Google ads show up only when I change page name

[Drazen_D]

Hi everyone,

I have a strange problem that shows only on few pages.

If you look here:
http://www.example.com/news/2007/02/07/gets_a.htm

you will get no google ads at all. I checked with people from 5 different countries.

Same page with slightly different URL:

http://www.example.com/news/2007/02/07/gets_new.htm

and you get Google ads.

The page is not blacklisted. It actually ranks OK.
if you enter <my keyword> into Google, this page show up as match 54 out of 74,900

Does anyone know what causes it?
We have several hundred articles with that same exact template - only different text - and this happens only to certain number of pages. If you rename the page - ads show. The problem is - those pages are already listed in all search engines and it would take a small forever to go through all pages and figure out which ones don't show Google Ads.

Any thoughts, theories and suggestions are appreciated.

Drazen

[edited by: jatar_k at 5:23 pm (utc) on Mar. 1, 2007]
[edit reason] removed specifics [/edit]

[Hobbs]

Drazen,
I'd remove those links as it is not allowed.

see page (a) at the bottom, ads show fine
see page (new) at the bottom no ads while it has ads at the top ok
those 2 pages are not identical.

[sailorjwd]

I see ads. And, to help you out I clicked on them 30 times.

[Drazen_D]

Edited?
"Removed specifics"? :)
Hmm... imagine going to a doctor and telling him you want to be cured but don't want to share the "specifics" of what the problem is :) I posted the same question on Google's forum and they had no problem with "specifics".

But thanks Hobbs and sailorjwd - now I know that some (although rare) people do get ads there.

I still get no Google Ads on the _a page and regularly get them on _new page.

Hobbs - when you say that those 2 are not identical - except for the title change - what other differences do you get? Maybe we are on to something...

Thanx

[edited by: Drazen_D at 5:47 pm (utc) on Mar. 1, 2007]

[greatstart]

I had a similar problem for about 12 hours on one day last week. Here is what I experienced and what I did to correct it.

On the root page www.example.com/ no ads were showing. What I did was create a page called home.html and redirected the traffic to www.example.com/home.html and the ads started appearing again!

Later that day, I removed the home.html and sent the traffic back to the root. Now everything is back to normal again. The ads are displaying like they should.

Why that occured in the first place, I will never understand.

[Hobbs]

I saw the same content on both, but it looked as if on one page where you say you see no ads, the ad unit is at the bottom of the page and it shows fine.

And on the other page where you say the ad shows fine at the top, there is a "buy text links" ad at the bottom too.

Those 2 pages are not the same.
I would check 2 things if I were you:
css
alternate ads

Added:
And yes, no link dropping allowed down here, nothing strange or funny, just different rules for different places, we don't like all the rules (insert angry face here) but have to honor them all the same.

[edited by: Hobbs at 6:49 pm (utc) on Mar. 1, 2007]

[sailorjwd]

I didn't really click on your ads.

We pay extra here to not be plagued by link droppers.

I've noticed that slight changes in the url name can have significant affect on google ability to show on target ads.

When putting up a new page I'll often put up 3 or 4 same versions with slightly different file names - usually one gets better ads immediately and that is the one I use.