Forums and Adsense

[subnet_rx]

I have a small community forum in my town and I just decided to add adsense to it. So far, all of the reasons I didn't want to install adsense for are coming true. The ads don't stay on topic with the page and some pages just get random ads that in most cases have to do with web site design (which I do in my local town). I know that I can filter these sites, but there are so many, that google will just choose another. I would like to serve up relevant ads, meaning anyone who has paid for a keyword with my city in it. I'd also like to get the ads more relevant to the page.

I've found a few tips on here like how to add the code telling google when to start the adsense content and when to stop. Right now, I have this on the vBulletin keywords at the top (which puts the forum topic first automatically, then keywords I select), but this isn't working. I still get ads that have nothing to do with the page. For instance, I get industrial parts ads on my Off-Topic forum home page. Can anyone help with links to articles or advice on how to make my ads more relevant?

[jackburton2006]

How long has it been since you added Adsense? It takes a while for Google to FULLY index a forum (forums are HUGE), so in the meantime you'll get generic ads like vb, forum, etc. But once Google has indexed every forum, or is visiting you regularly, you SHOULD get ads relevant to specific threads, pages, etc.

[subnet_rx]

I've only had adsense up for a week or so. The forums have been up and spidered by google for over a year and a half.

[BIGC]

Try to go for yahoo publisher network

[jazzylee77]

I've only had adsense up for a week or so. The forums have been up and spidered by google for over a year and a half.

I believe there is a separate adsense spider. I see adsense spider as a guest in my vBulletin forum often. I don't know for a fact that does it's own separate datamining, but that has been my assumption.

Have you set an alternate url (http://www.knewbees.com/showthread.php?t=47) in the meantime?

[kniveswood]

Try to leave the ads on for a while longer. It's very common for my blogs to show blog ads for a few weeks before finally getting targeted ads.

[jackburton2006]

One week isn't nearly enough to give up on something as potentially fantastic as Adense.

[Integrov]

tageted ads take some time to appear, i dpends on how frequent you are being indexed by google i think.

give it a couple of days,
in the mean time, add to the file name the keywords you want to display.

[marketing]

patients my friend, the correct ads normally take a bit to start showing up. I know, I know...you have seen one to many red cross hurricane relief ads and are looking for some new fresh content! LOL

It will come soon...good ideas on the keyword use with VB though.

[Seiya]

One week isn't nearly enough to give up on something as potentially fantastic as Adense.

Most of the time it takes less than a few hours... a week is too much....
Maybe your forum has SIDs

[kniveswood]

Most of the time it takes less than a few hours... a week is too much....
Maybe your forum has SIDs
Really, one week isn't too much. It really depends on the site in question. As I said, I've experienced this before. All I get was blog ads, but after a while they just magically got targetted.

[subnet_rx]

Yeah, I'm going to give it more time for sure. Is it legal to rotate Yahoo ads with Adsense?

[yupsolo]

Good one here, I was asking myself the same question!

[Crusader]

Yeah, I'm going to give it more time for sure. Is it legal to rotate Yahoo ads with Adsense?

I doubt that there will be any problem with that. You should just make sure that they are never displayed together on the same page. If you can do that, then there shouldn't be a ToS violation (from Google's viewpoint... I haven't worked with YPN)

[FlashVictim]

You may want to check your html code and keywords, maybe you have a word in there that triggers web design ads. When a forum wasn't fully spidered I had lots of Christian Community ads popping up because I used the word community... One week is a long time... it probably is something in your texts/site credit... Also check the title tags and such

[BuildHome]

Most of the time it takes less than a few hours... a week is too much....
Maybe your forum has SIDs
Same here, only a few hours or less.

[Jude Vihervaara]

Most of the time it takes less than a few hours... a week is too much....

It takes more than few hours and it can take up to few weeks to index it really well for well targetted ads. It might take just hours with sites that uses english as major language. For example in finnish sites it really takes some time.

[PoisonedX]

When you ad Adsense to an existing forum with huge number of threads and posts, it takes lot of time to have the right ads!

[SportsOutlaw]

As mentioned, make sure you have your descriptions in via the ACP properly.

Other things you can do is remove vbulletin from all the titles within the templates.

I have a program installed that ads that adsense code to keep it more relevant as well as provides relevant keywords and descriptions for each thread.

Adding some H tags even will help some.

[Serg]

My forum took about 2-3 days to get relevant ads... then again I did not have that many posts when I started it..

[jdynamic]

I find Adsense ads tend to be fairly targetted within a few hours to a few days. But it depends on the variety of content on a single posting. If the conversations tend to contain the "wrong" keywords, it can trigger less-targetted ads.