| Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | otravers | 3/28/12 2:33 PM | Please select your platform version: DFP-Small Business Question or Issue: Since the async GPT tags were introduced about 5 months ago I thought I'd check with the community how things have been working out for early adopters. I haven't dared make |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | otravers | 3/28/12 4:19 PM | I see that for one, email click tracking is still somewhat buggy: http://support.google.com/dfp_sb/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=known_issues.cs |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | oncalladops | 3/28/12 4:27 PM | Personally...I don't use the async tags. They do NOT play nicely with 3rd party tags...the expandable ads are not at all friendly in them...and I've even seen bad interaction with site code. To me...a bunch of issues that we can't really tolerate an |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | otravers | 3/29/12 8:40 AM | Thanks for your input. Somehow I had missed that the GPT tags also come in a synchronous versions, but still offer other benefits vs. the GAM tags: - http://support.google.com/dfp_sb/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1649768 - http://support.google.com/dfp_ |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | oncalladops | 3/29/12 9:29 AM | Yup...not a lot of focus on the sync tags, but in my book, they are more stable and far more usable! :-) |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | Bigwebmaster | 3/30/12 11:33 AM | We used the new Async GPT Tags starting in November, 2011 and we loved how it increased the performance of our website. Load time was much better. HOWEVER. Earnings drop significantly (about 30%). In the past two weeks we put back our old Google Ad |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | oncalladops | 3/30/12 11:40 AM | whoa! I hadn't heard anything on that issue. Have you filed a bug about this? Google has no way of knowing if you don't tell them (since they don't have that smaller site running DFP SB!!)...let them know...anything affecting revenue is an EXTREME |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | Bigwebmaster | 3/30/12 11:52 AM | I have not file a bug on this, if you search on Google you can find a few others with the same problems that was found. This one for example is how I confirmed I was not the only one: http://www.monetizemore.com/are-the-new-dfp-ad-tags-gpts-decreasi |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | Bigwebmaster | 3/30/12 12:11 PM | Where would I file a bug? On this page: http://support.google.com/dfp_sb/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=known_issues.cs It just says to post in here, should I just start a new topic about it? Or do they have some sort of bug reporting system that I am no |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | oncalladops | 3/30/12 1:00 PM | on your DFP network...top right corner...there's a link for "file a bug." Try that first, otherwise you could send in through the contact form too (well hidden of course!)... http://support.google.com/dfp_sb/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=cuf&rd= |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | Social Knowledge | 3/31/12 1:31 PM | One thing to check is to see if you have the "enable single request" architecture enabled. If so, this will call every ad slot defined in the header regardless if it is rendered on the page or not. If it's called and not rendered on the page people |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | travelsignposts | 4/1/12 12:00 AM | This is very interesting. I have a leaderboard and 300x250 hot box on my site which collapse if they are not booked. This is because I usually have three other ads with adsense remnant on each page (in-text, wide skyscraper and after post)and don't w |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | Social Knowledge | 4/1/12 7:56 AM | @travelsignposts - you are correct. The fact you are calling but not showing all the ads AND using SRA will throw off your stats (lower CTR which leads to lower RPM). Just remove the enable single request line from the header and see how things go. |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | oncalladops | 4/1/12 10:56 AM | Interesting...the only bug I've discovered with SRA is that if you are running Custom Criteria (page-wide, not at the slot level)...and have SRA enabled...the SRA breaks the criteria. Of course, the Google documentation STILL doesn't tell us HOW to |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | Bigwebmaster | 4/3/12 10:57 AM | Thanks! Didn't even see that there! |
| Re: Maturity of the asynchronous Google Publisher Tag (GPT)? | Bigwebmaster | 4/3/12 10:59 AM | We did have SRA mode enabled, but if we list the codes in the header, we call them on the page as well. We don't call anything in the headers if we aren't going to display the ads for that slot. |