I can't shrug off irrelevant ads

AdSense fixated on wrong terms

[UserFriendly]

I've just added a page to my site about a certain class of product. My page is about why it's better to ignore product A in favour of product B.

I carefully used section targeting with weight=ignore around the chunks of the page that contain any mention of product A, and I used the positive form of section targeting to emphasize references to product B.

But my original version of the page was rather heavier in density for keywords surrounding product A, so AdSense is now saturating the page with ads for product A.

I've rebalanced the density of keywords so that product B is the most-mentioned, but AdSense is still awash with nothing but ads for product A. (In fact, the percentage of ads for product A has gone from about fifty percent to ninety percent.)

I'm a bit miffed that AdSense is ignoring the section targeting, and I'm not sure what to do to banish all ads for product A. (I can't remove all mention of product A from the page, because that would hurt the article.)

Do I need to take any further action, or will waiting for the keyword density changes to be acknowledged be the best course of action?

[Quadrille]

It sounds like you are doing all you can, from your report.

A couple of questions, though:

Roughly how big is your article?

Could it be that there fewer advertisers for product B? (Are other sites having similar issues?)

[ken_b]

I've just added

When?

[fredw]

I second what ken_b asked.

In my experience, after your targeting gets off base because of undesired keywords in a page, it can take days, even weeks, for the bot to come back and targeting to get back to where you'd like to see it.

I've learned now to head these things off at the pass before the adsense bot even gets a chance to see keywords that get my pages off target.

[john5000]

could it be that advertisers for product A are targeting keywords for product B?

[Eazygoin]

If you read AS info on section targeting, it tells you it can take up to 2 weeks for it to take effect.

[UserFriendly]

Looks like this is common, then. A waiting game. That's fine, so long as I've done all I can.

As for advertisers for product A targeting product B keywords, interesting point. I don't think that's what is happening here, but it's something worth bearing in mind.