Be interested to hear what ads people see in the sidebar adsense box. Since installing it I’ve only ever seen BT infinity except once this morning on my mobile where I say some “ever taken out a bank loan” ad – I assume it was PPI related.
Normally I associate google ads with things I’ve been searching for myself but in this case I’m wondering whether the ads are based on the content of the site. There is a lot of broadband content and quite a number of posts where I slag off PPI phone calls.
What do you guys see?
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I get a PPI one (possibly the same as you’ve seen), BT Infinity, Cloud Computing. I use Chrome with Do Not Track enabled, but it’s possible that the Infinity and Cloud adverts are based on cookies since they are things I have searched for and looked at. PPI refunds is something I have never looked for.
It’s showing me an ad for Adwords 🙂
Well I could tell you but I might be giving something away…
http://labourlist.org/2013/03/tory-mps-date-arab-girls-jibe-backfires/
Aled
I’ve never seen anything but Timico Ad’s. However, I must admit I’ve never searched for Timico, I used to resell them at a previous job , but that’s it, I just assumed it was Tref’s association that was the reason for why they were there.
the timico ad is not done via adsense. the adsense ad should appear in a box above the timico ad fwiw
That would explain why!
I’m not seeing the Adsense, I’m using chrome on iPad, we block ads at the office but I don’t see them at home either.
The ads will reflect the page content and will change over time as your site is crawled – look out for the “Mediapartners-Google” User Agent in your logs!
Ads will also use visitors’ cookies – you’ll remember I’ve previously told you how you can ‘opt out’ or modify your settings? 🙂
http://www.trefor.net/2012/05/08/the-online-garden-shed-the-answer-to-internet-privacy-issues/
So visitors will see different ads depending on their browsing history, Google’s Adsense BOT, Google settings and cookie management.