Hey all. Great forum i stumbled across with a lot of very knowlegable people here. I just started to integrate adwords into my website and Blog. http://www.lazarusdesigns.com/blog Heres the problem that i have seen other people in this forum have as well but cant seem to find a solution. The adwords that are appearing are not relative to the blogs content. But what is wierd is it depends on the page im at. For example. On the first page of the blog, the ads are ALWAYS relating to Ski Resorts. There is nothing that i could see on the page that even relates. At first i thought it may have something to do with the calendar. No. I deleted the calender, and still the same results. I then went to page 2. Page 2 seems to be more relative to the blog content, even still, when you click on the actuall article you want to read about, they articles that come up all relate to a BLOG, even though the initial content on the blogs page related to that product (IE- Cell phones on page 2, there is content about phones, but when you click to read more on that article, all ads then relate to Blogs) Cant figure out for the life of me why this is happening. At first i thought that i may have to do with Google Adsense offerng content that people pay for the most relating to something on the site, meaning if someone pays more $ for Blog Advertizing, and i have something on the site relating to blogs, then that advertizer gets chosen over someone paying less for ads. So.... anyone have thoughts at what i need to do? I can only assume that there is an ASP page somewhere that has content on it relating to that Ad. That would make the most sense. BUt damned if i could figure that out.
I appreciate the filter, i saw that actually and added it yesterday... But still cant figure out the original question
Login to AdSense and use the contact link to send them an email about your problem. They will adjust the system for your site, as they have done for me on more than one occasion. AmCy
Yes, they are very helpful. It may take them up to a month or more to solve the issue but they'll do their best to get the best possbile ads showing on your site. A fix is good for you but it is also in their interest to have the most relevant ads running on your site. AmCy
Thank you for your email. The best way to receive relevant ads targeted towards the content of your blog is by making sure that your blog contains a lot of text-based content. When reviewing your blog I found that your blog does not contain enough text-based content for our system to identify and display relevant Google ads. Please note that our crawlers are unable to derive meaning from images and dynamic media such as Macromedia Flash and JavaScript. I recommend that you include more text-based content on your blog to assist our crawlers in gathering information about your pages and determining relevant ads to display. Complete sentences and paragraphs are helpful to our crawlers in determining the content of a page. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the results of any changes you make to your pages. If you make changes to a page, it may take up to 1 or 2 weeks before the changes are reflected in our index. With regards to the differences you are seeing after renaming the URL, please note that the crawlers used by Google AdSense index content by URL. Our crawlers consider URLs such as www.google.com and google.com to be different URLs, so we may index them at different times even if their content is the same. We deliver Google ads to a web page based on the content on the page at the time it is crawled but as our algorithms change as well, you might see different results. At this time, crawling is done automatically by bots and we're unable to control how often our crawlers index the content on your site. For additional questions, please visit our AdSense Support site at https://www.google.com/support/adsense or feel free to reply to this email. We'd also like to encourage you to let us know how we can improve our customer support. Please take a few minutes to fill out our brief survey at http://www.insightexpress.com/s/Google.asp?uid=0&resetposition=true. Your input is greatly appreciated. And this is my response Thank you for the answers to my questions.... But in your answer you suggested that i need to put more text in the content of the website for the blog. But if you look at www.lazarusdesigns.com/news it is literally filled with text for each blog article. I have noticed that, on some of the the articles, when you click to READ MORE and then taken to that particluar article, there is sometimes relevent content, but not always. I would say 98% of the time, the ads all relate to BLOGs. I have looked in my code, and i see that there are some links that have Blog in the code, but very few of them. If i need to change those links i will.
With regard to the email reply you posted, I think that you should try to paraphrase their comments next time. They aren't comfortable with people posting the contents of their emails and who knows what the consequences of such actions are. AmCy
Google doesn't approve blog pages as frequently due to the possibility of keyword manipulation. I find that the CTR is low for blogs anyway.