Adsense Ads Stop Working?

[donthomas]

Adsense ads on one of my biggest sites stopped working yesterday in middle of afternoon.... My site is split into 2 parts.. a forum and a regular main page using wordpress...both have been fine, with no unusual activity..

Google adsense on my other sites are working ok still.. Any idea what would cause this? I havent received any emails from google about it. It happened a few months back but it corrected itself after 4 or 5 hrs.. But now i am going on almost a full day now...I tried adding fresh new ad.. no luck.. Any suggestions?

thanks!

[Ilse]

Perhaps they banned your site from displaying Google ads?

[donthomas]

Originally Posted by Ilse

Perhaps they banned your site from displaying Google ads?

Wonder why that would happen? I thought it might have been something with the coding. I have noticed in recent months, ads wouldnt be loading all the way or not at all.. sometimes for a few hrs, then it would be back.

But my account and other sites are still working ok.. Wouldn't they send an email regarding this? And since the account isnt banned. If there is an issue, is this easy to resolve? or are google still major pricks about not budging on anything? i remember a few yrs ago they were like that..


thx for the reply...

[donthomas]

was just logged in adsense and i went to the diagnostic thing.. and it had a few errors in there.. saying a robots.txt wasnt found when its there.. and another saying the URL was blocked..

for a URL it had something like this.. i put SITE URL instead of the domain...

http:/ / www. facebook. com/ plugins/ like. php? action= like&channel_url= http%3A%2F%2Fwww. SITEURL. com%2Fnews-article

[paulgl]

robots.txt missing has nothing to with anything.
In fact, most people should not even have one, or
at least just a blank one. Search Bots look for the robots.txt
by design first. Not found, no big deal. Webmasters just
can't stand to see errors, so they panic.

Google not being able to go through the facebook like button
is a non-issue as well.

Either your pages now have adsense disabled, or you have other
coding issues. That would not mean you are banned, just the
pages.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the
adsense bot does anything via the robots.txt. It tries to go
through the page you have the adsense on. You can put
adsense on pages that are not indexed or crawled yet by the
regular googlebot.

Paul

[donthomas]

Originally Posted by paulgl

robots.txt missing has nothing to with anything.
In fact, most people should not even have one, or
at least just a blank one. Search Bots look for the robots.txt
by design first. Not found, no big deal. Webmasters just
can't stand to see errors, so they panic.

Google not being able to go through the facebook like button
is a non-issue as well.

Either your pages now have adsense disabled, or you have other
coding issues. That would not mean you are banned, just the
pages.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the
adsense bot does anything via the robots.txt. It tries to go
through the page you have the adsense on. You can put
adsense on pages that are not indexed or crawled yet by the
regular googlebot.

Paul

Thanks Paul! yah, i dunno.. I havent received any email from google yet regarding this..

As for coding issues.. I dont see any coding issues.. like i said before.. half of the site is a SMF forum and the other half is a wordpress based site.. never had any problems or phishy activity.... I made a post on adsenses official forum, but no reply...