Charity ads very slow to disappear

Many sites (including premium) showing charity ads

[whats up skip]

Over the last two weeks I have notice that many new pages on our site are showing charity ads for a week or more after the page was created. Obviously this is not good for revenue, nor does it encourage the creation of new content. The big problem is that our site and many others it is the new pages that are visited the most.

I wrote to Google about this and just received a standard rubbish email!

I have noticed that is not just our site that is affected. Some other premium sites that appear to be running Google ads are also suffering. Have a look at the site on hardware by Tom and one on space that comes out daily. These are two very serious sites (PR8+).

[Jenstar]

PR doesn't mean a thing to the AdSense mediabot, so it shouldn't have any affect on how quickly a site is crawled.

Often, other sites could have other issues at hand with why AdSense ads are not being targeted. It can take up to a few days to target new pages. With premium partners, they have different ad settings, including sensitivity, which means you will often see PSAs, particularly on news stories. There are trigger words, so even a seemingly boring article about a microchip could have something in it that triggers it and shows PSAs only. It is hard to judge why you are seeing PSAs on any site but your own.

I have been adding new pages, and even those added today are now showing targeted ads. But these are pretty active pages. Perhaps page views per page is coming into play when targeting ads, it might not be the first page view that sends mediabot running (as it has been), but a second or a third page view.