If you are using Blogger and run Adsense then you may have awoken this morning to find all your Ads are showing Public Service Ads (PSA's).
First off don't panic!
Second stop sending me emails! Lol.
There is an easy fix.
Why this happened is unclear but appears to be connected to several recent and ongoing changes within Adsense and Blogger.
If you are showing PSA ads then you are using the Channels feature available when setting up your ads in Google Adsense. This method requires you to set up your ads in Adsense and then transfer the code supplied over to a html/javascript Gadget in Blogger.
Simply remove all those html/javascript Gadgets (just the ones using your Adsense code) and replace them with the "Adsense" Gadgets provided in Blogger. This means opening an "Adsense" Gadget, selecting the ad format you want and then place it in the appropriate location. These ads don't require you to use Adsense setup.
The PSA ads will be gone but you will not be able to track your ad blocks as you did using the code supplied by Adsense setup.
Cheers,
Griz
Friday, January 23, 2009
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15 comments:
Griz,
Seems mine corrected themselves without me doing anything at all. I always put the adsense code in the HTML script thingy on Blogger and not the Adsense thingy. Now mine all seem to be working properly again (at least the ones I checked).
Anon,
Good to hear - I figured G would be trying to fix this fast as they surely lost some serious revenue this morning. I'll try putting the Channel code back up and see - thanks for the heads up.
Good catch Griz. But, you'd better edit this post and get some keywords in it. I've got a feeling that as soon as it gets crawled (which may have happened already) that it will be at the top of the SERPs when folks are looking for a solution. Might as well capitalize on the traffic.
all good here, Griz, didn't need to add the adsense gadget. Probably just a temporary glitch
Google is crazy sometimes isn't it! I saw this happening last night at o:dark'30 and this morning I had like 1 click. It has fixed itself now and I am back to being happy. Maybe too many people were beating down Google's door or maybe someone was sitting on the "easy button" (see Staples ad for explanation).
Wendy (The Computer Lady)
Yes, something strange happend to my adsense account too: the reports of advies/clicks went as high as 92%! I just can't understand why.
"a goldfish a day will keep the doctor away"
Eh. I'm just bored. Ignore me. lol
I just checked my Adsense Ads and they seem to be fine.
Guess it was all corrected by the time I got home from work.
Thanks for the heads-up!
Thanks for the heads up Griz. You are a real help to the blogging community.
*Can't keep up with the sudden flood of posts*
Too much coffee Grizz? ;)
"Second stop sending me emails! Lol."
Lmao.
Everything seems fine with mine.
It happened only to my most profitable blog yesterday too. My other blog was fine, but when I tried to installed a new ad onto the latter, it turned out blank, except "view ads about". So far I haven't getting any click from my profitable blog as yet.
Hi Grizz,
My ads seem to be ok, but, I want to thank you for all the help (in the name of all of your readers). All bloggers should be like you ... the world will be better if there was more Grizz out there ..
Cumps bro,
Artur
Hey griz, all your asian traffic gives you $0.05ish?
Mine does :/
Maybe I should block asian traffic.
Geez, I head up north to go ice fishing for a few days and all hell breaks loose! Just saw this post and checked a few of my blogs and don't see any PSA's, so I guess they were fixed automatically as well. Thanks for the heads up anyway.
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