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Is there anything I can do to change the genra of ads placed on my site?
Welcome to the fun of AdSense. Getting google to supply you with appropriate adverts is a task within itself.
Some very quick tips
1. Name the pages appropriately; don't name the page "page1.html", rather, name it "a-page-about-blue-widgets.html"
2. Focus on your first and last paragraphs of text to be quite specific about the content of the page, google seems to have a stronger weighting on these items.
3. Link to the pages with relevant titles on the links. ie, from other pages on your site, ensure that the A href link text is descriptive.
4. Get your pages verified by Google (search these forums for 'google verification')
...and Experiment :D
Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you'd like us to emphasize or downplay when matching ads to your site's content. By providing us with your suggestions, you can assist us in improving your ad targeting. We recommend that only those familiar with HTML attempt to implement section targeting.
To implement section targeting, you'll need to add a set of special HTML comment tags to your code. These tags will mark the beginning and end of whichever section(s) you'd like to emphasize or de-emphasize for ad targeting.
The HTML tags to emphasize a page section take the following format:
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
You can also designate sections you'd like to have ignored by adding a (weight=ignore) to the starting tag:
<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
With these tags added to your HTML code, your final code may look like the following:
<html><head><title>Section targeting</title></head>
<body>
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
This is the text of your web page. Most of your content resides here.
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
</body>
</html>
You can use section targeting to make suggestions about as many sections of a page as you like. However, please be aware that we can't guarantee results, and that it may take up to 2 weeks before our crawlers take into account any changes you've made to your site.
In order to properly implement this feature, you'll need to include a significant amount of content within the section targeting tags. Including insufficient content may result in less relevant ads or PSAs. In addition, please keep in mind that this feature should only be used to emphasize significant sections of your site's relevant content. It is against our program policies to manipulate the ad targeting to result in ads that are not relevant to the content of your pages.
A personal site and blog may not be the best fit for advertisers and it may be hard for Google to match ads to the user mindset context of the website instead of the keyword contextual clues it currently uses.
Does your blog end up displaying posts on unrelated topics on the same page? That can make it harder for Google to figure out what the page is about.
Yes it does. The first bit os aboult my swing set delima. Which is were it's getting all the swingset stuff from. Then I have a thing aboult the baby birds that hatched in my grill and the latest is aboult planting seeds with my son. I think I might keep a running log as to how the birds and seeds do. You would think with as popular as blogs are that google would have a special way to deliver right adds to them based on bloggers mindset and not context.
I still have absolutely no idea what your site is about from your description. Consider this is how Google sees your site according to your last post:
swing set...swingset stuff...baby birds...grill...planting seeds...son...running log...birds...seeds
What on earth is all that about?
based on bloggers mindset and not context.
Wrong! Google does not read a poster's miindset, it reads the information posted.
Try writing corrrectly about your product/subject and remember that many words have more than one meaning, not just the derivation you have in mind.
I still have absolutely no idea what your site is about from your description. Consider this is how Google sees your site according to your last post:
I thought we wern't supose to get to detailed on WWW posts.
And truthfully I guess I don't realy have a clearly defined theme for the site. It started out as one thing but now it's just become something where I can write aboult the activities we do in the backyard.
I'm hopeing it is a place filler for a project I am working on and hoping to launch this fall.
But I figured while it was there I could learn aboult Ad Sense and maybe make a few bucks.
I thought we wern't supose to get to detailed on WWW posts.
There's no dropping of your URL however if you wish to disclose your site theme and discuss it, that's your decision.
And truthfully I guess I don't realy have a clearly defined theme for the site.
If you don't know then Google doesn't stand a chance:-)
I realy don't like some of the ads that pop up.... like the ones that promote free stuff but then try selling you service stuff for movie theaters and resuraunts and vactions ect.
They just realy bug me. With other ad servers they are the big flashy ads "Click on Jessica Simpson's boobs to Win an IPod" "Details apply"
Granted Googles are more tastful but I still don't like them.
What is the easiest way to stop them. I read something in the google help that said something like alt click on the ad to block it but that didn't work then I couldn't find that help page agin to see what I misread.
