Google adsense problems

Haven't used adsense but regarding the page download problems you could splitting your page into separate table structures or even using divs where possible.

Doesn't help the root of the problem but it can be an effective remedy.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion but I've already tried that; seems that in IE6, any table that fails to render stops tables below that one (not nested, just below on the page) from rendering. Desperately annoying because my revenue on adSense has been quite pleasing.

Green2K.

Hi,

Are you sure there isn't a master table controlling the main page layout?

Provided they are completely separate top level tables you shouldn't have a problem.

Failing that though, give div's a go - once you get the hang of them they can also be really good from an SEO point of view due to reduced code needed.

Cheers

The only other thing I can thing of is that is it possible these are new pages? If so, google's media bot needs to crawl the page before ads are served.

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Google still shows ads if the page hasn't been crawled, it shows free "public service" ads rather than targeted ads.

Not in my experience, JF. I understand that's what it says on the site, but new pages I've created don't display adsense ads until the mediabot has visited (usually only a minute or two).

I've always had the free ads appear on new pages. They always seem to be American ads too, which must confuse my visitors!

I've always had instant 'free ads'. I have pages using the banners that google cannot crawl too, and these are showing constant 'free ads' - and consistantly, no blanks.

On the question of rendering the pages, I had similar problems in the past with a variety of ad networks (TD springs to mind) and found that the most effective solution is to use divs for the ads. This seems to work for me, even in nested tables.

Is there a simple way of implementing divs to do this?

Please can someone post an example???

Adsense is still performing very well for us - easily our best performing programme at the moment....

Depending on how complex your page layout is the divs can get quite involved - same as everything I guess though.

I would say the two main areas to start looking into are absolute positioning using css2. You might also want to do some google searches for "liquid layout" using css - basically this is the geek term for being able to lay you page out with left nav bar main content area and right side bar (in other words the standard 3 column table approach of most websites.

Cheers

look at some good css sites and you'll see immediately how effective this type of layout can be, both in solving problems like the one you're currently experiencing, and in reducing fat code.

I'm not going to post any sample sites as I'm only a newbie on this forum and want to keep a clean sheet until people get to know that I'm an honest injun :eek:

I would have posted some examples but it's doesn't really work like that.

Hey... Is anyone else having problems with Google adsense? A fair %age of the time, Google doesn't serve the .js (or it takes flippin' ages); in IE this leaves the table it's in stuck and any other tables unable to render. I've seen this from two PCs (different net connections) and on multiple websites running adwords (not all mine).

Anyone else noticed this? I've had to pull the ads for now, the pages were just unusable.



Thanks... Green2K.