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Ads by google

not goooooogle and better targeting

         

Genuine1

7:24 pm on Oct 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I noticed something this month thats strange.

My traffic stayed the same on all sites.
My clickthrough increased from 6.something to 7.9x
My income increased by around 15 percent from roughly 95 a day (last few months) to 110+ daily.
My ads seem better targeted than usual, and less mfa stuff.
The strange thing is that when this happened the ads by goooooogle vanished and was replaced by the olde originale ads by google for around 90 percent of the time.

Its as if they put ads by goooooogle on the less targeted or mfa / low value ads or something. As if trying to protect their google name.

Or it could just be a coincidence...

Anyone else see an increase this month and the same ads by google?

hunderdown

7:35 pm on Oct 23, 2006 (gmt 0)



I see a lot of ads by goooooogle and I have no reason to believe my site would be considered low-quality or MFA.

Over the years I've seen targeting tighten and get fuzzier and CTR wax and wane, so that's certainly what could have happened, but the link you are suggesting seems tenuous--you may not like gooooogle but Google does. They put it at the bottom of all of their search results pages, after all.

icedowl

8:13 pm on Oct 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I see it switch back & forth from google to goooooogle constantly going from one page to the next and back again. I think they're just trying to break up the monotony.

Pengi

8:36 pm on Oct 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I don't often check my own pages - but I've not seen an "Ads By Google" on them yet.

Did find a couple of PSA's when I looked - a quick refresh sorted them. Why does it do this?

Genuine1

3:16 pm on Oct 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Dunno but I get that as well.

Trouble is that means that your visitors are seeing them as well.
Maybe the bot has a short memory and needs to revisit after a page has had no visitor for x period?

hunderdown

3:51 pm on Oct 24, 2006 (gmt 0)



My theory about the PSAs that disappear on refresh is that they are defaults that get served if the ad system is overloaded and can't get out the correct ad quickly enough...