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Not that I'm terribly concerned about his site, I was more in a panic as why Google would do such a thing between my laughing and snickering. The rest of his site seems to still be on target, so I run to my site which seemed to be on target.
It's 12 hours later and he's still peddling Bulgaria, funniest thing I've ever seen but how in the heck would something like this happen in the first place?
Not that I care for him, I just wouldn't want to be selling Bulgaria on my site :)
Thanks
John
Did you have a look at his source code?
Trust me when I say Bulgaria shows up no where on the page, I always VIEW SOURCE then scan. Now I'm also seeing ads in other languages too, it would be hysterical if I didn't think it could happen to me too.
The only thing new I noticed was he just installed AdBrite on his site, maybe he's being punished.
Just curious when you say competitor does he sell related items or is it another adsense publisher in your same nich space?
I sell a few things but I don't think he sells anything, he's mostly chasing after my ad revenue in terms of direct advertisers and AdSense. Constantly nipping at my heels but so far I'm still winning.
I actually think he's trying to help me as I once thought I was the ultimate ad whore with my site but he's totally prostituted his once nicer looking site. If ads were itchy bumps he'd have the measles.
Makes 0 sense.
The site you're looking at probably catches a lot of traffic from that neck of the woods - hence the ads. That's the bottom line.
It's supposed to geo-target and I'm sure not interested in Bulgarian phone rates
Maybe it’s just some delay with the AdSense bot. He could have changed his content recently and the AdSense bot is late in reindexing the page.
Not really - the page is pretty stagnant except for the ever expanding proliferation of affiliate links.
Things seem to be returning to normal. It looks to me like AdSense cycles through my sites every 5 or 6 days trying new ads.
I wish they would use some system which tells them which ads people are clicking on and just leave them there.
Adsense targetting can be very stange at times!
On the targetting topic I'm glad to announce that my page on organizing the home and getting rid of clutter is no longer showing ads for truck and van parts. I could not find anything on the page that would be in any way related to such ads. I almost took adsense off that page but I'm glad I waited because it's on target now.
Are there ways you can work this to your advantage?
I love both cities. I used to work as a musician in SF.
I there no opportunity here? (there) -Larry
They have suddenly become EFV's competitor :)
A website about Bulgaria is probably linking to him, and thus causing that ad targeting. Websites linking in can have an effect on the targeting, in my opinion.
I have noticed that too, effect of IBLs. I think Adsense system is always trying newer things both at website level and algo level. One thing is for sure the function to maximize is Google's profit.
anyway, my CTR has dropped by %50, and i checked couple of pages and Adsense is wayyy off.
Some web hosting message displays, no web site.
Hope this keeps up.
