Anyone else get a Rejected ad requests warning?

[hiccupsheadache]

Got this message in my account:

"You have rejected ad requests, which will result in lost revenue"

When you click on the details link - it says "Rejected ad requests"


Ad unit "UNIT NAME" has been shown on "Incorrect sites", and the site is: "googleads.g.doubleclick.net"


I've searched google, and see a few others have this message - which has to be fixed by the 15 August 2012.


I havent changed my ads - or my site, so don't know why i've got this message.


Has anyone else got it, or had it before, or know any more about it?


Cheers!

[Kimkia]

Mine appears near the top of the Home page of my AdSense account. It says, in a big red bar that goes right across the page: "You have rejected ad requests, which will result in lost revenue. See details."

It's right above a yellow bar message informing me "Your ads have recently appeared on websites you haven't authorized." etc.

Oh, and there's a red "1 Alerts" box on the top right. You can't miss it.

[jbayabas]

I got rid of the Alert message by clicking x on the red bar.

Did you guys have a big decrease of revenue the last few days? Which day? Mine started on Saturday. I don't know if this alert is related to decrease of revenue or Adsense has a new panda update?

[Zivush]

Same here.
I think it is a bug on Adsense system if so many people receiving it lately.

[Elsmarc]

I don't know if it will help in diagnosis in this thread, but I have been calling Google AdSense code from "includes" files for static pages for years without problem, and I haven't gotten any messages or warnings.
However - Most of my main site is the forums which, obviously, are dynamic pages, but I don't run any includes on any dynamic pages.

[jackonaplane]

This started showing in my account too. It's showing a total of only 5 rejected requests out of hundreds of thousands of ad impressions, so I expect those 5 requests were anomalous rather than there being any problems with the code.

[netmeg]

I'm sure it's a bug of some kind if all these people got it at once. I would be very wary of blocking anything; better you wait it out. You also might check the Google forum where they actually have Google types.

[jabas]

Exact same thing here..

I don't use frames, but I have a frame buster.

[azlinda]

Elsmarc, my ads are all called from includes also.

[matrix_jan]

It's not a bug, It's just something new. If you follow the instructions there are couple of solutions. One of them is adding an extra line to your adsense ad code declaring the correct page address where the ad is intended to be shown. Personally I just clicked on the X and closed the red warning. If the ads are not showing up then the system is sensing an invalid activity on the loaders side(in my case ib.adnxs.com), the website is not listed in the trusted websites list and I have canonical tag set up(don't really understand the need to put the same canonical thing in each ad unit, unless the scraper deletes it on load). So to hell with it...

[LavingRunatic]

Ugh...Adding an extra line of adsense code to thousands of pages with 3 adblocks each is not something that seems like a good solution!

I'm not making any changes until this has settled for a few days. Probably a bug.

[RonS]

LavingRunatic that's what sed is very useful for. :D

[icedowl]

I just now got this message. I don't and never have used iframes. I'm not currently using includes as such, but am using a CMS that has areas that act like includes.

So, what do we do now? Sit and wait and see what happens?

[virtualreality]

Coincidence or not my revenue dropped after this warning message appeared. My Page CTR is usually around 2% now it is 1.30%. Also what is strange is "The errors listed below will result in blank ads being displayed on affected pages starting August 14, 2012. Please make sure that you fix these errors before then."

August 14, 2012? I got that on August 27, 2012

[petertdavis]

Just got this in my account today too, or just noticed it today. No frames here either.

[ember]

I found this in Help:

Some accounts incorrectly notified about rejected ad requests

Details: We recently changed the way our system surfaces alerts related to rejected ad requests. This has resulted in some publishers seeing an alert in their AdSense accounts about needing to fix rejected ad requests, though no action is required on their part.
We're quickly working to fix this so that only publishers who need to take action will see the alert. We hope to have this resolved in the next couple of days, and we'll update the known issues page when the update is live. If you are concerned about this alert, please check your account after that, and if you still see the notice, follow the instructions in the Help Center to resolve the issue. Note that the vast majority (over 90%) of publishers now seeing this notification will not see it after the fix. If the instructions in the Help Center don't seem to apply to you, you are probably one of the publishers who should not be seeing this alert notification.

[Kimkia]

Thank you, ember. I think this applies to me, and probably most, if not all, of those posting here.

[oliondor]

They are not even able to manage their network correctly and they date to close account without warning, hate them more and more !

[MrSavage]

Glad I read this. I have the same message.

[jbayabas]

thx ember.

My usual average revenue seems to be back since yesterday. I'm not sure if the drop of revenue that happened the last 3 days is related to this error. Very strange.

[LavingRunatic]

Thanks ember. I figured that such a message would surface. Glad I didn't do a bunch of work to try to fix it!

And @jbayabas, my revenue returned to normal levels yesterday too.

[virtualreality]

Alert message is gone from my account.

[LavingRunatic]

Mine too...and today my Adsense revenue has plummeted again. Coincidence?