Adsense Ad for My Website on my Own Site!

[chrism]

No idea whether this has been happening for a while, but as i'd never seen it before i'd assumed Adsense prevented it.

I've just had a look at the front page of one of our sites, and staring back at me is one of my own adwords ads, which should point straight at the page its being served on! (Of course I can't click it to verify)

I've been running adwords and adsense for years and never seen this happen before - and before anyone says, it's not intended for arbitrage.

Does anyone know if this has always been possible? I'm also seeing the same ads in both ad units (there are 2) on the same page so i'm wondering if the issue from a few weeks back is rearing its head again.

I'm also seeing unusually low EPC today too after stability for about 6 months, but that may not be related.

[zuses]

Maybe it is interest-bazed add

[IanCP]

Of course I can't click it to verify

Right click and copy link location to a text editor.

Put your site as example.com in the "competitive ad filter" of AdSense setup and see if that helps.

Obviously the keywords in your campaign lead to your pages.

[typo]

[edited by: IanCP at 7:09 pm (utc) on June 1, 2009]

[chrism]

Thanks Ian - that's the first thing I did. Strangely I've just run a placement report on adwords - it appears it's only happened in the last couple of days, perhaps something's changed, or maybe my quality score has always been keeping my ads from appearing in the past.

Either way - I'm a bit surprised G will allow an ad to appear on the page the ad points to!

[chrism]

I guess thats a possibility Zuses - thanks.

Perhaps it would explain why I've not seen it before.

[HuskyPup]

Does anyone know if this has always been possible?

It's not supposed to happen however I have seen it several times. Duplicate ads are also not supposed to appear but this happens regularly on my sites especially image ads.

[Green_Grass]

Happens all the time. Block your sites in the competitive ad filter.

[leadegroot]

So, can you give us data on what percentage of the click price you got? :)

[chrism]

hehe good question - if only analytics would drill down to ad level!

[fsmobilez]

>>Happens all the time. Block your sites in the competitive ad filter.

Thanks for nice tip, it happened to me as well, google adsense ads showing my own website and also in adwords i got charged for it.

Really strange, google adwords can do this?