AdSense PSA's on Ask Jeeves

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AdSense PSA's on Ask Jeeves

jimbo_mac

11:33 am on Oct 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

Tried a few searches on AJ this morning, and noticed when clicking links to my pages, the ads come up as PSA's.

Anyone else have the same experience?

I'm getting OK traffic from AJ and this is really dissapointing.

jilla

12:40 pm on Oct 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

I've noticed this too and still have a lot of questions:

1) If sometimes there are psa and sometimes targetted on same pages then does that mean that either advertisors turned off payment for a while or not enough etc?

2) On the other hand, one page ONLY gets psa then I think that has to do with negative keywords which I still don't quite understand. If you have nothing on drugs, casino ,gambling adult and STILL get psas what does that mean?

seaboy

1:20 am on Oct 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

Does Ask Jeeves have your URL in their index without the www. maybe? I've noticed that sometimes www.domain.com will serve ads fine, but occasionally someone will follow a link to domain.com and see only PSAs.

jimbo_mac

11:45 am on Oct 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

Does Ask Jeeves have your URL in their index without the www. maybe?

No. Its in there with the www.

Looks like a frame problem, I clicked on the remove frame link in AJ and the pages show up with the relevant ads.

Anyone know how many people have AJ frames switched off by default - 1%?

robho

8:01 pm on Nov 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

Just noticed this thread - I was looking into causes of PSA/alternate ads (see [webmasterworld.com...]

As far as I can see, the first page that is framed never shows targeted ads - whether it's framed by AJ, About or elsewhere, although subsequent pages within the frame do show ads.

There seems to be something in the adcode that detects that the page has been referred by an external frame.

This problem (and the broken referrers on Mac MSIE 5.1x) account for the majority of the PSA/alternate ads on my site.

jimbeetle

8:20 pm on Nov 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

The frames are one of the silliest things that Ask has ever done and why they keep it up...well, only they know.

Put a frame buster similar to this (or one that calls the proper frame if your site uses frames) on all of your pages to stop this sophomoric behaviour.

<added>Jenstar just sent me a sticky regarding what she states below so, yes, be careful. The site with the frame buster does not use Adsense right now, applying this week. So, if this simple script doesn't work I'll be sure to give a holler because it's on a couple of thousand pages.</added>

[edited by: jimbeetle at 9:15 pm (utc) on Nov. 2, 2003]

Jenstar

9:01 pm on Nov 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

Do remember to test your frame breaker on one page before unleashing it on your entire site. Some of the codes will cause the AdSense iframe to load repeatedly, as the script breaks the iframe and the AdSense script reloads it.

Some frame breakers are fine, but others cause problems.

robho

9:07 pm on Nov 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

Put a frame buster similar to this

I did consider briefly adding a frame buster when I discovered the ads I was "missing" but then I did the maths - just how many clicks am I missing, given that this is only a few percent of the referrers, AND it's only the entry page (I'd hope they'd at least look at one more page on the site before clicking on an ad, so I'd expect the CTR there to be especially low).

The figure is only a tiny amount, not worth the complaints about the back button being broken. Nice to know the reason, but I'll live with it rather than annoy users.