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JAG
where all we usually get is
- weather measurement instruments
- (some) hotels
Then again, the rates go up and down all the time.
I posted a new article, and the ads came up immediately for posters. The topic of the page is not posters. No page on my site mentions posters. Heck I don't even like posters.
Well, in a few minutes, the bot came as expected, and I got a much more on-topic ad. But this is a new wrinkle for me, seeing posters (which I know are a popular affiliate niche) instead of reasonably on-topic defaults before the bot arrives.
Any thoughts, Jenstar?
As an adwords user there are some ways in which you can target an AdSense site, specially if its a premium publisher.
Any confirmations of this?
That's been my experience, too.
The word poster appears on my site once in several tens of thousands of words.
Today, its boat ads - about the furthest possible ad choice from what my content is about, I don't think the word boat, or anything that could possibly be considered boating related, is anywhere on any of my many pages. If my site was about the Arctic, it would be the equivelant of showing swimsuit and suntan lotion ads.
These are all before the mediabot has come around. Once mediabot has arrived and targeted, I don't see these irrelevant ads on those pages again.
They are obviously working on an algorythm to reduce the number of PSAs (a big complaint of publishers and probably being done right now to prevent advertisers from leaving to a competitor).
But something with this algorythm has definitely run amuck. I am wondering if they have a pool of advertisers willing to have their ads shown on pages that could very well be completely irrelevant to the actual content. But you'd think that even something like this would be done on a theme or category level ("hmmm.. Jenstar's site has never ever had an ad with anything to do with boating before, so her site is out. efv on the otherhand has had cruise ads, so maybe his site would be good to show these ads on"). Otherwise, if I was one of those boating advertisers, I'd not be very happy right now.
I don't think these defaults, have anything with the site theme to do at all. And I have even seen different phases.
Brand new page shows off-topic defaults.
After the bot has been over it switches to fallback adds (or PSAs).
After a little more time the site specific (or when I'm lucky, page specific adds kicks in).
However, I watched a friend publish a new page on a smaller site with his own account, and he got PSAs for 15 minutes, replaced with page relevant ads.
Yeah, I know I can block the domains, but that's not the real issue. I signed up for AdSense believing in the high quality of the ads, and now that seems to be very much flapping in the breeze.
