Adsense targetting to slow for news pages

Who reads 3 day old news articles? Hardly anyone!

[rubenski]

I recently decided to work on my site on a daily basis by adding a news section. I update it daily with 2 or 3 news articles. I have placed Adsense ads beneath the articles but it sometimes takes 2 or 3 days for the ads to become properly targeted.

Anyone else experienced this problem? The Mediapartners bot does visit the articles but it doesn't seem to do much targeting. I always get default ads that match the very general topic of my site (you know, the ones you always get before ads get 'really' targeted).

I suppose there is nothing I can do to speed up Adsense targeting other than sending a friendly request to G?

[edited by: rubenski at 6:47 pm (utc) on Sep. 20, 2004]

[Galtego]

I've been seeing many more of those general site-themed ad blocks on new pages beginning on Friday and continuing today. Sometimes it begins with a targetted set and then reverts to those general ones. This is unusual. Targetting is usually quicker, better, and more stable.

[rubenski]

Yes, I have had the same experience with Adsense displaying targeted ads and then untargeted 'general' ones again. Once in every +/- 10 page refreshes it will show the targeted ones and the other 9 times untargeted ones.

Some other issues that I considered resolved have returned too. One of my newer pages shows ads for "text writers", "translators' "language services" while there is not a single word on my page that could trigger there ads. Furthermore, I am positively sure there are plenty of ads available in the page's keyword area.

A third isssue is that one of my pages is not showing any ads at all, while it always used to. Here too, I am very sure there are ads available.

I have sent a mail to G asking them to have a look at the issues. Besides these issues Adsense has been great for me lately; Checks and payments come in time, stats are updated frequently and consistently and my earnings have been pretty stable on the high side.

[sailorjwd]

rubenski,

I have recently experience the same problem of a set of pages on same subject suddenly not displaying ads. This happened after experimenting with multi ad units on these 9 pages... the results were not good. So I removed them added ad units and soon after all ads stopped showing.

I contacted Adsense support twice and each time they say that there isn't anything they can do about it and it is likely that there simply aren't ads available anymore. Which is odd because once in a while when I refresh i will see ads! All this is doublely upsetting because this channel was my third highest paying channel.

[cyberair]

I have never had that problem except for now in a new channel I have created. However, what is different of this channel from the rest, is that the google code is inserted in a global php file that is over 140kb and calls on many functions at the same time. Could it be that at the time the function for the Google is called, there still isn't content called?

[instinct]

I believe that in order to get better targeted adds on pages that haven't been crawled yet, the file and directory name are somewhat important.

I had adds for a certain keyword constantly reappearing on my pages (The keyword wasn't on the page anywhere).

I finally realized that the keyword was the directory name where the file was located. Of course title and heading tags are probably important as well, but as I said, in my case the directory name superceded everything else it seemed.

Hope this helps.

[rubenski]

@Cyberair: No, that is not your problem. Javascript is interpreted client-side when the page has already been built by the servers-side scripting part.

@Instinct: Good tip! I suddenly realize that the ads for translators and text writers could be triggered by the word 'tekst' (tekst = text in Dutch) in my domain name.

Google answered today: the are looking into the issue and will get back to me asap.

[blairsp]

Once in every +/- 10 page refreshes it will show the targeted ones and the other 9 times untargeted ones.

You need to be careful doing this. Google may take the view that you are trying to artificially increase your PV's which is a strict no, no under the TOS

[rubenski]

I use my own site a lot. I make about 200 clicks on my own site per day. I can hardly imagine Google is taking action against this. Except for a tiny amount of bandwidth it's costing them nothing. Thanks for the tip anyway :)

[birdstuff]

I make about 200 clicks on my own site per day.

I hope you don't mean you're clicking on your own ads...

[rubenski]

No, I never click my own ads.

Targeting is quite horendous on some of my pages at this moment. I've seen this before so I trust it will go away and get better over time. Google is still looking in to the issue.