Is there a way to trigger a new page-content analysis?

[jmaloney]

Several times I have fought the problem of ads that are irrelevant to my page's content. I've discovered that rewriting a page to repeat appropriate keywords does not trigger a new content analysis, at least not anytime soon. I think I've waited as long as three or four days with no new content analysis. The only way I've found to solve the problem is to delete that page, replace it with a different-named page, and fix my links to use the new page's name. Then the content analyzer usually analyzes the new page within a few hours.

The downside of this approach (besides the hassle), is that if any search engines have crawled the original page before I replaced it, then the search indexes will have broken links and I'll lose potential visitors.

Does anyone know a way to trigger a new content analysis for a page?

[jmaloney]

I think I've waited as long as three or four days with no new content analysis.

Google's new AdSense support page about section targeting (http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=23168&ctx=en:search&query=section+targeting&topic=0&type=f)
says it may take their crawlers up to two weeks to analyze the changes on a site.

So I guess the answer to my question about triggering a new text analysis is:
Rewrite the text on your page and wait two weeks.

[marchowlett]

Not sure if this will work or not but you can download a tool directly from google called google adsense preview tool.

It works in IE and what you do is right click on a web page and a pop up appears with a preview of the adwords that will appear on that page.

I have used it when I have been buidling pages to check and see if the ads will match the content.

It somethimes works on Frontpage when you are in preview mode , i think it calls the adsense spiders to check the page, so I guess you could install this and then go to your updated page and use the adsense preview tool, this should call the spiders and update your content targetting.

I have not tested this myself but it could be worth a try.

all the best

[jmaloney]

I have not tested this myself but it could be worth a try.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but got no ads. The popup gave three possible reasons: no ads available for geographic area, page hasn't been crawled yet, or sensitive content. There are ads for the content, no geographic region was specified, and there's no sensitive content... so by deduction the lack of ads was because the page hadn't been crawled.

Full circle. <g>

Jon Maloney

[flyer]

Google is really getting slow, then. I've changed the text on my site & gotten the ads to change within minutes. Not every time, but most of the time. It's been a while since I've tried this.

[marchowlett]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but got no ads. The popup gave three possible reasons: no ads available for geographic area, page hasn't been crawled yet, or sensitive content. There are ads for the content, no geographic region was specified, and there's no sensitive content... so by deduction the lack of ads was because the page hadn't been crawled.

Full circle. <g>

Jon Maloney

Hi,

this happened to me the first few times but I kept trying and ads did show up, I think by opening the pop up you do call the spiders to your page so if you go back and try again later the ads do usually show up.


all the best
Marc

[flyer]

BTW, I believe your page needs to be on the web for you to get relevant ads, or to get it respidered if you changed the content.

If you are just looking at the pages as you're creating them on your hard drive, you'll probably get PSAs irrelevant ads.

I've noticed that Adsense "remembers" what your site as a whole is about & sometimes uses that to serve the ads, rather than the content of the specific page. Example: say you had a site about dogs that had been up for a while with Adsense, then added a page about horses to it. You'll probably see dog ads at first until Adsense figures out that page is about horses. I've even seen site-relevant ads on almost blank pages (like when I had deleted most of the text but forgot to remove the ad code).