confused about ads

My site is displaying ads for power cords, but my site is about geeky games, toys, comics, etc.
I don't get it.

 

Check on keywords weight of your website. As adsense delivers ad on the basis of text available on your site!

 

not one word on my site says "power" or "cord", yet all my ads are for power cords.

 

AdSense has a feature to exclude certain advertisers by URL, you could use that, until all the power cord ads have gone. I did the same thing on one of my sites, after excluding a load of URLs, I ended up with ads, which were actually relevant!

 

what is the url of the page? we can have a look and maybe we can tell u why !!

 

http://www.mygeekyplace.com/

 

No PR, no backlinks, not listed in any search engines that I can see.

Sandbox

BTW, all I see are PSA's.

 

what are backlinks?

 

a backlink is a link back to the page or one of the pages that currently link to the page you're using. Backlinks are particularly helpful in getting your site indexed by SE's as well as getting PR to your site. The more (good/high PR) bl's you have the easier it will be for an SE to spider through your site.

In any event many SE's (google included) consider the number of backlinks and relevancy of those backlinks to your page as a way of determining placement of your page in the SERPs.

You can see your backlinks by typing: link:www.your-site.com in a Google Search window.

 

I do see the power codrd ads. Have no idea why

 

One of the ads I see is xbox power cord.. so its possible that they are all advertising for the keyword xbox?


Josh

 

this is driving me nuts. my site has nothing to do with power cords

 

Another interesting point:

If I go through:

http://mygeekyplace.com

I see ads related to Xbox and related to your site.

But if I go through http://www.mygeekyplace.com

I see ads related to power cord, international cables and so on.

Pretty confusing

 

Does Adsense automatically detect the best ads to display??

-Josh

 

weird, I wonder why...

 

I'm not sure that your site is already spidered by adsensebot. I've used adsense sandbox tool for the keywords 'power cord' and it shows a lot of adsense links. This means there keywords are very competitive and maybe Google shows these ads by default before your site is spidered.
Btw, I couldn't find your site on google, do not forget to submit your site:
*http://www.google.com/addurl/

 

I did, last week. I don't know how long it takes.

 

Might be the links you have on your site have something to do with Power Chords! Or might be in the past you had these keywords at some point on your site.

Surprizingly google is soooo slow to update the AdSense Ads... the same thing happened to me too.

If you look at http://aboos.blogspot.com; you will see all "ebay" ads... now there is nothing related to ebay in my blog now... but in the past, I had a post related to "ebay announcement" .. and thats what made AdSense think that my content is still about "ebay"

 

Thanks, last week, I posted something about the Xbox replacement cord. How long does it take to update itself?

 

If you modify a page with Adsense on it, the page might carry the old ads for weeks. It happened to me once. Ask Shawn. He knows how to get targeted Ads for a page with dynamic contents.