Improvements to DP Forum Ad Relevancy

Discussion in 'Support & Feedback' started by Cryogenius, Aug 8, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi Shawn,

    Could the relevancy of the ads shown here be improved with the addition of section targeting? I.e. <!-- google_ad_section_start --> and <!-- google_ad_section_end --> tags around the individual posts so that they are weighted above the navigation portions of the site.

    At the moment, it seems really hard to get anything other than AdSense ads... So, it would be really good if this could get fixed :)

    Cheers, Cryo.
     
    Cryogenius, Aug 8, 2006 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    The bigger problem with AdSense relevancy in the forum is that the vast majority of the ads here are CPM, so...
     
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    Would you be willing to give it a try, just to see if there was any benefit? I can't see it doing any harm at least, and perhaps we'd get a slight increase in non-CPM ads...

    Cheers, Cryo.
     
    Cryogenius, Aug 10, 2006 IP
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    According to the (very limited) data I have from displaying ads on DigitalPoint Forums, I get 10 times the impressions of Contextual Ads compared to Site Ads. The following is from my Adsense account for the month of August, showing the number of impressions for the digitalpoint channel:

    
      Contextual  985  
      Site         94
    
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    I don't want to be begging, but...
     
    Cryogenius, Aug 23, 2006 IP