I have a site that mostly serves images and very little text. I am wondering how does AdSense approach serving ads on such a page and if AdSense would actually "read" the META tags for the description of the content. Or, maybe there is another way to do it?
From what Ive read google categories images based on the text surrounding the image and the description. I think the meta tags were abused a lot and google doesn't put too much weight into them.
You need to put some descriptive text in the areas around the images in your site. Try and use the best keywords in order to attract the best ads. Google 's spiders don't pay much attention to the stuff in meta tags so you can't rely on them too much. You could use the image title in the html image tag to give Google an idea of what your images are about, but relying on just that is going to severly limit your ability to focus the type of ads you're going to be delivered. Good luck with finding a solution.
Firstly name the images in a search friendly way. Like "high-paying-fake-adsense-cheque.jpg" and use descriptive keywords in the title and alt of the images. Cpm or ads that pay for views can me better sometimes.
I have a Soccer wallpaper site. Text under images and well described images works for me. Example: image1.jpg It would be better to put manchester_united_wallpaper.jpg
I have the same problem. Google Adsense does not like such sites. I monetize the project other systems.