Adsense 'repeat' problem

Same adsense ads keep being displayed despite changing content

[golden14]

Help,
Can someone help me with my problem. I'm in the process of building a 250+ page site, the pages are content rich and in the main it's no problem, I have approximately six main sub-sections. I started out with a blank page so to speak - added my content and my code, saved, and then re-wrote the page with my next page of (different) content. Problem is out of around 30 of the pages I've written so far around a third display the same ads as each other even though content is very different and the pages are keyword rich. The pages where the ads are the same actually feature ads from the first ever site I built. Any ideas? Keen to hear from someone with more experience, need urgent help as the CTR ratio is outstanding for those ads that are relevant.

[ricky12123]

Make sure you have allowed the Google Media bot in robots.txt. When I was facing the same problem, I contacted google and they said your website is blocking the Google Media bot to crawl your website.

Though, Exact relevant ads appear on pages almost immediately if the website page is crawled by the google already. If that isnt crawled, link it on a blog regulary being visited by Google Bot...and get it crawled. Google Media bot though crawls every Active Page ever 15 days to match the content to the ads again.

[golden14]

Many thanks for the very prompt reply. I have a web log and have read up on linking, but how long does it take to get indexed on average via a blog link?

[ricky12123]

Maitain a blog and keep it pinging. In less than one week, you can get it crawled.

[mafew]

I think search engine friendly urls help as well.

[frox]

added my content and my code, saved, and then re-wrote the page with my next page of (different) content

If I understand correctly what you did, this might be the problem...

1) You create page 1.htm that speaks about "red widgets".

2) Save it

3) Preview it

4) Adsense bot is called when you see the ads, spiders the page and says "ok, page 1.htm speaks about red widgets"

5) Save as "2.htm"

6) Preview and edit it.

7) Admedia bot is called AGAIN, and says "ok, page 2.htm also speaks about red widgets"

8) You edit the page and change the contents to "blue bananas", and save it again.

9) When you go and see page 2.htm, more ads are requested from adsense, but this time the bot says "I already know page 2.htm, it speak about red widgets", and delivers wrong ads.

You are probably not doing exactly this, but your Blog software is doing something similar.

The remedy: after a certain (unspecified) amount of time the Adsense bot will re-spider the page anyway, so this should not be a permanent damage. If it's simple for you, changing ad format might (MIGHT) make the bot more willing to re-spider.

To avoid this problem in the future: while editing your pages, find a way to temporarily disable the ads so that you (and only you) do not see the ads, thus preventing "premature" spidering of the pages.

One very simple way (if you know how to do it) is to add the following line to your hosts file

127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com

Open the prowser again, and the ads will be temporarily unvisible (only for you!)

To return to normality, close the browser, comment the line away like this:

#127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com

and re-open the browser. NOW visit your new pages: you will request ads, the the bot will see the new pages in their final form and spider them with correct contents.

For more info about this, google for "hosts file".

That's a technique commonly used to block ads, you will just be using it for a particular need!

[golden14]

many thanks this is very useful info and you've guessed pretty much the way I've been working to date -seemed the easiest route to standardise the look and feel of my pages. I will take on board your advice before making any more pages. Not sure on the 'host' bit but I will take your advice and look it up. I had found this a problem on some of my other older sites, but this stopped being a problem after a while (as I now know it stopped being a problem when they became indexed, but found it frustrating at the time having spent hours building good pages and content). I'll drop a post as soon as I've cracked it. Thanks for the info again.