Adsense only displays PSAs

thegirldiaries · #1 (**permalink**) 09-01-2009, 11:00 PM

For some reason adsense will only display Public Service Ads on my website, instead of actual ads. Anyone know why this could be happening? I am putting my ads on pages with content, and copying the code exactly as is.

I'm completely clueless on why this is happening.

Help anyone?

thegirldiaries · #2 (**permalink**) 09-12-2009, 08:37 PM

anyyyone?

awjm · #3 (**permalink**) 09-23-2009, 01:00 PM

I had this problem when i just started, I basically resubmitted my site to Google, that Didn't seem to work ... then i started to use very descriptive channels, and boom problem solved. no more PSA's

Are you using channels ?

Coder · #4 (**permalink**) 09-23-2009, 01:36 PM

That is an interesting idea about descriptive channels. I actually have trouble with targeting on a specific page on a site. I may try this to see if it helps with ad targeting.

awjm · #5 (**permalink**) 09-23-2009, 01:58 PM

Yeah, i was abit lazy at first to add channels, never really tought it made a diff, boy was i wrong

thegirldiaries · #6 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 08:52 PM

I added a channel and still nothing.

Coder · #7 (**permalink**) 10-08-2009, 07:00 AM

I see you are still having trouble with this so I have taken a closer look at your site.

Firstly, you have a robots meta tag in your page that said noindex/nofollow. I also checked your robots.txt and you are blocking all robots to all pages. Since Google tends to respect the robots.txt, this probably means that you are preventing the AdSense crawler from accessing your site. Ultimately, Google doesn't know what your site is about and therefore doesn't know which ads to show. As a side note, this means you are blocking any search engine that respects the robots.txt which will cause you trouble with getting indexed.

You seem to be using WordPress, I would be inclined to check the privacy settings in the control panel. This can be found in Settings >> Privacy. Make sure that you are not blocking robots.

Hope this helps

thegirldiaries · #8 (**permalink**) 10-17-2009, 06:57 PM

Hey! I also noticed this robots thing and was able to change it. The only think I don't get how to do is how to add meta tags to my site. They are in my header but it doesn't show up on google search for some reason

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