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It seems that if you wanted to test your content before you put it on your website, you could send yourself email with your new content to see if the ads displayed are what you want on your site. If the ads match your expectations, your content is done. If they don't, then you can rework your content to get the ads you to show.
Am I missing a component of AdSense, or will this be a potential option?
Here's a couple of thoughts about this.
1: On pages, it seems that the keywords need to be as close to the adsense code as posibble in the page source code, to be really effective.
That's going to be difficult in email.
2: Adsense sometimes has a propensity to latch onto a single word or phrase on the page and use it to determine ad selection, EVEN IF it's on a casual use of the word/phrase and not the main page keyword or topic.
That could mess up your ideas effectiveness if it happens in the email.
3: Does anyone know how many ads will appear in the emails?
You can display up to 5 ads on a page, so if gmail only has one, you could be in for a surprise when you post the gmail content on a page.
4: I think another option might be to create the page but only use an obscure link to it fom some even more obscure page on your site to see what kind of ads the actual page will show.
If you don't like the ads, change the page content around till you get what you want. Once the ads look ok, then put the proper links in place for the page.
On an established adsense site, I wouldn't think this needs to be done usually. Unless it was a new section with a different class of content. For instanc, if I were to add a website design section to my classic car site, I might want to see the results before making the page public.
5: Once you have adsense running on the site you get a good idea of what to expect pretty quickly, so not a lot of major experimentation is needed. Tweaking goes on a while sometimes though.
