I've got a vBulletin forum. I understand about section targetting, but I don't really want to go in and edit all the templates to use section targetting...can I do a lazy man's way, and add some keywords to the footer template(which is site wide) of the forum under the copyright in the same color as the back ground, for adsense to pickup and work off of on pages that might be difficult like the user profile pages, private messaging, etc. I keep getting video game ads on these pages and its kind of pissing me off. I've got like 50 of them already filtered of on the adsense setup bu they seem to be never ending.
Footer placement should be ok, and just ad the advertisers you dont like to your competitive ad filter
You would still get better results from title tags, meta, h1, and contents but footer is better then nothing. Next time build a more dynamic site.
I've got plenty of content and the meta tags. The adsense isn't doing bad, I'm making over $10 a day pretty consistently, I just know it would do better if I could get rid of the irrelevant ads. I think a few words in the name of the site (which is repeated numerously on each page ) is what is kind of throwing off the adsense bot.
Keyword stuffing is bad for SEO. Why your site is not getting targeted ads? Are the posts targeted to some particular niche or it is all over the place? Use meta description wisely. Bite the bullet and learn how to mess with the template. Use section targeting.
I don't know for sure why I keep getting un-targetted ads. I'd assume because a few words in the name of my site could be mistaken for video game related stuff (I have the word, "World" and appears to be tossing all kinds of world of warcraft related stuff at me). My site is extremely targeted to my niche. It isn't overly popular one, but I am at the top of it. Site is long established, about 10 years old. Just now getting into using adsense even though I first opened an account in like 2006. If I can't add the keywords without damaging SEO then I'll just have to bite the bullet and add the section targetting to all of the templates manually. I was hoping I could kind of cheat and not have to go through the pain of doing that. Editing the templates isn't really the problem for me, its the # of them that will need to be edited. The main parts of the site, the index, the forum home, the sub-forums, and the post bits are all targeted fairly well. Its other areas like the social groups, albums, private messaging area, user profiles, etc that are getting the odd-ball stuff because there isn't as much text content as in the other places.