adsense bots overslept - 13,5h late

14 hours and I'm still waiting

[muszek]

It's been 14 hours since I've published new pages and they still display "general" ads for my site (not PSA's, but ads that are "relevant" to my home page... and in fact are not relevant at all :P ).

How long can it take?
I've read here that the more popular the site, the more quickly they come... my daily average is 25k impressions.

Oh... and what tool do you use to search through your raw logs?

[DamonHD]

Hi,

I have seen the Google Mediabot get it right for almost all my pages after a few weeks, but amazingly sometimes after a few seconds.

I have worked hard to improve the the relevance of links (and link text) off the page so as not to confuse the Mediabot, and ad relevance does seem to be getting better.

I get a slightly lower number of impressions/day than you.

Rgds

Damon

[uncle_bob]

I don't think it's a good idea to expect immediate results when you add/change pages. I'd leave the pages for a week before checking how relevant the ads are. As long as you are not getting PSAs then google should eventually give you better ads.

[Macro]

>>I have seen the Google Mediabot get it right for almost all my pages after a few weeks, but amazingly sometimes after a few seconds

Same here. When it takes a few weeks it can be frustrating especially when the ad spots are filled with really "wrong" ads (the best I can explain this is like having George Bush ads on a Kerry website).

[Matt Probert]

Oh... and what tool do you use to search through your raw logs?

On the server, tail, more and grep. On the office machines we tend to use Microsoft Word - the log files are pretty large, > 600 mB for a week, so we split them up using Perl.

Matt

[muszek]

I'm generally having problem with targetting.
My site's most important feature is a guide that's over 40 pages long (when pasted into MS Word, standard settings). My visitors translated it to 4 different languages and I had that mentioned each time new translation appeared (3x on the main page, in links that have fonts enlarged in external css file - does it matter?). And now my standard ads are all those translation services, which is totally mistargetted.

And that web tool (it itself gets an average of 12k pageviews a day) displays the most horrible ad I've ever seen - reusable tampons! And that's the reason I wanted to seo it a bit... I spent 2 days on writing a tool for managing "random thoughts" being easily called in any script along with an appropriate adsense channel. I wrote 4 distinct pieces of text... and until now, 16 hours after visiting them for the first time, I still get "Polish translations", "Hungarian translations", etc.

How about if I switched an ad size every couple of hours? Will it speed up the process of targetting?

[Macro]

muszek, I've tried masking my equivalent of "translations" and made that word/service into a gif but it's still taking weeks for mediabot to work out relevant ads. It will get there in the end, I'm sure.