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Just leaving this here for those, who, like me, are seriously NOT geek-minded and completely bewildered by messages on your AdSense account status saying things like this:
"Our crawler was unable to access the pages listed in the ’Blocked URLs’ column to determine the content and display ads. Click the ’plus’ icon beside each domain to see an expanded list of affected URLs. When our crawler can’t access your content we won’t show ads, resulting in lower revenue and coverage. Follow the link in the ’Error’ column to learn how to correct these errors."
The "Error column" was very helpful, all it had to say was "No Data"
Google "Help" didn't help much either, telling me to: Give access to our crawler in your robots.txt file
I didn't remove their access. I don't even know WHERE to commit this mistake.
About 30 minutes of frantic searches, reading, cussing, back and forth between 4 tabs, Google searches, troubleshooting and reading even more bewildering "Help" pages I thought of something….
WordPress sites have an annoying habit of "losing" ad codes…
O.K. check site theme… No ad code!
That might explain everything?!?
Solution:
1. Find the ad code. 2. Go into your site's themes. 3. Paste the code just below the first <head> and… Success! The ads are showing up again. Google is "crawling" my site again and me?
So, if you have a WordPress site and see no ads showing where you previously had ads and Google gives you the above verdict. Don't panic, before you go searching high and low for errors and blocked URL's and txt files and did I mention panic? Check if your ad codes are where you last left them!
I really hope this helps someone. I did not find this solution in the troubleshooting guides and pages I did look at, so I thought I'd leave it here for anyone that needs it
"Our crawler was unable to access the pages listed in the ’Blocked URLs’ column to determine the content and display ads. Click the ’plus’ icon beside each domain to see an expanded list of affected URLs. When our crawler can’t access your content we won’t show ads, resulting in lower revenue and coverage. Follow the link in the ’Error’ column to learn how to correct these errors."
The "Error column" was very helpful, all it had to say was "No Data"
Google "Help" didn't help much either, telling me to: Give access to our crawler in your robots.txt file
I didn't remove their access. I don't even know WHERE to commit this mistake.
About 30 minutes of frantic searches, reading, cussing, back and forth between 4 tabs, Google searches, troubleshooting and reading even more bewildering "Help" pages I thought of something….
WordPress sites have an annoying habit of "losing" ad codes…
O.K. check site theme… No ad code!
That might explain everything?!?Solution:
1. Find the ad code. 2. Go into your site's themes. 3. Paste the code just below the first <head> and… Success! The ads are showing up again. Google is "crawling" my site again and me?
So, if you have a WordPress site and see no ads showing where you previously had ads and Google gives you the above verdict. Don't panic, before you go searching high and low for errors and blocked URL's and txt files and did I mention panic? Check if your ad codes are where you last left them!
I really hope this helps someone. I did not find this solution in the troubleshooting guides and pages I did look at, so I thought I'd leave it here for anyone that needs it
Seriously though, when I did a Google troubleshoot a few weeks ago when my ads went AWOL, one of the items on the check list was "Is it a WordPress site?" or similar, so they are known to do that apparently. Now that I think about it though… WP now and then sends me an email telling me THEY updated something-or-another on there, so I'll make a note to ad check every time they do that and see if they caused the ad code to disappear.
And slightly frustratingly, there are no bells and whistles on your AdSense account page when you check in saying "Hey, thanks for leaving?!?"
