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Foreign language ad in Adsense.

         

balour

9:09 pm on Oct 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I have an english site, and about 50% of the
Adsense ad display on the site are from
foreign language advertiser, not very relevant
to my location, but on target for the site topic.

It's a world travel site.

What I must put in the page to have more english
ad display on the site?

I want ad in the same language as the site.

PatrickDeese

9:39 pm on Oct 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

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> What I must put in the page to have more english
ad display on the site?

The problem is not Adsense, it is simply the bidder must have chosen to display his advert in all languages.

If you have a page about "Paris" don't be surprised if Ads for other languages appear that are targeting "Paris" as well.

The good news is that you go into your Adsense control panel you can block that site from your ads.

balour

12:36 am on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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More than 50% of the ads are not display on
the site language.

I will put the following meta tag in the header:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" Content="en">

and see the result.

balour

12:55 am on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I just add the meta tag in the header, and new ad
are mostly 100% site language, english.

Must try with other language.

howiejs

1:16 am on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Does:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" Content="en">

Force the ads into english?

can use other language codes in this tag to force language of the ads?

balour

2:22 am on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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You must use the specific language of the site/page.

Don't know what done when no ad inventory with
this language.

Nikke

9:55 am on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" Content="en">

You could also change your html so that the <html> tag reads <html lang="en">

I never use the meta http-equiv tag and all my Swedish pages are listed under Sites in Swedish.

However, that doesn't mean that the pages won't have ads in English, Geman, Danish and Dutch since there are advertisers bidding for any language and any location.

Nikke

howiejs

2:29 pm on Oct 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Now are the ads controlled by:

where your site is hosted? (country)

what language the page content is in?

where your user is coming from country wise?

My earlier question - does adding a language tag in your header change the ads?

balour

3:51 pm on Oct 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Now, after adding the language tag, must of the
ads display are english tag, for news pages,
not already indexed.

For page already indexed, some display ads (50%)
are in non-english. Can't tell for site visitors.

RonPK

7:51 pm on Oct 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Balour, use the AdSense preview tool to find out what visitors in other countries see.

My site is in Dutch, but I sometimes see ads in Danish, German, Italian and English. All pages have <html lang="nl">.
One of the pages is in English, with <html lang="en">, and even I (in the Netherlands) get to see English/American ads.