poor relevance

adsense going sloppy?

[Billy_Blue]

seriously i would make tons of more cash if it werent for the poor relation between contents and ads

i have like a forum for cars and it shows #*$!en flowers for sale

i wish we could pick our "categories" somehow that would rock

[BadSense]

Funny - my site has nothing to do with cars, and I can't get rid of these damn Ford Explorer ads.

:-)

[Billy_Blue]

wanna trade hehe

[fredw]

I filtered the ford ad and it went away for me. Hint: Use the domain in the secondary url, not the main url in "adurl".

Of course, you also have to wait a half a day for new filters to take effect...

[Billy_Blue]

"Hint: Use the domain in the secondary url, not the main url in "adurl"."

Please explain.

[remove]

i'd like to get rid of my ford ad as well. it just won't leave and my site has nothing to do with cars. how do you do this?

[fredw]

You can't get the url to filter from the AS Preview Tool for CPM ads because CPM ads don't show there.

So, the alternate way to get the url of an ad you want to filter is [very carefully so as not to click on the ad] right-click on the bold portion of the ad and select "Properties" and in address (you'll probably have to scroll it by dragging with your mouse) look for the part that follows "adurl=".

In the case of the ford ad, the url that followed "adurl=" was [IIRC] doubleclick. Look deep into the doubleclick url to find another url. That's the url you want to filter, not doubleclick.

This definitely worked for me in the case of the ford ad.

[Billy_Blue]

HEH no wonder i dont make a car a day like you guys

my ads are freaking totally unreleavant

i dont get this i thought google was contextual more like craptextual if you as kme

[Meike]

Lack of good contextualization may have something to do with lower ad inventory as advertisers pull their campaigns over the holiday. Perhaps?

[brokenbricks]

The main page of my site is getting unrelated ads and very broadly related ads. only 1 ad when it the adsense preview tool shows tons of different avaialble ads, furthermore my link unit doesn't appear.
This is happening for 7 days now, every other page on my site shows more approriate ads and the Adlink shows. I'm no doubt losing money, my click rate is brutal.

[berto]

The link unit on my highest-earning page--my home page--has disappeared for over a week now, too.

A month ago, ad targeting was great on that page. Site visitors were clicking, I was earning money, Google was too.

Then (due to an ad matching algorithm change?) I began seeing off-topic link unit categories. In response, I tweaked the page (repositioned a page element) to try and sharpen the focus.

Big mistake.

A week later, four link unit ad categories were reduced to one.

I restored the page to its original layout and content.

A few days later, the link unit vanished completely.

This is not really due to advertisers shutting down for the holidays. On other pages, I am seeing four link unit categories much like what I saw on the home page before I mucked things up.

Before, that page earned > 50% of my Adsense revenue for this site. With the disappearance of the link unit, I am now earning very little from that page, and my site-wide clicks and revenues are cut by more than half.

Adsense can really be bonkers at times.