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Gallery shows psa's in weird ways.

         

Powdork

11:55 pm on Feb 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I have an image gallery to which I have recently uploaded several hundred pages. It seems as though there are an unhealthy amount of psa's running. I'm having a hard time figuring out why some pages get psa's and others get highly targeted ads. For instance, in one gallery on a hike and ski to a relatively obscure peak the psa's will show up on every other page, with highly targeted ads in between. I could understand if there was some sort of pattern to define, but it doesn't appear to be related to the page. Pages which only contain the name of an obscure peak may get a relevant ad while pages with captions that include 'skiing' or 'powder' end up with a PSA. Additionally, the same page will get an ad one time, and a psa five minutes later. Each page consists of a large image, a 10-40 word caption, breadcrumbs, title, and two 120X60 affiliate ads sandwiching a 468X60 adsense unit. Some questions.
1. Will entering relevant meta data decrease the amount of psa's shown?
2. These are all relatively new, will the amount of psa's shown decrease over time?
3. Is the amount of psa's shown srictly a function of adwords inventory since they already seem to know what the site is about?

I tried to ad a linkshare affiliate code to the alternate url. I just ended up with blank space even where they would have had an ad.

superpower

12:10 am on Feb 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Same problem, just noticed it today though.

I think it's an adsense inventory issue. Could be end of month-related too. My clicks dropped alot at the end of last month.

Powdork

12:22 am on Feb 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



The reason I think its mainly adventory is that the psa's are much more prevalent at night. Still interested in anything I can do to reduce it though. I could add more content, but the images are really the content and I would only be adding it for SE's:(

superpower

12:29 am on Feb 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

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My ctr is much lower on my image gallery pages anyway and brings down my overall CTR. Usually you get a bunch of stock photo sites which pay about almost nothing.