On 2006-01-05 11:59:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Ginger:
Why do the ads for troubled teens, teen boot camps, and Spring Creek keep disappearing and then coming back again?
For technical dummies, please. "
I'm not sure what you mean. You mean the entire ad bar is going away? Or do you mean you're seeing different ads each time?
If it's going away, it's probably just a minor malfunction somewhere between the server and your browser. Nothing's perfect, but it works often enough.
If it's just different ads, well the rotation is more or less a random sampling of whatever ads Google matches up by keyword w/ the page in question.
Now, that said, we'll always get ad links in some of these forums keyed on terms related to the troubled parent industry. But the smart ones and the ones w/ the extra staffing to attend to such details will block their ads from coming up in this context. I can block up to 200 of them, that's it.
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