Relevant ads on picture site?

is it possible?

[Cakkie]

I've recently launched a picture rate site.
Since there's very little text content on each page, the ads that are showing are of very little relevance.

The url is an abbriviation of what it shown on the pictures, so it won't link the url to a keyword (eg if I was showing widgets, the url would be wdgpics.com).

Is there a way I can get adsense to show widget related ads? In the adsense TOS it says that excessive or repetitive use of keywords in the code is forbidden if the keywords are irrelevant to the content of the page. Since i am showing widget pics, I'm not violating the TOS by including widget related keyword in the source, right?

If so, what would be the best way to do so? I've already placed keywords in de META tags, but they appear to be ignored. Anyone got suggestions?

[milanmk]

1) Meta tags (you already done that)
2) Downloading message while picture is downloading
3) Download completion message
4) Picture description

These are some small lines of content which might help getting targeted ads. There is nothing much you can add to picture only page.

Milan

[chingchang]

I am interested in this as well.

[Khensu]

I don't have much text either on my pages (downloads), just the index page. I have found that if I choose 4 keywords put them in the keywords area, meta tags for the keywords and description. I can influence 4 links in a link unit and 4 ads. You can move to a 5 pattern also. I mean it wont be right on but pretty good. If there is more it tends to confuse the "algo brain" and you start getting random ads.

[Cakkie]

I decided to contact google, and they told me that the ads are based on the content of the entire page, not by keywords or categories. Basically they told me in order to get relevant ads on the page, I would have to add relevant content to the page...

Anyway, I'm going to experiment a bit with stuff like titles, ALT attributes and stuff to see if I can get it at least a bit more relevant. If I happen to find the pot of gold, I'll keep you informed :)

[Mohamed]

Allow users to add comments to the pictures.

[milanmk]

Allow users to add comments to the pictures.

Great idea.

Milan

[blairsp]

does it not depend on what the comment is. For example how would "great picture" help targetting?

[owillis]

Simply describe the photo. I've used this and it works. "This is a picture of widgets in Spain"....

[mattg3]

Works fine with us with correctly named pics and directories.

http://example.com/bluewidgetdir/azzurowidget.jpg

<A HREF="azzurowidget.jpg"><img src="thumbnailazzurowidget.jpg"></a>

That kinda idea.

[Cakkie]

I'm currently getting quite good results with adding keywords to the url. I can't find anything in the TOS that says it isn't allowed (and since those are relevant keywords I don't see the problem).

<form action=vote.php method=post>
...

I now do
<form action=vote.php?title=keyword1+keyword2+keyword3 method=post>
...

The result is that it's now showing ads related to the keywords specified in the url :)

Now let's just wait and see if I see a change of CTR (previously it was somewhere around 0.00% :p )