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OK - I've run a few successful arb campaigns and have never had a problem with my Adsense targeting. Right now I am having a large site built and I cannot seem to get targeted ads more than 50% of the time. What could I be doing wrong?

Right now I use the keyword in the subdirectory (example/keyword.html), in the H1 header, the image title, and the description. I use the keyword for the keyword meta tag even. What else could I do? These pages are dynamically generated and are on a variety of topics.

Would the Content Meta tag have a large influence on the Adsense? It seems my homepage content tag is the same for my inner pages as well - other than the keyword inserted to the end of the tag.

I have also noticed that the AdSense link unit I put up top is almost always untargeted, while the AdSense blocks I have on the pages will be about 25% of the time. Why would they target differently?

One quick thought - if the AdSense ID was inputted incorrectly would this affect how ads are shown? I have the pub-id rotated between myself and a friend of mine who helped with the site - could it be that he gave an incorrect pub-id and that is what is screwing up the ads most of the time?

btw- should I email Google about my page views? The site developers did not think to use the 'test' code in the adsense, so I have been racking up a few hundred views a day on my site, with no click throughs... how long until my quality score is made lower?

Thanks for any help!
 


I'd love to hear what others think. I have a targetted site about a health condition, but half the time the ads show an unrelated health condition. I just thought that Goog didn't have any exactly targetted inventory so that threw it off.
 
Is your adsense code before your header tags and keyword filled copy? Don't know if that would have any effect, but worth switching around just to try.
 
Have you tried surrounding your content with the google ad section tags?
Like this...
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->

Keyword related content

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

I also surround my untargetted content with the (weight=ignore)
Like this...
<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->

Code; Navigation sections; Ad sections;

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

This helped my adsense sites. Your mileage may vary.

- Major
 
Interesting - I do not have the google sections targeted. Would adsense really read the code instead of a comments section to determine the ads?

I am going to try both the above suggestions - for some reason most of my ads are for Korean moves, drama, DVDs, etc - and there is NO reference to any of these things on my site whatsoever!

-edit- if I target a section for the ads (a small article), do I also need to target the H1 header as well? I would like to lend more weight to the header than the articles - as the articles are user-submitted and I feel they will tend to have more on-topic titles than MFA articles with the KWs repeated often...
 
MajorTripp said:
Have you tried surrounding your content with the google ad section tags?
Like this...
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->

Keyword related content

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

I also surround my untargetted content with the (weight=ignore)
Like this...
<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->

Code; Navigation sections; Ad sections;

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

This helped my adsense sites. Your mileage may vary.

- Major
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SWEET! I didn't know about thecode for the unralated stuff... nice.
 
1. check your meta-tags for each page
2. do you have sites that are supposed to get those ads? (korean dvd's, etc.) i've had ads that usually appear on my colonics and skin disease sites appear on my sleep site so that could be a google issue.
3. check your table/div/img titles and id's. i usually force ads on my sites by spamming my own titles and id's with the terms i want ads for and it works. i first did it with my online games site where goog ads paid like .03 to .05 cents. i renamed all my titles and ids and images with dating terms and i ended up with dating ads that paid a little bit more all over.
 
MajorTripp said:
Have you tried surrounding your content with the google ad section tags?
Like this...
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->

Keyword related content

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

I also surround my untargetted content with the (weight=ignore)
Like this...
<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->

Code; Navigation sections; Ad sections;

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

This helped my adsense sites. Your mileage may vary.

- Major
Click to expand...

Even though he got banned for eBook promotions this is from Googles Page, Section targeting can help, wrap the tags around the content you want Adsense to pull keywords from and it won't worry about the rest of your page, you can place the <!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --> tags around the keywords (Or blocks of content like navigation bars) to remove those keywords from being found.

Plus if you've just tossed up your adsense try to refresh your page a bunch of times it helps after 20 refreshes if nothing else works, needs time to calculate or some crap. I've had similar targeting problems.
 
a little update - still waiting for the coders to implement the code above, but I also noticed that pages are starting to target better now... it just took longer than my arb sites ever did (maybe b/c the code is much more complex and longer?). I hope this means that once a page is targeted, it stays targeted - and doesn't do the same thing every time someone new views the adsense from their computer...

I will also add the ignore adsense feature to all code from my template... even though I can't imagine why google would look at that code, maybe it will help the bots decide what ads to show faster?
 
EMP - read your article and I was always using an underscore in between words for my arb pages, and things turned out fine. Have you come to any conclusions about the dash? Thoughts on that?

It seems my pages are coming up as such... 'example.com/niche%20area.html' (for title 'niche area') I not not know why the pages are showing that '%20' instead of a dash - is that something anyone here knows about? I have asked the programmers about it as well.

Thanks again.

-Edit - I'm stupid, the pages are .asp, not html - nevermind the said above...
 
I've had the same thing happen to a few of my pages. I notice that when I over do it with keywords it screws things up. For example, if I use the keyword for the sub directory name and image names, it'll mess up the add targeting. It probably leaves some kind of foot print that the bot catches and marks your site as MFA and then screws with your ads.
 
ugh - pages started targeting better than ever last night... now back to normal and nothing has changed.

I'm going to use that ignore code on every single piece of code other than the descriptions and keywords...
 
I had a similar issue with my site's main page. The individual topics and pages targetted fine, but the main page was always way off. I ended up doing a PHP header redirect with appending '?q=appropriate keyword' to the end of the url - something like www.site.com/q=my-keyword-for-this-page - and it now targets perfectly.

I also added code to make sure that the redirect didn't occur for the big bots, so I didnt screw up my seo...

A little work to implement, but it works out well in the end.

Matt
 
I had similar issues with the main page of my site. All my categories and individual pages targetted fine, just my main site page didn't.

So, I ended up using a PHP Header redirect, while appending the first topic's on the page keyword like '?q=the-keyword'. I made sure that didn't occur for the big bots, just mostly for people.

So, then you end up with www . mysite . com /?q=keyword. This now targets perfectly. A little work to implement, but much better results than before.

-Matt
 
Thanks for the big tips! I also made my page name shorter. It was
/blah-anotherblah-abc changed to /blah

That helped increase the percentage of times correct ads came up.

That still wasn't perfect, so I'm going to try the tags next.
 
well I used the weight=ignore tag on every bit of code other than what I wanted to be seen, and used the target code on what I wanted adsense to see, and results have been much much better.

I still takes a while for pages to target correctly - longer than my simple arb pages that target almost instantly- but its certainly working!

Thanks for the tips guys!
 
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