Is your Google ads slowing down your website? Are your pages with ads freezing up? The big one, Google, successfully commands such a huge amount of internet activity, could this be effecting a large part of the functionality of the web?
We are domain investors, bloggers, copywriters for quality content, and use AdSense a lot. It helps support our activities, and Google AdSense has even become a valuable and respectable income stream. So as an affiliate of Google of sorts, and with all due respect…
Google must have to serve a wide bandwidth, with the amount of data that they serve. Many of our websites have Google ads from AdSense and indeed are important to us, but at the same time, we have been seeing our sites literally freeze up when specific website pages have incorporated AdSense ads.
We have done several tests, to see this is true:
Our pages can be cleaned up to XHTML 1.0 transitional perfect and validated by w3.org. No big pictures, first pages load lightning fast with zero errors. Our server has been upgraded to a duo core processer this year, and are extremely pleased with the server. It is apache, and handles our dedicated needs very well. It is not a shared server.
We hear of penalties for slow loading web sites through these last years of blogs, to see that slow loading pages might be a possibility. Ours are clean, XHTML 1.0 transitional validated, our server is quick, and very fast.
This is the true test. We can take a page that is freezing up with Google AdSense, and remove the ads, and see it “loads rocket fine”. When we put Adsense back in, the page freezes up.
I have also bookmarked different pages that we have predetermined that employ Adsense. These sites have no specific server or location, and they too do not load. It seems this is web wide, and not specifically our pages, server, or sites.
Don’t get us wrong, we love AdSense! In our opinion, there is nothing better out there right now for web publishers that want to generate real dollars in income, and we have played with affiliates to only get spammed to death, and with all the views, no sales, no dollars. Affiliates do us no good, so would love to hear which ones work.
Here is a thought. If many pages use adwords such as ours, and if Yahoo now resells adwords as I heard with a recent agreement, then can Google serve up all this digital activity? Is it possible that Google Adwords is freezing up half the internet, and have a possibility of crashing half the web? If this is true, is it possible that Google can find the problem and comes up with that fast speed to handle all their activity! If half the internet uses Adwords, then Google servers must be cranking! Are their servers fast enough, or can they tie enough servers together to handle all that bandwidth that half of the web would command?
Us for one, would like to see all this handled. Google does spread a lot of glee in the form of advertising dollars to site developers that use their advertising system, AdSense for the publisher sites, and obviously work for AdWords buyers that spend the bucks because it keeps coming in.
One last thought, I go nuts when my server threatens to be down, or my sites are down. I have seen several sites of ours down in these last days of September, 09 for as much as “hours!”. The other pages we are checking are seeing the same things. If this is true, Google has to know it, and is probably working on it.
We have been around the block for years. When things don’t work, and it is out of your control, then I walk away knowing I am locked up until the web fixes itself. When you change a dns and load a new site, sometimes it takes a few hours for your area to “know about” the DNS Change. Some systems see it right away, and some geographic area systems seem to take hours to know about it.
When Google gets slow as in these recent cases, I have to just walk away. The bad thing, we are dead and make no ad dollars when it is down. It frustrates our web visitors. It must frustrate Google, as it is not making money when I am not making money. We are in hopes this does not turn around and effect our web position from the different web Search Engines such as Yahoo and MSN/Bing, and including Google.
We think the slow loading Google AdSense ads are widespread enough, that when many surfers that hit them a lot, just think their service is slow. One minute AdSense ads are fast and works, the next minute it works like lightning. It is almost like they rebooted and it all of a sudden works fine.
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We can say one thing. There is no other better advertiser on the web than Google AdSense. We love the system from the buying of AdWords, to the payout of AdSense. Affiliates have not been successful for us, and want to hear what works, because we are open to any great suggestions, and please, no sales pitches. We are looking for real dollar successes with web developers and a decent income experience with Affiliates.
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You actually only have probably two errors. The last multiples of errors have to do with a page address you are using. I am afraid you did not use conical page names. I used them, so they get rid of the garbage in the address string of your dynamically generated blog. Notice my page name, as I have my WordPress set to Date and name of blog, and is installed in page name.
http://www.seodomainnames.com/seoblog/2009/10/is-your-google-adsense-slowing-down-your-websites-and-loading-time/
The bad news, you must do that in the beginning. You can not change that setting after you have started blogging, in the “permalinks” section of the control panel of wordpress. I would have to play with it, but think you are pretty good where you are at with errors. That address is throwing out your good code though. I am afraid you would have to do it all over again to set up your page names correctly.
Thanks for sure, and good luck to ya!
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You have one other major problem, you are using gif pictures, and they are huge and very slow to load. I have waited a very long time to get your main page to come up. Your web page is extremely slow! Part of it could be server speed, whomever hosts your page. Mainly it is too many gif images on your home page.
First, I would not use gif. I would convert all pictures to jpg, and make sure they stay under 100k, more like 50 for what you are doing with them.
Secondly, try this. add this to your code, to put in a page break. < ! --more-- > (no spaces). Put the picture below the paragraph, and add the page break to get all of this off your front page. You must do this in HTML view only!
This should speed up your front page tremendously, and keep the gifs on back pages, as well as have them only load one per page.
Good luck to ya! Lots done, a bit to fix for sure! Use jpg, use the MORE command and move pics to the back pages, as well as next time or when you think you can, start the new blog with permalinks.
These three things will help you a bunch! Customers waiting for pages will result in BACK<
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