Question about Adsense and Keywords

How does Adsense know which ads to place..

[Barb]

Hi all - new to Adsense. I've had the banner and search bars on my site for about 3 or so weeks now. Made a whopping 26 cents in that time and the site is not offically off and running (still building the shopping cart, loading products, and building informational pages so it's not just a store).

My site has several subjects: candles, soaps, crystals/gemstones, etc just to name a few.

It seems all I get are candle related Adsense ads. Is this because "candles" is the first keyword in my meta tag?

How does Adsense know which ads to place on my site and if it's by the first keyword in the meta tag, how does one get Adsense to display ads for the other keywords?

[John Carpenter]

Did you try section targeting?

[google.com...]

[eeek]

Is there a way to get adsense to stop targeting substrings from the url?

[Barb]

John,

Thank you for the link for section targeting. I did not know this feature existed. I will implement this soon as I am still building the site itself. That should help provide ads that cover the various products I offer instead of just one.

Thanks!

Barb

[CaWebSites]

You need to make sure that all your produces are represented on your home page in the way of text within the body of the page. Also, mention your products in the H1 heading at the top of the page. Next, make seperate pages loaded with your product keyword and make the url represent the product as well. Seperate pages with url mentioning your individual products should help with getting the proper ads. The H1 title and URL plus the page text seems to be major components in the ads on your pages.