Hi all, I've recently laucnhed a gaming site dedicated to retro video gaming, offering downloads, reviews, tutorials, covers etc I'm trying to get good targeted keywords for a game review page, lets say for instance 'Shenmue' As i have a detailed description of the games i get a lot of ads related to 'Martial Arts' etc (what the game is about) Where I'd preffer ads such as: "Buy shenmue" "download shenmue" "free shenmue" Etc (you know what i mean) I was thinking of doing this using hidden text at the bottom and making the google adsense crawl that specific area, which would contain "Shenmue download, Buy Shenmue, Shenmue 1, shenmue 2, Shenmue Xbox, Shenmue Dreamcast" etc, but I am thinking this is against google TOS? Here's a sample of one of the ads I'm displaying: "Gwangung UK Suppliers of Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Weapons & Equipment " Thanks for any advice !
From past experience, do not use hidden text. Before I ever change something on my website related to adsense I ask myself whether I would be comfortable telling google what I am doing, if the answer is no, I forget the idea and more on to more important ideas such as creating more unique content.
"I was thinking of doing this using hidden text at the bottom and making the google adsense crawl that specific area, which would contain "Shenmue download, Buy Shenmue, Shenmue 1, shenmue 2, Shenmue Xbox, Shenmue Dreamcast" etc, but I am thinking this is against google TOS?" Yes, you are thinking right. Using Hidden text is a very bad idea.