Greetings all, I'm having a heck of a time getting my Adsense to match my page content. I've tried positioning it in various places throughout the code, seeding with comments, meta tags, etc... Regardless of what I do, the lil boogers continue to show ads about... adsense. Sometimes it'll loop CSS ads (again, something that's not really mentioned in my site). One strange thing that I've noticed, is that one of my sub-pages - a wallpapers page - is properly showing desktop wallpapers ads. So I'm not sure why that one is operating fine, while the others are acting dumb. Your advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you! My site is here: http://www.aardaerimus.com - Aardaerimus
Reminds me of when I had a page on Figures of speech in the bible. And the word "figures" which absolutely has to be on the page, triggered action "figures" ads. My redwood trees page will display too many tree service ads, so I have to use the word "redwoods" a lot - omitting "trees". A real pain, was a page on safe woods for parrots, where I had to list a tree by it's name "cascara buckthorn". It has medicinal purposes, and was triggering ads on health remedies. That was the hardest page I ever fought with due to other words which triggered disease related ads.
Check the adsense FAQ or help section, there is some code snippet you can wrap around areas of text that adsense should give a higher weight to for selecting ads that are targeted better. It helped for one page I used it on, but I don't know if it helps in every situation. I have heard meta tags can also be helpful.
Heheh That does sound like a pain, to be sure; however, I'm beginning to think that it's not a mere issue of misnomers so much as Adsense ignoring all content on the page. I don't think that it's simply misreporting, rather it acts like it sees nothing at all ~ at least that's the only thing that make sense if Google is only running ads for itself (adsense ads for adsense). I wonder how much Google is paying Google to advertise through adsense... lol I was kinda thinking it might at least go through some of the nouns in the content and find something worthy of putting in there.
Thanks, Tyler. I'll dig through the FAQ a bit, though I'm wondering if you're thinking of these tags: <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Code (markup): I have tried positioning them in various locations, including wrapping the whole body, still to no avail. Maybe I didn't give them enough time. I'm not entirely certain how long it should take for them to have an effect. As for meta tags, I did try seeding a couple, but it didn't seem to have any impact. I'll keep digging, but thanks again for the input.
<!-- google_ad_section_start --> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Code (markup): I was referring to that. I remember it taking 2-3 days for it to work properly, but it helped. I think I wrapped it around only a few sentences, rich in the keywords I wanted to target.
Ahhh! Well, I surely didn't give them 2-3 days to kick in. Maybe my frustrations have been driven by my own impatience. I'll give that a shot. Here's a little more advanced question: Say I wanted to surround only a couple of paragraphs with the aforementioned tags in a div, would it matter if that div had a "visibility:hidden" style applied to it? If not, I could see that as a good way to seed keywords. Also, can those tags be used more than once throughout the content?
I would advise against using hidden text period. Hidden text itself is considered spam by google and will probably lower your SERP's or worse yet, sandbox your site. That seems very spammy, and my guess is google is very careful with stuff like that. I have also questioned whether you could use it more than once on a page, but never found an answer. My guess would be that it is ok, AS LONG AS the quoted text has the same keywords or is very similar. I would wait to see if others agree or not...
You might just need to add more content (or higher keyword density) to your site to get the ads more focused
Goodness! I wouldn't think hidden text to be spam, so much as an ad director. Spam, to me, would be obtrusive "in your face", or unsolicited, forced advertising (which is something I've definitely encountered on numerous sites ~ including those with Google ads, unfortunately. I abhor such practices. Many sites will hide divs, though, simply as part of the site programming where the information should remain hidden until a specific link is clicked, thus revealing the content. One of my questions was answered almost immediately after an experiment, though. The hidden div is definitely seen, and the paragraph selection does work. I had results in minutes, this time.
your main page doesn't even have a content. on the right side of your main page, you mention about google ads. i think the best way to change your adsense ads is to put more text onto your page. i looked at your site, and still didn't know what your site is about.
I have been tearing my hair out over this same issue. My specialist site about hand made Rubik's puzzles include titles like "Siamese 6x6x6 Cube Puzzle" Instead of puzzle ads all I get are cats ads! I did a search for the code mentioned earlier and found a page by Google about it- google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=23168 (I can't post links here yet so you'll have to add the first part)
Since my last post around 10 minutes ago I have implemented this code and already it is working brilliantly. I set it to ignore all mentions of the word "siamese" and focused on the words "rubik's cube" in the text. Now I have adds coming up for Rubik's Cubes plus some for other puzzles. This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks a lot.