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I should start a termite advice site if there are so many termite advertisers out there ...
When I realized what was happening, I deleted the post, but they're still appearing.
Its been two weeks ... I'm patient, but this is killing me. Any suggestions?
Try changing the ad layout on your site (and view your site) to force the MediaBot to revisit (each affected page). Then it should note the lack of termite relevance.
You could then put the ads back the way they were.
Rgds
Damon
But I know what you feel. I have a site about games in flash (i posted on a different thread how i managed to cope with the no-flash-reading policy) and right now the ads are perfectly relevant. But I'm setting up a php comments engine displayed on every page of a game and the main site. And I'm pretty worried that if someone mentions trouble in the down areas I won't get rid of hemoroid ads to the rest of the site's life. But I'm risking it.
But yes this is a big problem. The site that promotes AdSense, includes a text about how perfectly the system detects what ads will be relevant (the thing with java caffee or something) well pardon my french but that's bulls**t. It took just 3 sentences of "I love <something>" To display a massive amout of lubricant ads, and that's not only not relevant but also quite disturbing.
I think that besides the competitors-filter there aslo should be a keyword-filter. That wouldn't be much against any policy, and I think if a publisher doesn't have a choice what kind of ads should be displayed on his site, he should at least have the right to choose what ads should NOT be displayed.
Like I recently said, I think the engeine of the spiders is changing, because I'm positive they search thru' comments and many peaople disagree with me, but do you think that "tricks" like tampering with leathal keywords like ter<I></I>mite ter<!-- -->mite might help?
Their answer was just basically, "too bad," no keyword filter, you'll have to do it by URLs ... so I sat refreshing for an hour, trying to get all the dove hunting URLs ....
So I guess The only drastic thing you can do besides the competitor-filter is to make your own automated-bot which would somehow tamper with the keywords. For example try displaying everything thats in risk of becoming a keyword with s p a c e s which could only work on fonts with small spaces (you think that would work?) or do something reeeeaaaaly drastic like turn every thing thats risky int0 part1y 1eet w0rds 4nd 5entences. But that's just desperat X].
AdSense works best when it's related to the site or page it's on. Despite whatever algorithms they have developed, AdSense ads are, at least on my sites, appallingly way off-base.
For example, I utilize the description and keywords meta-tags to match the content of the page. I have a site that has nothing whatsoever to do with mice or small animal cages. Nothing. Not even remotely related.
I have a page which does not mention mice, and has nothing to do with mice, or mice cages, or medical research, or kids keeping pets or anything along those lines. Yet, AdSense is displaying ads for mice cages and small animal cages.
The page has about 3,500 words of content, nothing to do with mice. There are many other things that have a greater keyword density that you would think AdSense would latch on to.
No, it displays ads for mice cages.
The only thing I can find even remotely related to mice is a mention of "Disney" in the writer's bio, and he wrote for a pet magazine (with "pet" in the title and not mice or any other more specific keyword).
