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Anybody else experiencing this? Any idea how to fix it? People going to a pet site are not looking for child safety devices.
Thanks
On your home page, you could have some navigation text or just a couple of random words that the bot is targeting. use "section targeting" to tell it what sections to ignore or pay particular attention to.
Do a search on that phrase within AdSense HELP and you'll find out what to do.
I noticed the same thing even while the outage on Saturday was still ocurring. Many of my pages that had stable ads for over a year started displaying ads with little relavance. I was even moved to throw some of them into the filter... but as we were still in outage mode that wasn't an option. :-(
Anyway, over the past couple of days I've been using the preview tool to seek out renagade ads and submit them to the filter. I would suggest this as your first course of action... unless there are just too many. I found that eliminating a dozen or so brought my targeting pretty much back in line.
Chapman
BTW, Welcome to Webmaster World!
Chapman
This kind of goofiness happens every few months and usually gets fixed after a while, although it's annoying enough that I often pull the AdSense code from my root directory until things have settled down.
This kind of goofiness happens every few months and usually gets fixed after a while, although it's annoying enough that I often pull the AdSense code from my root directory until things have settled down.
That's been my experience too. I sometimes pull the ads from my homepage if it gets too bad. On rare occasions I think I've pulled the ads from a sub-index page also, but maybe only once or twice in nearly 3 years.
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As is usual with these Googley (non-cricket) things, my account seems to get hit first by updates and, obviously, comes out of whatever "alteration" is done first.
Mine first went screwy late last Wednesday and was off-target for all kinds of things until Saturday morning when it returned to "normal".
Was Sunday good because Google's algo "found" all my lost clicks etc, I have no idea, is Monday being the best day I've had since May a result of the "screw-ups"...no idea!
Unfortunately we have to live with whatever Google throws at us, the worst part about it is their denial of "having done anything different and their crappy canned repsonses".
The best thing though is being able to come here and have a great big bellyache about it all and read all the posts from people who are not suffering...until tomorrow:-)))
Monday being the best day I've had since May
Sadly, I've not been able to recover from Saturday, however, my Wednesday and Friday were super (go figure?)! Everything AdSense, for the moment, is severely depressed despite an elevation in traffic. I'm hoping, as the week progresses, that the record days from the first of the month come back for the second half.
The best thing though is being able to come here and have a great big bellyache about it all
Yup... let me have a Triple Bellyache with cheese! Gotta love WW: AdSense Division... Bellyaches 'R' Us!
Chapman
Double-check your keywords. They might be misleading AdSense. Also, you might experiment with other keywords and/or add more to "trigger" adsense. I've had this problem with a few pages of mine.
Earnings, so far, exceed daily totals for Sunday and Monday. Ad targeting is very good and steady. Even eCPM seems to be a bit elevated.
I can't imagine it was my late night bellyaching that did it... probably just things calming down after whatever the issues were on Saturday.
Hopefully, things are improving for you as well Webhog.
Now off to do something totally unrelated... for a change.
Chapman
I'm sure a G representative saw it while he was monitoring us and opened up the "faucet" just a bit because he/she felt bad for me! ;-)
Chapman
