AdSense Ad Relevance: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

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AdSense Ad Relevance: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

eeek

11:45 pm on Mar 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

Ad relevance continues its plunge on my sites. Anybody else having a similar problem?

zomega42

11:48 pm on Mar 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

Same here. My niche is small so I figured that some of the bigger advertisers had just lowered their budgets, not that google was having targetting problems.

eeek

12:03 am on Mar 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

My niche isn't small and targeting shouldn't be a problem. But I'm still being overwhelmed with ads that are nothing but used food. Even when a page does get good ads they don't last very long. If this keeps up, I'll be looking for something to replace AdSense.

OptiRex

1:42 am on Mar 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

Answer to question - No

How generic are you?

psychdoc

1:47 am on Mar 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

Mine have really changed in relevance also, along with my revenue because of the lack of relevance.

eeek

7:17 am on Mar 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

How generic are you?

Some pages a very generic; some pages are very specific; most pages lie somewhere between.

One of the problems I'm seeing is AdSense is keying off of strings in the URLs and this can all too often be dead wrong. I'm also seeing a lot of ads that lean a lot to the scam side of things which doesn't help with clicks in the least.