Adsense not showing on certain pages?

thehobbster

thehobbster

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I've got a site of about 15 pages and it's starting to generate some serious money. So I've turned to it and am really picking over the on-page details. In this process I came across something I remembered from months ago...

I have three pages that Adsense refuses to show up on. I have the Quick Adsense plug-in on there, and it's formatting the blocks as if the ads are there, but they aren't showing. Just blank spots.

So I switched to the WhyDoWork Adsense plug-in. Same exact issue only on those pages. So it's not the plug-ins.

These pages are just like the others. They have 500+ words very targeted on the same topic as the rest.

Anyone have any ideas as to what the issue is? I thought about adding those tags to the HTML that focus adsense only on certain parts of the text, but it's just not necessary. It's fully on topic.

Anyone encountered this? It's pissing me off.
 


It happens to me when more than 3 ads are called to the page. Are you running sidebar ads?
 
I suggest you remove the link bars and sidebar ad to see if that fixes it.

Also double check your plugin settings to make sure that there isnt anything effecting those certain pages.
 
I tried everything. None of it has worked. I tried things suggested at other forums too to no avail. Creating new ad blocks, etc.

I searched google and found a thread on the Adsense forums where this guy said if he ads a "modifier" such as ?x at the end of his url it loads the page identically but this time the ads show. Someone suggested this could be that those single pages were banned for inappropriate content, but I assure you this is not the case.

Does this give any ideas? I am leaving contacting Adsense help as the last resort.
 
I'm thinking now that this could be a case of stop-words being on the page. It's a stretch, but I could see how the bots could misconstrue the pages *if* the words are there. I'm going to fine-tooth comb them in a second.
 
So everyone will know, here is how this resolved:

I was hesitant to contact Google as previous attempts have returned automated responses months later. Well, they got back to me within a couple hours. They said, and I paraphrase...

"You were right. Our bot crawled your page and categorized it as negative. We manually reviewed and manually fixed it for you. The ads should be served on those pages now."

And they are! Woohoo! What a surprise. So yes, it was stop words, and yes, the bot did it without human involvement.
 
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