Still getting PSA's after 3 days

[triumph]

I've been running adsense for about 1 year on one of my sites. I just started a new site, inserted adsense, but after 3 days, I'm still getting PSA's.

Also, I'm running sitemeter to track visits. Would the mediabot show up in the logs?

[PhraSEOlogy]

Mediabot will show up in your log.

I have a site that is months old and still get PSA's on some pages. Be patient and look for mediabot visiting after a page has been requested.

[birdstuff]

I have one site with AdSense on over 2,000 pages, most of which show highly targeted ads. But there are a few pages that show my alternate ads no matter what I do to them.

There is nothing on these pages that is against the Google TOS, no keywords that typically could or would cause PSA's, no forbidden topics like casino, poern, etc.

It simply appears that the Mediapartners bot is a genius 99% of the time and an idiot the other 1%.

[jimmyboy]

I think it also depends on the keywords on the page. Some of my pages with 'so called high paying' keywords just show public service ads. I think google doesn't always want to show high paying ads on every site and instead shows just public service ads.
Pretty clever ;) Huh!

[darkmage]

You could try creating a new page on an existing/older site (use a new directory) and see how long it takes before ads show up.

BTW I've noticed that in the last day or two that new pages are not showing targeted ads (only defaults), but older pages are fine. In the past, targeted ads have appeared on new pages between a few minutes and hours of uploading them.

Google could be tweaking the bot or algo.

Anyone else experiencing delays with ads on new pages?

DM

[gmac17]

I'm having the same trouble. One of my sites that showed normal ads for the first month or so is now showing only PSA's. I thought perhaps the inventory wasn't there, but I see other sites showing adsense ads for the same terms.

any ideas?

[Jenstar]

I would start looking into a stop word issue. We have a lot of information on it here:

Various threads on stop words:
[webmasterworld.com...]
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Really good discussion with how it pertains to news sites:
[webmasterworld.com...]

And even more:
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[trader]

PSA's are the most annoying thing about adsense and drives me crazy. Many times I have a site with good traffic and well targeted adsense toward the site content and its url only to see PSA ads suddenly appear for no reason.

Usually, no changes were made to the site, often it's a static site, frequently page rank is not changed. Perhaps good adsense was up for a few mos but oddly gone one day and weeks later still PSA even after emailing Google about it and resending the site to be indexed again.

The next most distrurbing think G does is removing good targeted adsense and replacing it with non-relevant ads. For example, a real estate site which had relevant realty ads but mysteriously gets replaced with non-sensical domain name registrar ads even though the word domain and subject does not appear anywhere in the site!

Sometimes I think it seems with the above two issues almost like G does not truly want their adwords advertisers or adsense publishers to get clicks and revenue, though of course that must not be correct? Any feedback here with opinions on why it seems this why?

[gmac17]

Could it be site related - ie they don't think my site is good enough or something? It currently has a PR of 0 (long story) but I don't think that should matter - if they didn't like the site they would just not let me put ads on it at all.

[trader]

No, has nothing to do with G not liking my sites. The latest site (with good traffic I mentioned in my post above) but PSA's replacing older good adsense has a PR5 and been well indexed for some time. I also know there are lots of good adword advertisers as the site is about travel, sports, fishing and hiking, so that is not a factor. There must be more to this than is obvious. Anyone else know? Why is it G keeps it secret anyway and not tell us of the problem?

Also note to Jenstar, NO, this has nothing to do with stop words. Checked the site and there is not one stop word of the type mentioned in other threads there. I was positive that was not the problem but I checked anyway to confirm it.