www.PhotoRestorations.Org This site has links to individual photo restoration experts in 50 states, and each of those state pages is a PR3. The problem is, I've done a lot of testing with new pages and how adsense displays on them, and I've determined that, at least in this case, the name of the page (not the title) plays a big role. For example, when all else on a page deals with photo restoration and doesn't even mention a state, but the state is called utah.html, then adsense sees it as about Utah and the ads are about Utah. I've tried many things and this seems to be true, at least for this page. I now believe that if I change the individual states from "state.html" to "photorestorationstate.html" then adsense will read it correctly and show relevant stuff instead of very general state related stuff. My problem is, by doing that, I'm losing out on 50+ pr3 pages right? Just figured I'd mention what I'm about to do in case someone is aware of a problem I'm going to run into. Austin
You could 301 redirect the "state.html" to "photorestorationstate.html" Then google will pass the PR and any onbound links will endup in the right place
I just did something similar. Although I changed all the details + content on the page too. Dont worry about the page rank worry about your SERPS. If you have particular terms that generate alot of the traffic,then make sure you focus on not losing those. 301 redirects are what google recommends and it will drop your old pages if you delete them. Also, your new pages will show PR0 anyway. until the next update.
I have had similar situations. I think the h1 is creating most of the problem. Try making the state name an image for each page and leave the rest in the h1. You may still get a few state related ads but only if there are no photo restoration ads available. The title will do it too, so if you don't want state ads you'll still need to remove the state name from it. If you redirect to a new file name but leave the state in the title you will probably still see the state ads.
What made me think that the issue was just the name was this test: photorestorations.org/utah.html photorestorations.org/test.html (doesn't mention utah, is brand new page, and still has Utah ads) http://photorestorations.org/jamica.html (although I mispelled Jamaica in the name, it's very similar to test.html, but this one has jamaica ads) then http://photorestorations.org/photorestorationjamaica.html This advertises UTAH! Where does it get that from, if it's a brand new page. I was told that a brand new page would be targeted instantly. I've got good web position and PR for this site, it's #3 on google for the main search term. But I'm not getting any adsense benefit because the ads are so NOT relevant.
Thanks for your help. I'm going to get this fixed. I appreciate you being willing to share experience and when I get more I'll pass it along too!
I'd go with the 301 redirect since you know you get better results that way. With the 301 you won't lose your rank or your links. Let us know how it works out for you.