Blocking other ads from adsense bot?

[l008comm]

I have some hard coded text ads on my web site. And the problem I'm having is that very often, google ads seems to draw on the content of these links when its picking the ads to show, rather than drawing off of the real content on my site. So what I'm thinking is, what's the best way to block said content? I know I can do it pretty easily if I knew the adsense bot's user agent. I could just not display the ads to that user. Ideally google would have some built in way you could flag portions of your page from being considered content without going to this level. And I also fear that if I use the php/user agent appraoch, that one day a camoflauge googel bot might come along, and see that I'm sending "special" content to teh adsense bot, and penalize me somehow. ACK!

Thoughts?

[jatar_k]

it is cloaking and it is frowned upon by all engines, that doesn't mean no one does it but don't get caught. You will find yourself banned from more thn just AdSense I would imagine.

cloaking is a lot of work but does work. You need to keep in mind the consequences if you decide to take this approach.

[Tearabite]

cant you just wrap those ads with a the target-sectioning "weigh=ignore" (i dont remember the full syntax) to make the Media bot discount/ignore them?

[l008comm]

I can see how you could definitely use this technique to make google focus on terms that pay better, but I'm just trying to make google focus on terms that are part of the site and not ads. I don't think it would be violating the "spirit" of the rules.

[l008comm]

[google.com...]

I emailed google and asked them what I should do, and they gave me that link which is what tearabite was saying. So I used those tags to tell google to ignore my hard coded ads, and to target my internal site menu which includes descriptions of each page's function. Hopefully with this, I'll be able to get some better ads and up that eCPM of mine.