Removing the "blog" from blog software

making your ads more relevant

[mparaz]

My tech site is running the WordPress blog software. It was showing mostly just "blogging" ads. To fix it, I edited the template to take out anything about "blogs" and "RSS".

Now it's showing relevant stuff. :)

Just wanted to share since I see blogs with AdSense who show ads for blogging.

[icedowl]

Hi all! New here, but have been learning lots from this forum.

I have a Movable Type blog added to one of my websites that displays Google Adsense. If I view it without the "www." it shows blog type ads. If I view it with the "www." it shows ads relevant to the posts that I've made to it which are also relevant to the website. I'm puzzled why the difference, but it appears that Google shows preference for using the "www." as part of the address.

[richmondsteve]

icedowl, Google considers those 2 separate pages. If one shows ads that are poorly targeted they're probably targeted to the theme of your site. After Mediapartners visits and analyses the page content they should be on-target. In any case, consider implementing a 301 redirect for domain.tld to point to www.domain.tld so they're not considered separate pages. Lots of benefits, little downside.

[icedowl]

Thanks. Now to go figure out how to do a redirect. Ah, I love learning new stuff! :)

[jonknee]

RSS has no effect. It's used on a lot of non-blogs (Yahoo! ring a bell?). But obviously if you take out, "Joe's Blog" you won't get blog keyword ads.

[mparaz]

I replaced "RSS" with "R*S*S" because I didn't want thos ads about "fresh newsfeeds," "newsreaders" and stuff that's hardly relevant to my content.

[zhenghua]

Maybe I'm too forward, how about remove all rss links of every blog pages? Does it hurt my blog?

[icedowl]

Removing the links to the RSS feeds probably won't hurt anything and you should still be able to generate those files (xml and/or rdf). Someone who likes to use software (such as amphetadesk) to read your blog will just have a harder time getting it added in the software's list. No biggie, they can just actually go visit your site to read it.

[mparaz]

Good blog software should have the RSS and other feeds listed in the "alternate" sections of the header.

[icedowl]

I use Movable Type which does have the URL's for the RSS feeds inside the source for the page, however not everyone thinks to view the page source to see that information. I do have one link to the .rdf version that appears low on the page and it hasn't caused any interference with AdSense grabbing ads targeted at what I've written in the blog.