Comments on: Adsense Testing Site Topic Signaling

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:31:06 +0000

“Adsense Feed”

There is a new option in Blogger – to “Insert your adsense feed script” or something.

http://www.theblahbrain.com

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:30:33 +0000

“Adsense Feed”

By: Tony Lawrence

Tony Lawrence — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:03:49 +0000

One simple thing that would solve 90% of adsense problems is if Google would let us say what a page is NOT about..

But I’m glad they are doing this and hope that it is on a page basis and integrated with sitemaps.. but I bet it won’t be :-)

By: Telling Adsense about your site

Telling Adsense about your site — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:29:03 +0000

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By: graywolf

graywolf — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:34:45 +0000

Try removing the “b” word from everywhere on your page and try not to mention the “b” word too often in your posts. It helps keep “b” related advertising to a minimum.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:33:16 +0000

I should say that we have Adsense ads spread across over a hundred pages in everything from women’s issue sites, hobby sites, alternate lifestyle sites right down to all the pages on my small business blog and that index page on the small business blog was the only one that had inappropriate ads.

That’s why I was so baffled.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:24:21 +0000

I’m quite the opposite when it comes to adsense – the ads seems very well targeted and relevant. That isn’t to say I wouldn’t like to have further control over specific aspects of the ads, but I can see a potential for sites taking advantage and getting inappropriate ads served up.

It would be nice however to diversify slightly on the ads – perhaps serve up adverts that would be of benefit to your readers that would not normally get served up – ie your site talks a bout a specific make of car, yet your readers might be interested in a similar model from another manufacturer, or be interested in a bank loan because they want to buy one etc. The only way to get either of those served up currently would be to start manipulating the content, which is akin to spamming to get the result you want.

I suppose if google were to introduce some sort of webmaster targeting, they would put check and balances in place to ensure that no one was manipulating the system. High paying keywords totally unrelated to your site probably won’t pay anyway – why would person A interested in widgets click on an advert for (insert high paying ad here) when its nothing to do with widgets?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:19:01 +0000

I think I’ve had some experience of that. For some weeks now the front page of my small business related site has been displaying ads for spiritual development and help in times of divorce – hardly the sort of thing that’s going to sell well on a small business site.

I tweaked and fiddled – changed the title in the metas – changed the title on the page – reworded some of the text on the page – changed words in the Meta description and ended up with … ads about growing flowers.

Finally I wrote to them over the weekend and they replied last late yesterday and told me they had fixed it at their end.

Sure enough it’s now displaying appropriate Adsense ads.

Their customer service was great but I would love to know what was on my page was triggering those inappropriate ads.