ronburk - 8:57 pm on Aug 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

The idea is interesting but in my opinion is incomplete.

Just "interesting"? Well, you wait for the feature you want, but I've got plenty of use for this feature. Like on the pages that have a couple of occurrences of a word that AdSense seems to incorrectly become obsessed with. Or articles that include analogies to make a point -- and then AdSense pitches me ads related to the analogous topic instead of to the real point of the article.

Or best of all -- maybe I can quit having to do some keyword tweaking to convince AdSense what the real topic is. Like, I could write about traveling to Mars and Venus, and include a little comment to AdSense that says "yeah, I know I only used the phrase 'outer space' twice, but it's rather strongly related to the topic of this article".

I hope this means that Google is now confident enough that their other mechanisms can weed out most AdSense spammers, so they can let real content providers give some hints to guide AdSense. Heh, in fact, I kinda hope using this new mechanism attracts increased attention from the Spam Squad. I mean, you can kinda guarantee all AdSense spammers are going to try this as soon as they hear about it, right?

At last, some hope that the content creator can help get AdSense back on topic when it gets confused. I'm going to try it right now -- sure hope it works!