I have worked hard to insert keywords into my content (at the beginning of text and near ad code) that will attract moderate paying ads but still remain relevant to my site content. It worked for a minute and I saw $70 days for the first time. But after a few days Google bot will ignore my keywords - in other words, force my ads back to ringtones and hip hop ads after a few days even though my content has not changed. Interestingly enough, I have noticed that as soon as the ads change I then see targeted ads by advertisers who want to display their new CD's and artists on my site. Please note that my site url is not hip hop related and neither is the name of my site. This is BS because these ads - even though they are targeted - still don't pay as much as the ads that my keywords were bringing.
Filtering ads is actually really bad, in my opinion. Filtering ads is made only for competitors. The Smart Pricing by Google will always display the highest paying ads for your site. Doing keyword targeting like that just to 'trick' the bots into thinking yuo have different content will not work. Ads will always be relevent to the content on your site. Keyword stuffing is illegal and you could be rejected from the program if you do it.
fsmedia, filtering ads is a very beneficial way to control the ads on your site. It is ludicrous to allow ads to sit on your site that are low paying and no one is clicking. Google does not always display the highest paying ads. That's nonsense. I have filtered 1 cent ads only to see them replaced with $2 ads. So far it is working well. My earnings have increased by 30% so I must be doing something right. By the way I am not keyword stuffing. I do not like the hip hop ads because they are very low paying. Hip hop is mentioned in a very small area of my website but the bot picks up on that and serves hip hop ads and ringtones. So I have moved the hip hop content away from my ads and I place my pertinent content closer to the ads. My readers don't notice anything different. They love the gossip and the exclusive news.
Are you using section targetting around the keyword you want in the ads? <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> And using the ignore around keywords you don't want to include (i.e. the hip-hop ones). <!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --> <!-- google_ad_section_end(weight=ignore) -->
Yes I am using those tags exactly. I don't know if so many tags are confusing the poor bots. For the last 2 days no ads have shown up on my main page. Others have complained about that in other threads. Today I moved yesterday's content to page 2 and guess what: the ads show up on page 2 with the same content! Go figure