Adsense in German... Why?

kaeldaven · Share | #1 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009, 06:42 PM

For some reason my site (averagejoeknows.com), Adsense is appearing in German. (The first page only shows one Adsense so you may need to Navigate) but my question is WHY???

The website is hosted state side in Texas... I've Geo'd Adsense for the United States and Canada and none of the content is in ANY language other than English. There has to be a reason for this. All h1 tags are English etc.

I've also noticed that only some of the ads appear in German while the others are showing in plain English. Has anyone experienced this?

I'm using Joomla! 1.5.12 and my lang=en. Looking forward to any help. Thanks in advance.

miccharlys · #2 (**permalink**) 09-12-2009, 05:47 PM

There is no german ad on your index page...can you please share the exact link where the german ad is appearing on your website

kaeldaven · #3 (**permalink**) 09-12-2009, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by miccharlys

There is no german ad on your index page...can you please share the exact link where the german ad is appearing on your website

If you go to any of the sub-pages (Not wanting to spam links on here) such as the automotive page it should show some German links, it's still doing it to me right now... Is it possible that it's doing it just for me ?

**HTMLBasicTutor** · #4 (**permalink**) 09-13-2009, 12:53 AM

All English for the pages I checked (in Canada).

What country are you checking your pages from?

kaeldaven · #5 (**permalink**) 09-13-2009, 08:50 AM

The United States, more specifically, the ip 70.** (Bellsouth.net)... Alright, so let me tell you this I just discovered that I find extremely odd. I grabbed another Laptop here at the house, it runs Windows XP, Google ads showed fine, no problems at all. The computer I was checking before has Vista on it... I checked the desktop that has windows 7 and i works fine as well. Somehow this is something to do with the operating system?

angilina · #6 (**permalink**) 09-13-2009, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by kaeldaven

The United States, more specifically, the ip 70.** (Bellsouth.net)... Alright, so let me tell you this I just discovered that I find extremely odd. I grabbed another Laptop here at the house, it runs Windows XP, Google ads showed fine, no problems at all. The computer I was checking before has Vista on it... I checked the desktop that has windows 7 and i works fine as well. Somehow this is something to do with the operating system?

Is "Interest-based Ads" option enabled in your account?

If yes, then may be that is causing this issue. The PC with vista, may be it has something to do with the ads appearing in the other language which is possible because of Interest-based Ads: Not sure though

kaeldaven · #7 (**permalink**) 09-13-2009, 11:45 AM

It's worth a try... I'll give it a shot and let you know what I find out...