adsense on a search engine

[sebans]

I added adsense on my meta search engine and
Almost all ads are untargeted.

Now I wondering if to get targeted ads I have to wait the mediabot visit after every query?

if it is so, being a small site, it will take an year to get targeted ads. Any idea on how to get them faster?

thanks in advance

sebans

[jomaxx]

Did you read in the program policies where you can't put AdSense ads on search results pages?

Google are apparently making exceptions to this rule in some circumstances if you ask permission, but in your case it sounds like AdSense would seldom be able to deliver targeted ads.

[jomaxx]

[I just looked in another thread and saw that you did ask for and receive permission.]

In that case, I would suggest making sure your queries are standardized as much as possible, i.e.:
- use Javascript (onSubmit) to make sure the URL parameters are always in the same order - browsers do not all do this the same way by default
- use Javascript to change all search terms to lowercase before submitting the form
- eliminate any session id's and unnecessary parameters in the search URL's

You could also try executing the most common searches, if you can identify some, so that Mediabot has a chance to spider them and put them on file. Hopefully your site has SOME kind of niche or theme so that this will be possible.

[jomaxx]

P.S. Also, depending on how the search field is interpreted, remove or standardize things like single quotes, double quotes, hyphens, periods, spaces at the beginning or end of a search string, multiple spaces between search terms, etc. I constantly see these sorts of things in my logs.

[sebans]

jomaxx

I got permission and i'm keeping the email adsense sent me autorizing to put the code on the site.

thanks for your suggestion but seems there is not much I can do since I didn't write the code.

The mediaboot is visiting the site. I got this example from my cpanel "last visits" stats.

64.68.87.69 Url: /x.php?qry_str=anime&extra_qry=&per_page=10 Http Code : 200
Date: Jan 26 13:05:54 Http Version: HTTP/1.0" Size in Bytes: 21497
Referer: - Agent: Mediapartners-Google/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

sebans

[jomaxx]

Most of the things I suggested don't require you to change the underlying search code, but you would have to know how to write the necessary Javascript code and integrate it into the search form.

Anyway these suggestions assume that AdSense will treat search results like any other page, and have to spider them once before serving ads. But since Google are just now starting to deal with search results pages, they may get better at delivering ads based solely on the URL.