Try a proxy server in the US or UK, for example, and you would probably see targeted ads. If this is the case, it isn't really Google's fault if no advertisers have chosen to target your country with ads. But if your site is serving as a resource for your country, you might be out of luck for using AdSense as a viable source of income - unless more advertisers decide to target your country with their ads.

[Powdork]

Can Googlebot get past your downloader thingy without clicking yes. I couldn't.

[richmondsteve]

qwer3000 wrote:

I also noticed that google counts the clicks by IP add

Can you elaborate on what you mean and how you know this? Are you stating that Google records multiple clicks from the same IP as a single click? If so, is this on a per publisher or per site basis, over what time period is this true (in other words, when would additional clicks be credited) and how did you test this to confirm?

however in my country (traffic targeted there), the isp s use dynamic IP, so basiclly the whole country has the same IP

In your country does the ISP assign IPs dynamically or do all of the ISP's users have their traffic routed through a proxy server with a single IP? There's a difference and dynamically assigned IPs would be a minor issue, while a single IP proxy would be a huge issue.

...anyway to fix that?

Start an ISP with a large pool of static or semi-static IPs? ;-)

[qwer3000]

well, firstly i'm from singapore, and not excatly everybody uses the same ip, like i said its dynamic, everybody has their own real ip add, but it is being masked by my isp, the real ip is 218.***.***.***, but somehow everybody sees it as 202.something.

2ndly, i wasnt kicked out, neither did google mistook my country, and i did email them, all i got was an auto-repond(the same thing that was on the FAQ).

3rdly, I DO have enough content because, the non-PSA ads were shown on the same site as the PSA ones are.

I got so fed-up till the extend that i decided to try the ads on other pages that HAVE google ads like <snip>, and i just couldnt believe it, i simply changes the ref code, and the PSA ads appeared!
Google isnt really fair now is it?

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[edited by: Jenstar at 1:36 pm (utc) on June 17, 2004]
[edit reason] NO URLS as per TOS, please! [/edit]