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This should be very helpfull on pages that cover several topics, like a home page might.
Haven't tried this yet because I just spotted the notice while checking my stats. Sounds interesting though.
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Could this be true:
If you emphasize a part, it will get weight 1.0
If you don't select a part, it will get weight 0.5
If you select to ignore a part, it will get weight 0.0
I don't want to ignore my menu, because sometimes there won't be enough content only from the article. (a small definition-page or something)
How quick were your results? I have over 10.000 content-pages and just added this new function.
However, please be aware that we can't guarantee results, and that it may take up to 2 weeks before our crawlers take into account any changes you've made to your site.
A word of caution: Don't add these emphasize/downplay hints and expect immediate results. You might see immediate results for brand new pages, but for existing pages you might be in for a long wait.
For every one of my pages across two sites, I track the date of last visit by the Google mediabot. Despite what Google says, I see plenty of pages, the majority even, where the date of the last mediabot visit was one or two months ago, or even longer, not the promised two weeks.
So, I am taking it on faith that the new hints system will work as promised. On pages where I have added the hints, I am seeing no evidence of this triggering mediabot visits for those pages. Not that I expected any. (Note that I will not play games like altering the ad types, or temporarily removing ads, then restoring them again after a day or two, in an attempt to induce a mediabot visit. I have worked hard to optimize my ad configurations and will leave well enough alone.)
I have implimented it in my articles sections and noticed immediate enhancement in the relavance of my ads (they were pretty well targeted before - and now they are SPOT ON)
Looks like I have some editing to do... can't wait to see the end result as far as CTR goes.
Proper pages should have proper titles and headings which describe the content of the page. Has anyone tried putting these AdSense tags just around page titles and headings?
I'm happy and sad at the same time. By the time I figure out how to use this new feature, the spammers and scrapers will already have it installed in a billion pages.
I may be overoptimistic on this, and I'm just gut/brain speculating, but I'm betting that they have set up this system so it will reduce spamming/scrapers.
I'll bet that verbal scraps, repetitive keywords in the selected text, stuff like that isn't going to work. The wording of their section targeting page suggests to me (and this is nothing new), that real sentences, paragraphs, etc are more important than single words. In other words, either adsense bot is currently parsing much more than one or two words, but is using much larger clusters, OR, it's going to be getting more sophisticated.
I have no idea how sophisticated, but it's certainly possible to analyse text structure for proper sentence syntax -- so autogenerated text on certain topics would be very hard to create in bulk. You could also do basic semantic based checks.
This should prove to be a great way to iscolate the tip for better relevancy. But, I have a question...What is a good guideline for the amount of words that should be held within these ad tags to avoid PSA's? Some of my tips are not very content heavy. Some of the shorter tips may be as few as 125 words.
Thank you!
