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Bobby · Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 764

Has anyone heard of Google contacting someone with charity ads being displayed and making suggestions for getting actual ads instead of the charity ads? I would think that would be in Google's best interest along with the webmaster.

I have a site that is very specific and loaded with the appropiate key words in the domain, meta tags, title, text, etc.

I know there are a number of advertisers for this keyword because they appear when I search for the word at Google.

AdSense has been on the page for two weeks now and I'm still getting only charity ads.

Bobby

AllanGardyne · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 3:58 am Post subject:

If you haven't already, you could try writing to the AdSense support email address and asking for suggestions. I've found them prompt and helpful when I've asked questions.

I'd be very interested in know what they advise.
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TutorialForums · Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 10 Location: California

The problem is almost certainly that your pages are dynamically created and pass more than 1 variable (or maybe 2 at most) through a query string in the URL (namely and especially a "session id", which most spiders are quite unfond of hehe). If in fact your site is "static" code, then yes there's probably a problem (possibly on their end)... it's hard to be certain without seeing your site. Another possibility is that something on your server is keeping the AdSense spider from indexing your pages.... this could be something in an invisible ".htaccess" file, in your robots.txt, or deeper in the server's configuration, which the server administrator would have access to. For info on how to possibly fix this, see this page: https://www.google.com/adsense/faq#basics2

If the issue is dynamic pages though (which is an issue I have on one of my own sites, a database-driven community forum) then right now the only option I know of is to either simplify your coding so that only 1-2 variables need to be passed in the url (and no session id - use cookies instead if possible)... or to use some form of url-rewriting technique to make your dynamic urls into static urls as the page is generated (check sitepoint.com for an article on that, I dont recall the url at the moment - it's late here hehe).

Hope this helps a bit... I'm personally open to any suggestions on how to improve AdSense on dynamic sites.
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Frank Nordberg · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 114 Location: Norway

TutorialForums · Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 10 Location: California

Very interesting... I'm not sure why it's working well for you with so many variables, though not for most dynamic sites I've seen. If you happen to discover anything, please let me know. I'm guessing that the most deciding factor is the presence of (or lack of) a session ID in the address.

Thank you for the link to your site by the way... I've definitely bookmarked it - I am an avid pianist/musician myself Very Happy

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Harith Al-Jibury · Joined: 11 Jul 2003 Posts: 37 Location: Denmark

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