A newcomer with two questions

[conus]

Hi,

I am new to Adsense (I haven't even signed up yet) and have a couple of basic questions.

The purpose of my site, <SNIP>, is to provide tutorials, product reviews and other guides for amateur astronomers and astrophotographers. It also includes historical information on telescopes, optical engineering, etc.

I have two questions:

1: What happens as I add new content? Will the ads Google supplies me with reflect the changes I make to the site?

2: If I add another section in a distinctly different area of astronomy, will I be given new ads relative to the new information?

Thanks. Any help is much appreciated. As I said, I don't really know what I'm doing here.

[edited by: martinibuster at 3:40 pm (utc) on Sep. 9, 2006]
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[creepychris]

Hi Conus,
Welcome to Webmasterworld.

What happens as I add new content? Will the ads Google supplies me with reflect the changes I make to the site? If I add another section in a distinctly different area of astronomy, will I be given new ads relative to the new information?

Yes, hopefully that is the case. For every review you do, Google should provide ads about that review. With luck, Google will match the telescope that you are reviewing. But when Google doesn't have an ad, they will give you themed ads for your site. So some times you might get more general astronomy ads.

Btw, you might want to remove your URL. It's against the TOS here to post them.

[Jean]

What happens as I add new content? Will the ads Google supplies me with reflect the changes I make to the site? If I add another section in a distinctly different area of astronomy, will I be given new ads relative to the new information?

and the more content you have the better idea Google will get about what ads it can offer to specific pages containing specific articles.

I guess that the more general articles might be better to pull more ads than the "heavy stuff" but you can check the pages performances by judiciously using channels (we are only given 200 , no matter how much we beg for more so you have to make do with 200....so chose them WELL).

Do this for a while and you'll get a pretty good idea how the whole thing works and with a bit of luck and a lot of visitors you could earn a good living.....or maybe only peanuts. Good luck

[UserFriendly]

My site is a giant hotchpotch of random crap, with each directory being a completely different topic and theme, and some directories containing a mixture of topics. Google's system still manages to find relevant ads when they exist.

The problem occurs when you have a page about a topic so obscure that there are very few advertisers for any of the keywords on the page. Then the quality of ads goes right down the toilet.

[edited by: UserFriendly at 10:14 pm (utc) on Sep. 9, 2006]

[Car_Guy]

But the reverse can be true, too, in the sense that a "hot" topic can become cluttered with ads leading to pages that were put together by people who are just trying to cash in.