Forum Moderators: martinibuster
Hi
OK so I thought that I was finally getting used to adsense. I have two other sites that have ads running and they are usually quite accurate in their relevancy.
However, my third site which is in development is a nightmare. The site is a plain english beginners guide to web hosting. Every page has a skyscraper that has some wonderful ads on, except the index page. For some reason, Google has decided to serve up ads for clarinet lessons, running and painting. I have read and tweaked my text several times, removing anything that had even a remote possibility of being picked up on. I have renamed images and altered their alt tags. It just makes not difference and its driving me crackers.
Any suggestions? I realise that with one post, this may seem like promotion, but it really is a cry for help. If you do get ads for hosting and the like, try refreshing and you will see what I mean.
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[edited by: Jenstar at 1:56 am (utc) on April 3, 2005]
[edit reason] No promotional URLs please, as per TOS [/edit]
Url's are prohibited:
[webmasterworld.com...]
Best I can tell, your TITLE and page content is a little weak/vague on the specific topic and Google locked up on words like BEGINNER and TUTORIAL and just served up whatever it felt like that matched. Your title starts with "so you want a" which are all garbage words when it come to the search engine. Start with a KEYWORD like "WIDGET CREATION FOR BEGINNERS" or "WIDGET CREATION TUTORIAL" and put something firmly in the body of your page with an <H1> that repeats the same.
Try searching Google for your topic like "WIDGET CREATION" and see what kind of titles float to the top, then look at how their page works and try to do something similar and it should fix the problem.
I think I'll work on the content a bit more. What is on there at the minute was just temporary anyway and badly needed editing. I just thought it was odd that the ads were completely irrelevant as opposed to just having a tedious link to the content.
Sorry about the URL by the way Jen. It wont happen again!
Gary
It was 100% off target, it would be easier just to remove AdSense from the page :)
AdSense Preview showed nothing relevant whatsoever, so banning wouldn't work except to eliminate all ads.
My experience -
after changing text on the page it takes 1 week
BEFORE you will see changes in Ads.
To be properly targeted -
add keyword metatag,
Description and carefully remove
keyword which causes your ads right now.
Good luck and remember to wait 1 week.
Banning certain urls indicates a 'topic' of unrelated or unwanted. Banning urls is topic sensitive, so the same topic from other like urls will be disallowed?
