SEO Revolution Blog » public service ads http://blog.seorevolution.com Jerry West: Tested & Proven SEO Marketing Advice Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:15:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Getting Rid of PSAs in AdSense http://blog.seorevolution.com/2008/04/07/getting-rid-of-psas-in-adsense/ http://blog.seorevolution.com/2008/04/07/getting-rid-of-psas-in-adsense/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:03:50 +0000 Jerry West http://blog.seorevolution.com/2008/04/07/getting-rid-of-psas-in-adsense/ If you are running AdSense as a way to monetize your website, then you know how much you hate getting PSAs (Public Service Ads) showing on your pages … as they are non-ad generating.

Google AdSense Public Service Ad

What causes them? Usually the content of the page can’t be matched properly with an advertiser, therefore, a PSA is displayed. I’ve found this to occur even on pages with relevant content.

What can you do?

I’ve found a simple entry in the robots.txt file fixes the majority of the PSAs displaying on my AdSense pages.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

This code tell the Mediaparters bot from Google (the AdSense bot) they it has full access to your site (as noted by the Disallow nothing line).

I wrote an article on the basic of the robots.txt file and you can also look at my file over at Web Marketing Now.

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