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I have had AdSense turned off on the English side for a couple months, as it frequently showed off-topic ads. Having recently discovered the "ignore" tag for section targetting, I decided to give that a try to see if it will improve the odds of the ads matching the content.
Now, having turned AdSense back on for the English side, I recognize that it will be a couple hours before it gets on target (supposedly).
But, here is the odd thing... On the Spanish side, ads appear in, you guessed it, Spanish. Good. Right now, on the English side, half the ads are appearing in... French!?
While I did have plans to add a French version at some point in time, I have not yet done so, and nothing on the site in any way indicates anything in French, nor any plans to do so.
Very, very weird.
For example, when I surf around the net for BLUE, and then go to my site about RED, I still get ads for BLUE, because I searched for BLUE. (stupid example, but I'm kind of tired).
Been running the spanish page now about 2 weeks and it gets horribly low traffic. How long does it take for the spanish version to "catch on"?
So, if you're adding ignore tags as a test, you have to be REALLY patient...
If you have surfed on french sites, adsense can customize ads to reflect that - no matter what the site is about (or in what language it is).
Well, I don't speak or read French, and don't recall browsing any French sites at any point in recent memory.
Properly encoded for the language
What do you mean by "properly encoded"? Do you mean character encoding or do you mean that you define the language used in the HTML?
Just curious, you say you have a spanish translation. I recently hired a translator and translated a page that is super popular on the english site.Been running the spanish page now about 2 weeks and it gets horribly low traffic. How long does it take for the spanish version to "catch on"?
I don't remember. I initially did it all as part of a site redesign.
How easy is your Spanish page to find? On each of my English pages, there is a link to the Spanish version of the same page, and vice versa.
I don't really remember, but it seems like it wasn't too long before the Spanish pages began getting traffic. I did notice that fresh Spanish content will perform better in AdSense than older content, even stuff that isn't time sensitive. The English pages seem to be consistent, regardless of age, as long as they are not time-sensitive.
I had planned to do some PR for the Spanish version of the site, but never got around to it, so any traffic was the result of search engines and organic traffic and so forth.
What do you mean by "properly encoded"? Do you mean character encoding or do you mean that you define the language used in the HTML?
I defined the language in the HTML tag.
I defined the language in the HTML tag.
That should be enough in my experience, however as you said it may be a problem initially. In the few days since you posted, has the issue resolved itself or are you still seeing French?
In the few days since you posted, has the issue resolved itself or are you still seeing French?
No, I don't see any French ads any more.
I'm not sure, but I think at least some of the French ads may have been Google's own ads for AdSense. I was reminded of that when I just checked the site and saw that some of the pages that were showing the French ads have ads for Google AdSense.
