Comments on: When Google AdSense Doesn’t Provide Relevant Ads On a Blog

By: gout

gout — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:25:58 +0000

yes…I have experience about no relevent adsense with my topic blog…..after a month running….my ads change very relevant with my topic posting…I am very happy

By: Cookiemouse

Cookiemouse — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:28:46 +0000

Today on my food blog I had an ad about female escorts in Amsterdam on a post about cutting down trees! Really in context. Often I find Adsense totally off the mark.

By: lonifasiko

lonifasiko — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:49:14 +0000

Forgot the official link to Google AdSense help:

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hlrm=en&answer=23168

By: lonifasiko

lonifasiko — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:48:15 +0000

Just in case you use any “conflictive word” in your post, you can always paste the following code into your HTML so that AdSense bot ignores that section:

By: Guy On Midlife Crisis

Guy On Midlife Crisis — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:35:27 +0000

This just popped into my in-tray: Introducing the Ad Review Center. "In an effort to provide you with more transparency and control over the ads appearing on your pages, we've developed the Ad Review Center."

By: Guy On Midlife Crisis

Guy On Midlife Crisis — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:25:54 +0000

Ginkgo100 LOL!! do christians purchase light bulbs?

By: Guy On Midlife Crisis

Guy On Midlife Crisis — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:06:27 +0000

J.D, get a good book on SEO, it will be worth it. Keyword density is about identifying the amount of times your chosen keywords for your market appear in your site/blog. It is critical for optimising your site for search engines and also will be looked at by Adsense when making up its mind what ads to serve you up. There’s more to it than that. For example, if you have a financial investment site and you spend a lot of time talking about your fishing weekend, then the word fishing may come up more than the word finance, so Adsense serves you up lots of fishing tackle ads.

Hey C nads, maybe your market does buy womens shoes and prom dresses?

By: C nads

C nads — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:54:27 +0000

Yeah I have mainly videos and pictures on my blog (and not as much text) I also have a post where I make fun of some people at a formal (yeah i know i’m a jerk) but all the adsense ads are for Prom Dresses and Women’s shoes. I actually got a lot of page views but no click-throughs. I guess I got what was coming to me!

for now i’ve switched over to some affiliate ads through commision junction for yahoo hotjobs and stuff. I figure most of the people looking at my blog are doing it from work. And most people hate their jobs. Probably not a great plan but it’s all I have thought of so far.

If anyone wants to give me any suggestions about what type of ads I should use I would be glad to hear it!

By: Ginkgo100

Ginkgo100 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:14:34 +0000

I saw something similar to this on a blog today, although it was from Amazon Affiliates, not Adsense. The post was on Christianity, and included a quote from Madeleine L’Engle about showing non-believers “a lovely light” in your life — a metaphor for Jesus. In the sidebar, Amazon dutifully featured several light bulbs available for purchase.

By: J.D.

J.D. — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:59:11 +0000

My competitive ad filter is full, and has been for more than a year.

I don’t know what you mean by “keyword density”. I just write about personal finance! If I have to worry about things like “keyword density”, I maintain that Adsense isn’t doing the job it was intended to do…

By: Guy On Midlife Crisis

Guy On Midlife Crisis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:31:12 +0000

JD, Im not sure Adsense see the competitive filter as a way to restrict inappropriate ads. So far I think they may have missed that trick..

Give it a try .. but I would imagine there are a lot of pyramid and get rich quick scams out there for you to filter out however…

Also, sorry to ask the obvious, but are you ensuring your keyword density is good?

By: Guy On Midlife Crisis

Guy On Midlife Crisis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:13:29 +0000

Star Life, go to the competitive filter and add any URLs you see that you don’t think are suitable.

I know its manual but after a while you will loose common advertisers that don’t match. This is what I did and keep an eye open for any new misplaced adverts once in a while.

Hell, you never know, some of them might actually work!!

Also, don’t forget Daren’s warning above, very useful although I would have thought if someone is going to place their own account in place of yours they would be traceable via Google ADsense.

By: J.D.

J.D. — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:32:12 +0000

I run a fairly large blog about personal finance. The ads on my site suck. Why? I think it’s because the site is called “Get Rich Slowly”. When I look at the ads on my colleague’s sites, they’re for financial services, etc. But me? Even after two years and millions of visitors, I get ads for pyramid schemes and other scams. It doesn’t just go away after a day or two. Or a year or two. And the Adsense team doesn’t have any useful suggestions for improving things, either. (Not that I’m bitter.)

By: Star Life Media

Star Life Media — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:48:04 +0000

does anyone know of a way to maybe tweak it to make the ads more relevant? For example, would “Adsense secrets” contain such topics?

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:04:17 +0000

Adsense worked fine on my site although shoppingads had this type of issue with my blog when I installed them. I had those for about 3 days and ended up removing them because they were showing completely irrelevant ads.

By: Guy On Midlife Crisis

Guy On Midlife Crisis — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:44:56 +0000

I did an article on infidelity and got ads about meeting up with married women and men!!

This is when you need to find out the URLs of the sites and add it into the competitive filter.

Even though they aren’t your competitors the feature will kill these sites from entering your site and so its very useful for both reasons.

At the end of the day you do have to laugh at some of the mistakes.

By: Vered - MomGrind

Vered - MomGrind — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:44:06 +0000

“The problem comes when you can’t block advertisers that you don’t know about because they are targeted to overseas readers.”

I didn’t think about that. Most of my readers are based in the US, but not all of them.

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:51:30 +0000

yeha… I would support Ryan.. Adsense is great to make some money whether your ads are related to your contents….

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:25:22 +0000

I finally gave in and put a trial run of Adsense on my one blog, mainly because I used the adsense tester at Aaron Wall’s site to see what kind of ads would come up. It showed some really good targeted ads, so I signed up with Adsense.

Well, I haven’t seen one ad that would cause me to click on it yet. So, off they came. I made less than a dollar on them. If the ads served were the same ones that showed up on the testing page, then I might have actually had a decent click through rate.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:50:08 +0000

I would say that never experience such type of collusion in my blog. Because would believe that the contentual postion and upgrade of your blog would give room to a better ad interaction.