Hi luovalabs,
thanks for reaching out.
I checked your site and can confirm that Advanced Ads works fine, meaning that I can find the codes there.
The problem is that Google Ad Manager ad units can only be placed once per page, not multiple times. Hence, it is only filled once. You can either use AdSense directly for this placement or use a different ad unit code per position on archive pages.
Btw., you can use the GAM debug console to find any issues the Ad Manager might have by just attaching ?googfc to your URL.
Please let me know if you need anything else.
Best regards,
Thomas
Ok thanks for that insight, since one ad can’t be used multiple times, I created multiple ad units each using different ad codes. I’m still getting the same result.
I have many ads, each ad has its own group and specific category it should show up under. I then created different placements that are associated with the group.
Hi luovalabs,
do you have another question regarding Advanced Ads here or is it now just a setup issue with the Ad Manager code?
Best regards,
Thomas
Hey Thomas,
Just an issue, I know you said Google Ad Manager ad units can only be placed once per page, so I created multiple ads and added them to various groups. Then I created placements on the website which are associate with the groups. I am getting a similar issue – where I have different placements, with different groups which contain unique ads and still only the first placement with ads is showing. I can see the Google Code when I inspect the page but no ad shows. Also, when I enable debug manually, it tells me that the ad is showing.
Kind regards,
Romario
Hi Romario,
I checked your site again. Did you set up over 200 GAM ad units in the head of your site on purpose? It makes it hard to debug.
You can use the ?googfc parameter to open the GAM debug box. Like http://dev.barbadostoday.bb/sports/?googfc. That lists all ad units in the header.
I used that to see why the 167th ad which is in the archive is not showing anything. From what I am seeing, it is implemented correctly. Maybe it just misses a line item in the Google Ad Manager account.
Thomas
Yes, we have over 200 because but each of the ads are for different categories and different parts of the page along with desktop and mobile versions. It is like that for now but I’ll have different headers created for different categories so the main header is not as heavy.
A lot of the ads don’t have line items because everything is still in testing mode. However, we have Adsense enabled so that regardless of a line item, an ad will still show up.
Thanks. I don’t see an issue with that particular ad unit code.
I see that you enabled the debug mode for this particular ad and it says that there is a condition that doesn’t match the page. I think you probably saw it already, right?
What I can say is that with using the ?googfc parameter without any issues related to an ad not appearing then the code is implemented fine and it is more a problem with GAM. Maybe there are too many ad units. You could test just one header and body code on a single page until that works and move to a more complex setup from there.
Best regards,
Thomas
