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Discussion in 'Guidelines / Compliance' started by dshah, Aug 24, 2005.

  1. #1
    is it violation of google TOC to put keywords in URL for sake of getting specifc ads?

    like: www.yourdomain.com/index.html?p=insurance

    tia
     
    dshah, Aug 24, 2005 IP
  2. seodelhi

    seodelhi Active Member

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    I dont think this is mentioned anywhere in their TOC, everybody loves to have keyword specific URL's
     
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    I don't get it. What is so special about this url?
     
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  4. dshah

    dshah Well-Known Member

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    there is keyword inserted in it (insurance). There is no other purpose of that keyword but to generate insurance related ads from google.

    I imagined this trick, but not sure how valid it is

    if you have page showing google adsense, try this technique and you get ads for whatever keyword you want (send me pm if you are not clear yet)
     
    dshah, Aug 24, 2005 IP
  5. fryman

    fryman Kiss my rep

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    lol, and do you really think that doing that will get you insurance ads??
     
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  6. dshah

    dshah Well-Known Member

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    try it yourself. I might be too new to all this, but it seems to work, at least when google runs out of ads for your content
     
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    Will.Spencer NetBuilder

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    Which you can now force to happen with the new <!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --> directive...
     
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    dshah Well-Known Member

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    I am new to this, could you explain what is it. TIA
     
    dshah, Aug 24, 2005 IP
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    Hope they won't accept it. Any redirection of keyword is not ok.
    It should be actually being searched or clicked on the ad. Not redirection!
    Please tell me if I am wrong
     
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    Actually URLs play a very big part of ads displaying on pages with little content.

    With more content they don't have much impact, but on sparse pages, a single world in a path could be the trigger for all your ads.
     
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    I guess what you say might be right. But more appropriate content would do wonders to the kind of ads that show up on the page. I think more than the title, its the content floating around on the page.
     
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    I've played around with adding stuff like ?q=insurance on some urls and it does make some difference. But I only played with it, never tried to make it a permanent thing. The idea came from another post here were someone was getting too many PSAs (public service announcements) and was able to stop getting so many with this trick. However, if you start using keywords in URLs (which aren't really a part of the url, see example above again) which stray too far from the nature of the page content, Google isn't going to accept that.

    For the poster who mentioned using the new feature, <!-- google_ad_section_start -->, I don't think this is quite the same. This technique is supposed to help mediabot concentrate on the stuff that's content and/or ignore the stuff which is just navigation or common page elements, but the AdSense indexer does seem to put decent weight on keywords in the URL.
     
    wkw, Aug 24, 2005 IP