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Google and other industry pro's claim that advertising space is getting rare. But almost all of my (and others) second (let alone third) ad spaces remain empty for pretty much any given content under the sun.
How does that fit together? I am considering to delete the secondary boxes again, empty looks ugly and does not contribute to the user value of my sites.
Is there a way to use the collapsible script AND an alternative ad at the same time?
Somehow distribution is overwhelmed I believe, throughout issue, more than a burn rate issue really.
One one site all 12 ads are filled at all times. These are all major, deep pocket types.
The last day or so has seen this drop quite dramatically with from what I see is quite mis yet not totally unrelated targetting.
On many pages we are now only getting one image or two ads in the first unit.
When we had just the one skyscraper we would normally get four or is it five highly targetted ads.
May remove one of the ad units to see if targetting improves.
Google and other industry pro's claim that advertising space is getting rare. But almost all of my (and others) second (let alone third) ad spaces remain empty for pretty much any given content under the sun.
You're falling into the trap of taking a macro truth (not enough advertising space) and attempting to apply it to a specific micro situation (your sites lack of ads). That is a logic error. Its like hearing the experts say India is overcrowded, but then you go to a remote Himalayan area of India to have a look around and see few people, at which point you conclude the experts were wrong.
I tend to agree with markus007 when he stated that "[s]oftware has enough problems just getting 4 ads to match to a site, matching 12 is way harder. I think its not a inventory problem, but instead a software problem."
I think Google is wrong in not allowing the same ads to show multiple times. If it is a well-matched ad, I want it to show at the top and the bottom of my page.
At first there was only an image ad at the top, and a two ad banner at the bottom, I read the whole page turned away and then when I look back at the computer a skyscraper has appeared.
So maybe as well it just takes a long time for some of the ads to appear, I had already finished reading the page so if I had used the back button would never have seen the skyscraper.
