Adsense problems.. please help

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I've been running Adsense on my sites for quite a few years now; never have been involved with suspicious activity.

For 2 days now, my ads stopped showing up on one of my sites, but without any notification whatsoever. The ads are fine on all my other sites; it's just my main one that's having the problem.

From my computer it just shows blank space instead of the ads; from other computers it shows "this page cannot be displayed" where they should be displayed.

I've contacted support only to be answered with a standard answer;

any idea what this may be?

Thanks,
Flavius
#search engine optimization #adsense #problems
  • Your symptoms lead me to think it on your server vs Google.

    You say Suspicious. Based on what?

    What type of site is it? WP or _____
  • What is the theme of the site? This happened to me several years ago on a site I ran that was making good Adsense money. All of a sudden the ads stopped with no explanation.

    Adsense finally got back to me and said it was because they didn't allow ads for that content. It was about BB guns. Nothing illegal, but Google is in California and is run by some seriously Liberal folks. They arbitrarily decided that BB guns were too close to handguns, I guess. So they cut it out.

    The funny and infuriating part is that they kept taking Adwords advertisers for BB guns, but they only showed them on the search network. LOL I pointed out this obvious hypocrisy, but they ignored it.

    I would press Adsense support for a reason if you rule out something on your end.

    John
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    • Wouldn't they serve PSA's if there was an issue of prohibited content?
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  • Julian, it's a poetry website! No wordpress plugin, it's some basic html and some php that I myself coded.

    I say suspicious - never have been into any of it.. based on the fact that I always avoided anything that may lead to a penalty.

    about my server.. what could be the problem if the other sites hosted on the same server still show up ?

    Zeus, as I said, poetry is the main theme - love poetry, friendship poetry and many other(30 categories)

    Julian, no! NO PSA ads..
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    • Liberal, or just plain wacky? Years ago, they disallowed ads on one of my sites because it had "adult content." No porn, no links to porn, not even pictures of women (or men) in swimsuits. That was my most profitable AdSense site too. Those were some high-paying clicks.

      I mean, I understand that they may not approve of certain content, but it doesn't make sense that they'll run ads for certain types of content but won't let the ads run where the content matches? It's like it's okay for them to make money on those things but not us.

      Are any love poems too "adult"?

      Sometimes you never know with Google. I have the opposite problem on one of my sites; ads show but they never count. I know the site gets traffic, but AdSense never shows any impressions. And you'd think that, in a year's time, at least one person would have clicked an ad, but clicks never show either.
  • Hopefully were not looking at a new AdSense Slap. Though, a few months ago people were talking about a YouTube Slap and it almost seemed liked it was a bunch of hype. You know what, I wonder how long this love hate relationship will continue with Google. We love em because they make us money, we hate em because they don't let us make money. Arrgggh!
  • Daniel,
    AdSense Slap? Please explain!
    and Dan Rinnert.. I'll go through the poems and see about that; but if they were.. deleting them would bring AdSense back?

    Thanks
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    • I don't know. They sent me a message with examples of the pages that they didn't like, which were the most-read articles. I didn't see the sense in deleting the most requested pages, so I just let AdSense drop that site. I went a different route and sold links instead. Ha ha! Google doesn't like that either, but they pushed me into it.
  • I see.
    However, I didn't receive any notification at all..
    should this mean it's rather an error more than a possible ban?

    thanks
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    • I would think they would (or should) notify you if they pull ads from your site, but who knows with Google sometimes.

      I would lean toward maybe an error, but you just never know.

      If you're getting "page cannot be displayed" messages, I would lean more toward error. As I recall, when they yanked AdSense from my site, all that displayed was a blank white space, no message at all anywhere.
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  • On one of my sites there were a few pages where AdSense just didn't show up. It lasted for a month and then everything went back to normal.

    I would wait for a while and then ask. If there was a problem you would be notified with something like this:
  • Dan .. but that's what it shows like..
    look, please check it out and tell me how it shows at your place:
    the site is lovethepoem.com (no link)

    the adsense code is just below the main banner

    please people tell me what you see - is it blank space or page cannot be displayed?

    thanks,
    Flavius
  • Julian.. I did the exact same thing.. created a new code and tried to display it but nothing.

    check out lovethepoem.com and tell me what you see below the main banner.
  • dburk.. thanks for the info.

    now, people.. please!

    check out lovethepoem.com and tell me what you see below the main banner instead of Adsense!!!

    a) blank space
    b) page cannot be displayed
    c) what else?
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    • Hi Flavius,

      I'm just seeing empty space.

