Sidebar content only shows on certain pages

  • Resolved mrnick1

    (@mrnick1)


    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hello!

    I’m having some problems with a Google AdSense ad in a sidebar on my page. Before you redirect me to Google’s support, please read my post first. I honestly believe this is a WordPress problem.

    My problem is that I have an advertisement in the sidebar of my webpage, and this ad doesn’t show up on most pages.

    Steps to reproduce:
    – go to the homepage. The advertisement is visible in the sidebar, below the heading “Advertisements”
    – go to a different page, like this. Scroll down to the ad – it doesn’t show up. There is nothing under the “ad” heading.
    – the ad works on some pages, like this one or this one. It appears to me that it works on the shorter pages but doesn’t work on the longer pages.
    – if you go to a page where the ad doesn’t work, like here, scroll to the bottom of the page and then refresh the page, the box where the ad should be in shows up but not the ad itself.

    Tested on Chrome, Edgium and Firefox. WordPress is fully updated. The theme I’m using (TwentyFifteen) isn’t fully updated; I’m at version 1.9. I won’t update because I’ve modified it directly (dirty, I know). Looking at the changelog for the newer versions of the theme I can’t see any bugfixes related to this anyway.

    The ad is implemented as a sidebar “Custom HTML” widget with the text “Advertisements” as a the title of the widget and the HTML provided by Google AdSense as the content of the widget.

    I’m grateful for any replies.

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  • I see it on every page. I check the links you added it appears at the bottom of the sidebar on each of them.

    Thread Starter mrnick1

    (@mrnick1)

    It’s kind of random which pages work and not, appearently. I just tried it on a Macbook with both Safari and Chrome and in both cases the links I added works, yes, but other pages don’t. Could you try other pages too, like this, this, this or this?

    It’s kind of random which pages work and not, appearently.

    That’s exactly the nature of AdSense, and not a problem per se.

    If you want to prove it, just put your own image banner there in the sidebar… and you’ll realize it will ALWAYS display.

    Google decides when, where and if they should display ads on a page… depending on many factors including page content, visitor location, available ad inventory, advertiser targeting, etc. AdSense publishers have ZERO control over this.

    If you don’t see AdSense ads, just view the source of the page. As long as you see the AdSense code in the page, your website has done its job… and it’s up to Google to decide if an ad will appear on your site or not.

    Thread Starter mrnick1

    (@mrnick1)

    Can confirm, checked the source of a page where the ad works and compared it to the source of a page where it doesn’t. In both pages the same ad-related code appears as far as I can see. Also, putting my own image, text, HTML or javascript in the sidebar below the ad works even on pages where the ads don’t.

    It appears Google was behind this behaviour after all. I still find the behaviour curious as ads appear to only show on shorter pages and not on longer ones, and it looks like ads appear just as likely on pages with little or no text as on pages with a lot of text. MAybe Google doesn’t find it worth it to put ads so far down on a webpage.

    Thank you all for your help!

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