Ads in English on French page

[Elitefx]

We just opened a new adsense account today, for our educational and scholar web site.

Their is enormous content on this site, and 95% of it is in French. Now 95% of the adds are showing in English... Is this a problem? Or do I need to wait a few hours/days for the bots to properly scan the site?

[atreides9999]

Give it a few days. I'd say even a week.

If your site is mixed language they will attempt to show the language of that actual page.

Also note that it might show a different language for different people based on country or browser language. I'm not sure about this.

If the problem doesn't fix itself, you can contact google support, and they will give you a new line for your adsense code to override the automatic language selection. If you do this, they state that the language you choose must match the main language of that page.

I have a mixed language site, and adding this line of code has fixed all problems.

[Elitefx]

Thanks a lot, i might just try to get that line of code then...

[ecmedia]

It is a problem that affects websites with more than one language or that choose a name from a foreign language as the domain name (just to sound cool or to emphasize that they have a connection with that country).

Then there are advertisers who buy domain wide ads in a language and you will always see them even though they are useless to a reader.