This is for my own benefit- keep forgetting hoe to type in the copyright symbol on standard keyboard and god forbid I write it down on peice of paper or put in text file on Desktop.
To get the copy right to appear type Alt+0169 ( numbers must be types in using number keyboard) symbol will appear when you lift from alt key.
I wrote about the mystery of why a few pages on one of my blogs were only showing AdSense public service ads or no ads at all in earlier post, Google Adense Ads Not Showing Up or Appearing as Public Service Ads.
I did report the problem and was pleasantly surprised at ow quickly they fixed. Took them about a week and I thought they would never fix , ignore or fix months from now.
They could give me no reason why the problem happened- this is basically the email I received:
Thanks for your patience. Our team was able to restore the AdSense ads to
your site. I’ve reviewed your pages and verified that ads are up and
running again. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I wasn’t comfortable with the wait and see if it fixes itself. Time waiting for it to adjust is time not making money and doesn’t cost more than a few minutes to send off an email requesting help.
One of the biggest problem in a downward or stalled economy is the perception. For most people nothing has changed, They have the same job and same mortgage and gas and food prices have been high for a while now.. but all the news and media play to our fears and we “feel” poor. When people feel poor they stop spending and this makes situation worse.
Some say the answer is get people to spend more. It is ironic that CNN and CNBC pundits go on ad nauseum about the horrible worsening economy yet run constant commercials to buy buy buy.
I am actually and advocate of spending less and living simply and think we have become as a society victims of our own success.
Yuppies and DINKS had kids and wanted to keep all their toys and jobs. Parents a work means money for daycare and low paying day care jobs and parent guilt which lead to parents spending $500.00 on video consoles and yearly trips is Disney World.
I suppose that is a whole other post but now we have ended up in a crappy economy and are starting to pick up the cheque for the free lunches of the past 10 years or so.
At any rate- what does this mean to ME?
My AdSense earnings are not meeting my projected targets. My CTR seems a little low and EPC also down.
AdSense is so tricky and hard to figure what exactly is the actual problem. Are my blog boring and readership down? More people know how to implement SEO on their bogs and websites and more people going after the same pie?
I can use analytics to figure most of it out and from my numbers nothing much has changed and my conclusion is that ADWords ads are costing less because people are spending less on advertising. For some reason in any kind of a cash crisis small businesses will slash their advertising budgets first.
This is the time of year when my AdSense ads will start to go though the roof with all those Christmas dollars waiting to be spent. I think Advertisers are frightened no on is buying or will buy and are hedging their bets and waiting to see what happens in the coming weeks.
I have still not had a response from Google. I ha identified 5 pages on one of my sites where Google Adsense Ads have been replaced by Public Service ads or no ads at. there are about 1500 pages on the blog with problem and the 5 pages that are not showing ADSense ads have related terms. They are all about the same topic. which see,s too much to be a coincidence. I am suspecting that the pages MAY have been mistakenly banned because of keyword stuffing. This seems to be the only thing that can make sense. If it we something going with scripts on my pages would be on wider variety of pages and not just on the 5 that deal with a single particular topic.
I am going to have to find out if the pages have been “banned” from Adsense. I would have thought that if one page was bad they would pull on the ads. I am having trouble finding out what exactly are the repercussion of a banned page and if a whole site is affected or not.
I have been toying with idea of just adding a redirect and putting pages on new URL within the blog. I am also not sure if by “fixing” the page it will automatically be “unbanned” or if I have to manually request or submit.
I am annoyed because I have done nothing wring and don’t; want to fix a age that isn’t broken. I also don’t want to further tick Google off.
ARGH..
I may just ignore for a few days and see if Google ever gets back to me and let them tell me best way to solve problem.
