I have recently developed a website that generates content in pages dynamically. In other words the content text is actually sourced from a database. I have found that there is a difference in the ad relevance on exactly the same pages but generated by different servers. I have a local development server and a production server that host the site. When I display a page on my local server the ads from Adwords are relevant to the page content, however when I display the exact same page on the remote server the ads generated by Adwords are not relevant to the page. Could you please explain why this is the case.
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Adwords Good On Local Rubish On Remote
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Malo
, Jun 14 2007 11:38 PM
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Posted 15 June 2007 - 12:29 PM
Welcome to the forums Malo. 
So,to clarify, you have:
http://dev.server/pa...o/landing/page/
http://live.server/p...o/landing/page/
where /path/to/landing/page/ is the same in both cases, but is delivering different page content. Is that correct?
So,to clarify, you have:
http://dev.server/pa...o/landing/page/
http://live.server/p...o/landing/page/
where /path/to/landing/page/ is the same in both cases, but is delivering different page content. Is that correct?
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Posted 16 June 2007 - 11:26 PM
Are you implying I have virtual domains? If so this is not correct. I have a local development server and the site is hosted remotely by an ISP. In production Adwords ads are most relevant to page content, however on the remote server run by the ISP Adwords ads are irrelevant to the page content. Same page same directory name. The only difference is the domain name. On the production server domain is Localhost on the remote server the domain is www.oohfoo.com. Is this clear?
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Posted 17 June 2007 - 04:08 PM
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Same page same directory name. The only difference is the domain name. On the production server domain is Localhost on the remote server the domain is www.oohfoo.com. Is this clear?
Yep, understood. It's as I thought and described. 
There are several possibilities, but these are the most probable:
- Either the databases are different on your dev and live server, or
- The code is different on your dev and live server, or
- Both of the above
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Posted 18 June 2007 - 12:19 AM
Ok, Thanks for that. However I fail to see there is any difference between the code and databases on the servers. As I have already indicated the only difference between the sites is the domain name.
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Posted 18 June 2007 - 03:26 AM
QUOTE(Malo @ Jun 17 2007, 05:26 AM) 
On the production server domain is Localhost on the remote server the domain is www.oohfoo.com. Is this clear?
If you're using localhost as your dev server, Google isn't able to access your pages, or at least they weren't last time I checked. They may have changed their ad code since it's been a while and I've disabled AdSense on my localhost dev. I would contact Google support about this if I where you and see whether they get back to you.
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Posted 18 June 2007 - 04:12 AM
Duh, sorry, didn't notice this was the Adsense forum ... I thought we were talking Adwords!
Google cannot and will not ever be able to read the code on your localhost server. So you would expect your problem to be the other way around ... good ads on the remote server, and poor ads on localhost. The fact that the problem exists as it does suggests that either:
1) The Adsense ads being displayed on your local server are good purely by luck, or
2) You've got the right Adsense code on your dev server (passing a server that is accessible to Adsense) and not on your live server
Google cannot and will not ever be able to read the code on your localhost server. So you would expect your problem to be the other way around ... good ads on the remote server, and poor ads on localhost. The fact that the problem exists as it does suggests that either:
1) The Adsense ads being displayed on your local server are good purely by luck, or
2) You've got the right Adsense code on your dev server (passing a server that is accessible to Adsense) and not on your live server
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Posted 18 June 2007 - 11:28 PM
Oh dear, my mistake of course the ads displayed on the site are Adsense ads, I fail to see that they could be anything else, whether they are called Adsense Ads or Adwords Ads seems to be a little pedantic.
One thing for sure is that my browser will display Google ads with the Localhost domain quite happily.
Its seem though the problem has solved itself as I now see the Google ads are now relevant to the page content, the problem has fixed itself.
Though I had made some changes recently that could have made it easier for Google to decipher page content, by removing asp LinkButtons and replacing them with Hyperlinks, LinkButtons require a redirect in the code and these are not believed to be follows by crawlers. However I think I have seen evidence of these links in crawls www.oohfoo.com/(A(5ohTlTDlxwEkA...Pc1))/Articles/Health/Better-Health/%20 whatever this is. Ok Thank for your time.
One thing for sure is that my browser will display Google ads with the Localhost domain quite happily.
Its seem though the problem has solved itself as I now see the Google ads are now relevant to the page content, the problem has fixed itself.
Though I had made some changes recently that could have made it easier for Google to decipher page content, by removing asp LinkButtons and replacing them with Hyperlinks, LinkButtons require a redirect in the code and these are not believed to be follows by crawlers. However I think I have seen evidence of these links in crawls www.oohfoo.com/(A(5ohTlTDlxwEkA...Pc1))/Articles/Health/Better-Health/%20 whatever this is. Ok Thank for your time.
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Posted 19 June 2007 - 01:30 AM
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Oh dear, my mistake of course the ads displayed on the site are Adsense ads, I fail to see that they could be anything else, whether they are called Adsense Ads or Adwords Ads seems to be a little pedantic.
Nope, it was just me having a brain freeze. Glad it's all sorted for you.
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