Web Pages are about Linux - Adsense Ads Promote Hair Transplants

[eeek]

Now I'm getting hair transplant ads.

[moTi]

huge market.. not your target audience?

[eeek]

not your target audience?

Not even close.

[Andreals]

It sounds like it may be a high-paying click and if your demographic skews older and male it's not silly at all.

[eeek]

The pages are about Linux. Looks quite silly to me.

[truezeta]

I understand your frustration. I've seen ads about voodoo on my website for christian women. All we can do is filter them out.

[BigDave]

Have you ever been to any sort of linux gathering? There are quite a few extremely high foreheads. Doesn't seem quite so out of line to me.

Have you ever seen Alan Cox? He's got lots of hair, just none on the top of his head.

[piatkow]

I had a lot of those ads for a few weeks, alternating with botox and similar treatments. Totally off topic and when I checked the other day the page in question was back to on-topic ads.

I wouldn't have minded so much if a decent number of people had actually clicked. The figures for that channel suggest that they were paying more per click than the "good" ads I am getting now.

[Webwork]

Geeksploitation.

I recall reading ads about bodybuilding supplements and weight training in a scouting magazine.

Anyone ever notice the "male enhancement" ads and "how to attract women" ads in the back of certain "science for the masses" magazines?

Despite their higher IQs Geeks still want what the rest of maledom wants.

A personal teleporter.

[Pengi]

Any good suggestions as to how to get Hair Transplant Ads on pages about Hair Transplants!
Anyone good any good Linux content I can use?
;-)

[Andreals]

The ads aren't necessarily supposed to mirror the site's content exactly, just appeal to the likely visitors. I don't think hair plugs and linux are that far removed. If you can't see that you just don't understand their targeting strategy.

Certainly they do make mistakes but I don't think this is one.

[CatLady]

Along the same line, I keep getting ads for toilets in my articles directory site! I wonder if someone is trying to tell me something..... :)

[Andreals]

People who read articles online all use toilets, a safe bet. That's good targeting.

[martinibuster]

>>>That's good targeting.

If you run a site on knives, and people there are researching the best knife to purchase for use in the kitchen, you will not get conversions for toilets because the user doesn't need a new toilet. They need a knife.

[edited by: martinibuster at 9:40 am (utc) on Sep. 7, 2006]

[frox]

I think it's because of associative keywords:

linux - root - hair root - hair transplant

!

[Andreals]

If you run a site on knives, and people there are researching the best knife to purchase for use in the kitchen, you will not get conversions for toilets because the user doesn't need a new toilet. They need a knife.

I suppose I should label my sarcasm.

Ordinary people seldom buy toilets ever in spite of the fact that they use them >daily. Even when ordinary people do buy toilets it is usually as a part of a larger purchase, like a building.

Contractors buy toilets.

If on the other hand the advertisement were for "used toilets" or "antique toilets" the market is quite huge, albeit illegal and therefore against AdSense TOS.

[koan]

I think it's because of associative keywords:

linux - root - hair root - hair transplant

Could very well be. I saw ads about hair extensions on a page about Firefox Extensions. Or Norton Ghost on a page about ghost hauntings. It's not always terribly bright.