cloaking mediapartners robot

getting more targetted ads?

[winglian]

Has anyone tried cloaking the content passed to the mediapartners robot in order to get more targeted ads? I know this could be used/abused to get nonrelated higher EPC ads, but has anyone tried this to get bet targeted ads that are more on topic to the actual page content?

Thanks

[homeblock]

I'm sure it would be easy to do.

[winglian]

My other concern is, it doing something like this against the TOS? Sure google frowns upon cloaking when it comes to SEO, but as we saw lately, even they use cloaking techniques. But as far as AdSense goes, what are the rules?

Thanks

[budapesttips]

From the TOS (https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms):

5. Prohibited Uses. (...) (iv) redirect an end user away from any Advertiser Page or Search Results Page, provide a version of the Advertiser Page or Search Results Page that is different from the page an end user would access by going directly to the Advertiser Page or the applicable Search Results Page

According to the above, I'm quite sure that any kind of cloaking is against the TOS.

[vabtz]

I cloak

I present the bot with the page that I give cellphone users.

its just a lighter page with the real content making up more to the total page ( in file size terms ) than a regular user would see from his PC

[vabtz]

however by doing that I don't think my targeting has improved at all

[budapesttips]

So maybe you should consider stopping it? :)

[vabtz]

why? its the page for cellphone users and its smaller for the search engines.

there is nothing wrong with cloaking