It doesn't matter, I know there are no hurries. But can anyone explain why it takes 10 minutes for changes to an ad's settings to take effect? just curious i guess.
jdMorgan
10:37 pm on Feb 13, 2010 (gmt 0)
Just guessing, but likely because G has to send the changes to dozens of datacenters and thousands of servers world-wide. It wouldn't surprise me if they queue up several "updates" and send them out together in batches, either, just to economize on bandwidth and processing at the ad-server end.
Jim
farmboy
11:47 pm on Feb 13, 2010 (gmt 0)
Years ago, I remember putting the code on a page and relevant ads would appear immediately. Nowadays AdSense is a lot more complex and "sophisticated" with their computers making lots more decisions. Maybe some sort of fraud protection is built in and is the reason for the delay.
But what do I know - I remember years ago when I had to walk to school in the snow, uphill, going and coming.
FarmBoy
kaz
11:55 pm on Feb 13, 2010 (gmt 0)
Jim, that makes sense. For some reason I couldn't wrap my head around an explanation but I can understand that. Plus I was wasting some of my time waiting for the ads to update :)
FarmBoy, I dunno. I still have some (old) adcode in my site that include the variables of html color. Switch that in and out and it is immediate.
IanCP
8:17 am on Feb 15, 2010 (gmt 0)
Switch that in and out and it is immediate
Switch it in, and leave it in, an possibly do better. OK I be a cynical old fellow.
johnnie
9:20 am on Feb 15, 2010 (gmt 0)
How about 'just because'.
we'll never get an authoritative answer anyways. Personally, I figure it has to do with propagation through different data centers.
kaz
3:14 pm on Feb 15, 2010 (gmt 0)
Switch it in, and leave it in, an possibly do better. OK I be a cynical old fellow.
Switch in out, and test - test - test, and possibly do better. Ok, I am an optimistic young guy. Have a good week Ian :)
