Good adsene targeting

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Good adsene targeting

has anyone added the code to their meta tags?

youfoundjake

3:45 pm on May 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

What about adding the code to the meta tags like this so that ads are displayed only on the keywords of the page, and not worry about the content so much?

Does anyone know if this works or if it doesn't work, and why or why not?
Thanks

youfoundjake

9:19 pm on May 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

Anyone have any ideas on this?

vurdlak

10:45 pm on May 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

yeah I was also thinking about this one, is it allowed? would save me a lot of time, since I'm running a blog which everytime I post new entry messes my ads...

what you other guys think?

Khensu

10:54 pm on May 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

mmmmm...

Yeah, that is a good one. I like to know the answer to that myself.

I have download pages (no copy) and the ads run totally off the keywords. I wonder if that would help?

Where is that ASA gal?

youfoundjake

5:24 pm on May 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

I just sent an email to Adsense support on if it would violate the TOS, once I get a response, I will let others know, but I think its a good idea to get the ads targeted to that particular page.

hunderdown

5:41 pm on May 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

AdSense specifies that this be used within the <body> </body> section of the page.

I could certainly argue that it would break the TOS to use the targeting code in the header, and in any case I doubt that it would work. If it did, people could use this as a way of getting ads unrelated to the content of the page....

UserFriendly

6:10 pm on May 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

I use the weight=ignore block in my head element.

The title of some pages is "photograph of . . ." and this causes only ads for photo printing, which is completely irrelevant to what the page is about.

So I use the ignore block to stop AdSense seeing the title element and getting all excited about the wrong keyword. Even if that means that means the page displays lower-CPC ads. No one is going to click a link about photo-printing on a page about a narrowboat holiday.

I think Google would be mad to complain about me making the ads that appear more relevant to the page context.

hunderdown

6:39 pm on May 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hmm. Good point. I think your use is a little different, though since it isn't what Google says to use the code for, if I were you I would have asked Google first.

Well, we'll wait to see if the OP hears back from Google on this.

eeek

10:57 pm on May 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

Using ignore has had a very positive effect on some of my pages. Too bad I can't get Google to ignore words in some of my URLs.

youfoundjake

1:53 am on May 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

just got the email back from adsense support, it is against the TOS,darn, something about stuffing the page with repititve keywords.
Oh well, it would have been nice.

fi5hbone

2:49 am on May 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

I got a feeling that adsense ads put more weight on url titles more than anything else. A descriptive url will allow targetted ads almost instantly. Any other urls will have to wait quite a bit before adsense bot starts delivering targetted ads. IMO that is.