targeting

Adsense targeting on more "abstract topics"

[level80]

I run Adsense on a website about computer games. I don't think the Adsense bot plays many. For example I'll get holiday ads for France on a page about "101 Airborne: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy", ads for industrial robots about ones of the merely imaginary kind etc. Although section targeting has helped improve the relevancy and I can understand the logic (and maybe the Adsense bot knows more about cross-marketing than I) it still seems illogical at times.

Yes I could rephrase the page. However I have some questions:-

What is the optimum words on a page for context relevant Adsense ads (yes I do know that this is partly dependent on advertisers being there for it)?

How do you stop a bot just latching onto one keyword out of context and showing irrelevant ads?

Does the bot learn (through CTR, CPC etc) based on user behaviour how to show better ads or is it a merely capitalist bot?

[Vadim]

I am second to ask about this.

For example in my page about widgets there is the regular for this type of the widget term, say (not real)
widget circle.
Now almost all my adds are about the geometry and not about the widgets. Google_ad_section does not help.

In another page I casually mentioned "widgets philosophy" that has special meaning in the widget domain (not philosophy). Now the majority of adds are about philosophy, though the page neither about philosophy nor about the type of the widgets that are in the combination "widgets philosophy" . Again Google_ad_section does not help.

It looks like Google adsense bot don't trust my meta tags, title etc and try to figure out itself.

However Google adsense bot not only stupid, but also not educated.

It seems that adsense bot either don't understand the word combinations at all or has poor dictionary for the specific domains.

I wonder why Google has not implemented the word combination recognition for the adsence. It seems pretty easy.

Vadim

[eeek]

Now almost all my adds are about the geometry

Get any subtracts? ;)

[Vadim]

I cannot subtract because, "widget circle" is the idiom in its domain. I tried to use Google_ad_section (with ignore and without it) for other sentences that could be interpreted Google bot as about geometry, tried several weeks. No way.

Also my site is really made for users. It is not MFA. Sometimes I cannot sacrifice the user experience just to be more understandable by Google bot.

Google_ad_section with ignore seems for my case but as was mentioned in this forum "ignore" seems does not work at all.

Vadim

[Vadim]

Oops! It is of course pure coincidence but I just have noticed that my "widget circle" page began to show the ads about widgets and not geometry. Only few hours ago it showed geometry ads.

What I actually did, several days ago, I deleted (following the advice in this forum) all Google_ad_section with ignore and began to use only Google_ad_section without ignore. It seems really helps.

However in the page with "philosophical" ads nothing has changed. But now I at least have the hope that Google will figure out in time what ads are appropriate.

Vadim.