Preview Tools and Targetting

New to this stuff ...

[toothless]

I am building, and trying to figure why the google ads showing up are not focused on the page content - no matter what I try. I've spent a couple of days testing stuff but am not convinced this adsense is going to focus ads enough to be effective.

I have been using the preview tool. I think it must be pretty dumb. With some test pages, the adsense ads it shows are off target. I can totally change the information, the title, the meta stuff on the test page, and the results remain general, and unfocused. When Binoculars came up as bird feeders, I started spending time with test files.

Does anybody know implicitly how the preview tool works? Apparently the <!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --> stuff does not affect the tool either.

The site has not been crawled yet so I am not sure if that makes any difference.

Do the ads get placed based on what Google has crawled and indexed on the site? if so, then how often does Google re-crawl the site?

Wish I weren't so green! ;-)

[edited by: martinibuster at 8:28 pm (utc) on Feb. 6, 2006]
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[moishe]

You need to get a few inbound links to the site with anchor text that lets Google know what the site is about.

As the site gets crawled, the ads will become relevent, assuming there are relevent ads available.

As an example:

If the site is all about "widgets", your inbound links (from pages that get crawled themselves and are relevent to "widgets") should have anchor text like "widget information" or "widget reviews".

You may next ask, "how do I get these links?", the answer is simple, spend a lot of time reading this forum and learing.

Finally, welcome to WebmasterWorld

Moishe