Success against irrelevant AdLinks

Not section targeting, but distance brought success

[jetteroheller]

I have seveal theme oriented sub domains all linked together in the logo area.

There is an ALT text describing the other theme oriented sub domain where the link leads to.

In an 4 AdLink block had been most of the time 1 theme generated by the link to the other theme, but irrelevant to the current page.

I tried in January section targeting with

weight=ignore
logo area with the image links to the other theme oriented sub domains

But big surprise, AdLink had suddenly 2 themes from the stuff in the ignore section.

After this, I thought maybe the distance can make a difference. I removed the section targeting code and changed the sequence in the html file to a maximum distance from the AdLink code to the image links.

Now all 4 AdLinks are relevant.

[frox]

thanks, VERY interesting info..

[bumpski]

Yes

I found the (weight=ignore) function actually acts like a targetted section! I think this is an incomplete syntax not properly documented by Adsense. Perhaps the "weight" should be a number, who knows, but it certainly does not work as documented.

You can put the adsense code anywhere you want in the webpage and definitely affect the resultant ads. Use divs (or Front page "position" capability) to make the ads show where you need them to show on the page. One div to reserve space and another to absolutely position the ads in that space, leaving the code near the "good" keywords, or away from the bad.

If you truly need to hide something from Adsense put it in an IFrame. Google doesn't index IFrame content if you don't link to it. Adsense seems to ignore IFrame content. PLUS your pages load faster too!

[jetteroheller]

One div to reserve space and another to absolutely position the ads in that space

All my sites are only with <div position:absolute

So I can arrange the code in any order.

[trillianjedi]

Interesting find jetteroheller - thanks for sharing it.

I'll have a play with that.

TJ

[ken_b]

After this, I thought maybe the distance can make a difference. I ... changed the sequence in the html file to a maximum distance from the AdLink code to the image links.

jetteroheller

The other side of this, which your situation also illustrates, is that the content closest to the ad code affects the ads shown.

So putting very relevant text just above and below the ad code in your source page might be worth considering.

My opinion is that the less focused the page is, the more important this proximity in the source code is. This isn't a magic bullet to improve targeting, but in some cases it appears to help.