Hello! I've got huge problem with AD targeting on my techblog: www.techblog.tomksoft.com. When I've published article about iPhone, I've had few clicks, because most of advertisements were about iPhone (I think that it's because "iphone" keyword in url). But when Google Adsense bot went through my site, all ads are no longer about iPhone (there are about everything except iPhone - new, blog banners, x-ray etc.). Even text links are mostly about iPod. I am doing what I can - iPhone keyword is placed quite a lot in the content, it is in title, url and still nothing. I am also using sections. Due to extremely bad targeted ADs, my overall CTR is... under 0.20%! Is there any hope for me and my techblog?
Section targeting was already implemented when Google Adsense bot came. I've put it into the template.
Doesn't matter. Google takes its time finding out what ads work on new sites. Not that this subject seems terribly difficult, but still. If you've done everything right, wait a while for google to catch up. And if your site doesn't have too many visitors, it's going to take longer for google to figure out which ads to show. It can take thousands of page views (per page) for google to get reasonably optimized ads to a page. It's usually faster - but it can take that many.
Hello, I've had that exact same problem, what i noticed was the more relevant the ad that was "clicked" the more times ads of the same content will show. ie. if you have 4 ads, but the ad with the iphone gets clicked the most, like the above post, adsense will recognise this and put similar ads in place of the irrelevant ones. After a few weeks of clicks on my articles google put nothing but exact ads now which is great for the CTR.
So, that's a next big problem - ADs are so bad targeted that nearly noone clicks it... Anyway, thanks for information!
Just bear with it, they will be soon enough. On some of my sites the ads were showing all sorts of stuff before they eventually become targeted. (before google "analized" the page so to speak) maybe another thought though, if you are getting 1 or 2 specific urls that keep showing up that are not targeted you can filter them from showing on your site. also, if your keyword for the page is iphone. experiment with putting the keyword within the text a couple more times.
The funniest thing is that before Adsense bot came to my site, ads were ok... Waiting for targeted ads on blog is very bad thing
If you have a properly SEO'd site with keywords in bold, italic, H tags, you should get better targeted ads when the bots return
* section targeting * using human readable urls * using related description and keywords * blocking mfa sites these are the general rules of getting more related ads