Adsense in other languages feature launched

[eaden]

We are excited to announce the rollout of AdSense for a limited number of non-English languages. Existing AdSense publishers now have the option of placing their ad code on pages with content in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, providing that these pages comply with the Terms and Conditions and program policies.

Enjoy..

[google.com...]

[onlineleben]

After being rejected (put on hold in Google speak) mid July I reapplied for my german site yesterday evening.
Again the application was rejected with reasons like "new applications to the AdSense program be for sites that are primarily or entirely in English"
This is contrary to the announcement referred to in the first post of this thread.
Any idea how many is a "limited number of non-English sites"?

[justageek]

Yep. New text on the page of a couple year old company.

[WebWalla]

People should know that new publishers for non-English sites are gettign rejected for the moment. The new languages are only available for existing AdSense publishers. This has been clearly stated in one of G's rejection emails.

[daugava]

I could use some Russian ads, pretty please :)

I have tons of russian pages, dating as far back as 1996, but I sort of became unmotivated about updating them, since they don't bring any profit.

Andy

[Yidaki]

>People should know that new publishers for non-English sites are gettign
>rejected for the moment. The new languages are only available for existing
>AdSense publishers.

Damn, what a lucky guy i am! I've been accepted with my english sites on September, 30. Next day morning (yesterday) after i found this great news here i quickly put the AdSense codes on my german sites too. The ctr's are not (yet) as good as for the english pages (can't check 100% but guessed by timezones) but the german ads are ~70% pretty targeted (A bit too early to draw final conclusions though).

[Kinitz]

Yidaki writes:

i quickly put the AdSense codes on my german sites too.

Yidaki, could you tell me what do you have in a place of "Ads by Google" text? How it is in German language? (or just sent me sticky mail so that I could see it myself) I need to have this information.

[Yidaki]

Kinitz, it says Ads by Google even if the ads are in german.

[WebWalla]

Yidaki, could you tell me what do you have in a place of "Ads by Google" text?

I can guarantee that the text will be the same English text. That's what shows on my Spanish ads.

[bignet]

For testing I put adsense on a polish paege on mey seite.
Thn got one ad in Polish. Am I askin gfor truble if I put ads in non suporttted lingos?

[johannes]

Come Scandinavian languages as well, come fast!

I agree, Swedish should be next. I wrote to adsense support but they refused to give any schedule.

bignet, in the adsense faq there is some talk about non-English websites, but the writing is weak. For experimenting I guess it's ok.

[bignet]

4. Are non-English websites eligible for Google AdSense?
At this time, Google AdSense has limited non-English language support. New applications for participation in the program must be for sites with the majority of their content in English. However, existing AdSense publishers may also place their ad code on pages with content in French, German, Italian, or Spanish, and have targeted ads served in the appropriate language to these pages.

from Google adsense faq
When it says new applications must be for sites mainly in Enlgish does it not mean that you can plaace your ad in non-english paege of your mainly engglish siete?
But the second part add to my confusion.
Alos why would G serve Polish ad in the tested Polish page if thaats not alowed?

[Yidaki]

>When it says new applications must be for sites mainly in Enlgish
>you can plaace your ad in non-english paege of your mainly engglish siete?

Only for the supported languages. English page means english language content. Supported foreign languages currently are French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

>Alos why would G serve Polish ad in the tested Polish page if thaats not alowed?

It's because they are delivering geo targeted ads. I had german ads showing at my english sites if visitors connected from germany - before the system was available for non-english pages. It was just one day before the expanded the language support though. It might be a good sign that you saw a polish ads - could indicate that we'll see AdSense for polish pages in near future too ...(?)

[bignet]

the siete aned paege i am talikng abuot are hostted in Lon-DonUK. I am alos in Lon-DonUK when axesssing the pagge

do you thinnk it is geoo targgettin?

[bignet]

btw the tessted pagge eihter showws ONE polish ad (spacce alow 4 four) or the adz about niw-ddad-gorilaas-ets

[sudden]

The small print makes it useless for the majority of german / spanish (etc.) webmasters at the moment. I donīt see why they do not open AdSense for new web sites that are completely in a foreign language.

Any hint how long this will take?

[newsphinx]

Chinese should be the next language! I keep waiting.

[wwuser]

My site has all the languages that are supported, but it's still showing only English ads. It may be because the pages are dynamically generated (the content is pretty much the same, but the language changes, based on the request or cookie). Dynamic generation would be the general reason, of course, but there's got to be a way around it. I do have complete control over http headers.

I'm using UTF-8 for everything -- in the non-english pages, I set the headers like so (for German, e.g.),

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:29:05 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) ...
Content-Language: de
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

and all the text is in German in the UTF-8 character set. I still get English ads, though :(

Any ideas as to what I could change?

[irock]

newsphinx,

Agreed! BUT AdWords doesn't even support Chinese... how can AdSense support Chinese?

[WebWalla]

My site has all the languages that are supported, but it's still showing only English ads.

wwuser - remember that Google uses geo-targeting and since you're in Texas it's highly likely that you'll be seeing English ads whereas users in other countries will be seeing them in other languages. Since I'm in Spain you could sticky me your URL and I'll check if you have any Spanish ads.

[wwuser]

OK, and thanks! - I sent you the URL -- there *is* some Spanish spoken in Texas, though ;)

[WebWalla]

I can see the last ad of the 4 shown in your skyscraper in Spanish. Why only 1? Probably because there are very few ads in Spanish for the main keywords you're targeting. But at least the one ad that's shown proves that Google's geo-targeting works.