I am not not new to adsesne. But I have not really messed with it since I am more of an SAAS kind of website guy. But for the past 4 months in my down time I have been messing with a photography blog that I have. It currently gets approx 300 unique visitors a day and I sell about 6 amazon products a month along with approx 7 adsense clicks a day. All together the site alone makes about 100 dollars a month. Not much, I know, but I think I can be doing better with adsense. When I view the website myself Rarely will I ever see a relevant ad on there related to photography. I have disabled interest ads... still had irrelevant ads.... Then I disabled 3rd party ads... THEN ALL of the photography ads never appeared again.... Then I enabled 3rd party ads back, and started seeing photography ads again. And now I am back to 6-7 clicks a day. I am not sure if there is any secret or technique to help get rid of these ads that have nothing to do with photography but if anyone has any suggestions that would be great... I could sit here for weeks blocking advertisers urls but im not wasting my time. I do quite well with my SAAS sites so I am not going to waste my time on a 100 dollar a month blog... But I figured if there are any suggestions as to how I can get the ads more relevant to the site that would be great. I have already split tested the ad placement to know where the best spot for them are and which ones work best as far as image vs text.... Now I just need relevance so I can let this site work its hardest. Thanks in advance!
I also play around with the different options trying to get more relevant ads, but I don't think we can fully control they types of ads that Google decides to show.
To get relevant ads you need text on those pages. If you only have the photo and a small title, then the ads will be hardly related. With 300 unique visitors a day, you won't increase adsense earnings by far anyway, but you can double them at least, because 7 clicks for 300 unique visitors is already quite low from my point of view.
You can block the complete category of that ad, or you can also block only that ad too, after blocking any URL it takes 2-5 minutes for adsens to remove that ad from your account.