      I do see a couple of ad stop trigger words on your page, namely funeral and death. I would suggest that to be a likely cause. They won't even serve PSA ads when those words trigger an ad delivery stoppage. I had a similar situation and after I removed the trigger words and waiting 4 or 5 days the ads reappeared.
    • flavius333, it looks like your Privacy Policy is not up to snuff for displaying Adsense ads. If you recall, Google sent out notices to all Adsense account holders requesting us to update our Privacy Policies. This update was to include an option allowing surfers to opt out of the advertising tracking. I don't see that option on your site. The Big G is yanking Adsense Ads from sites they catch they have not updated their PP.

      Below is a snippet of exactly what Google is looking for, you're welcome to use freely as it covers all of the areas they want to see in a Privacy Policy for sites with Adsense.

      Third Party Advertising Companies
      PLEASE NOTE: this website uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when visiting this site. These third parties may collect and use information (but not your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, you can visit Google's Advertising and Privacy page.

      If you wish to opt out of Advertising companies tracking and tailoring advertisements to your surfing patterns you may do so at Network Advertising Initiative.

      Google uses the Doubleclick DART cookie to serve ads across it's Adsense network and you can get further information regarding the DART cookie at Doubleclick as well as opt out options at Google's Privacy Center.
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  • What about your meta tags? I had an experience once where I was just playing around testing some designs, and I loaded up the meta tags with keywords to see if I could get the ads I wanted to show up. They showed up for a while, then disappeared - blank like you said.

    The content was fine, but I think the problem was I was too repetitive with my use of keywords in the meta tags. Could this be a factor?
  • I see blank space where the ads should be.
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    • Start testing so you can report the findings, start at the top of your page and start taking words out untill you find the problem ie. keywords, description, alt tags, then put some breaks between your img and the adsense script and so forth. I would also do some reading about keywords, infact you could take most of those out. Infact Google is probably pretty confused about what to show on your site there is alot of information not all about poems.
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  • Crew Chief,

    Terms and Conditions! Amateur free poem contest! Get your poem published!
    isn't this fair ? I have this displayed for more than a year now.. and it seems to me it's close to what you're saying.

    I guess it must be something else..
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    • I looked at your site and at the moment, this seems to be the only thing sticking out. In your current Privacy Policy, the average Joe Blow or Mary Jane, is going to read this... "You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices..."

      ...and go, "HUH?" Where do they go to opt out? Should they go to Google? Should they go directly to each individual website of the ad(s) they don't won't displayed? Google clearly spells out what they want the surfers to see on all PPs displaying Adsense Ads.

      What should I put in my privacy policy about the DoubleClick DART cookie?

      https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...=cb&lev=answer

      Hope that helps!
    • Is this just me??? :confused: Are those "Pop Up Ads" on your site? We've checked in both IE and FF and there appears to be ads popping up and hovering right over your header? Check these links

      /friendshippoems/
      /weddingpoems/
      /anniversary-poems/

      They go to this link:

      http://www.myfuncards.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Crew Chief,

    Those are not popup ads; they are layers inside my html and they've been manually added by me.

    could those be a problem?

    Thanks,
    Flavius
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    • Hi flavius333,

      Have you looked at this issue? I know that this has stopped ads on one of my sites. It frustrated me until I discovered this little known issue:

      Google AdSense Stop Words - Poison Words

      A few days after I removed the offending words from my page normal ad delivery resumed.
    • I've been on Jury Duty this past week, wheeew!!!

      Flavius333, just checked and rechecked and your site "DOES" have "POPUPS!" I don't know how they are appearing on your screen but I had it confirmed with two other third parties and you have pop ups.

      To get the Adsense ads displaying again, I would...

      (a). Remove the Pop Ups
      (b). Bring your privacy Policy in-line with Google's parameters

      And that should do it!
  • dburk,

    this guy says clearly: here are a few possible stopwords which MAY prevent normal ads from being shown and may result in PSas (Public Service Ads).

    And at my site no public service ads are shown.
    I'm being ghosted. I'm seeing blank space and on some computers page cannot be displayed.

    Thanks,
    Flavius
  • Hmm... I visited your site today I saw ads displaying properly, image ads of smileys and gift cards...

    Did you change something? looks like it's working again!
  • Crew Chief, I've tried 3-4 computers; still no popups; looked through the html code; nowhere to be found. please describe what you see and where you see it.

    p.s. fantastic note ayolov; I tried using a us proxy and I DID SEE MY ADS!
    what the hell is this? why do they display so rare? I only get around 200 impressions per day instead of tens of thousands..

    thanks
    Flavius
  • Crew Chief, I've tried 3-4 computers; still no popups; looked through the html code; nowhere to be found. please describe what you see and where you see it.

    p.s. fantastic note ayolov; I tried using a us proxy and I DID SEE MY ADS!
    what the hell is this? why do they display so rare? I only get around 200 impressions per day instead of tens of thousands..

    thanks
    Flavius
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