Adsense ads Completely untargeted

but only on one page...

[WebPixie]

I have a weird problem. I have a new site I set up about a week ago. The URL has a food name in it, but other than that the site is NOT about food in any way.

I set up our site, and at first google just showed recipe and food ads on it. After a day or two the correct ads started showing up, but on one page, the top ad block, is still showing food and receipe ads. The weird thing is the bottom ad block on that page is showing correctly targeted ads.

Does anyone know what's going on? Obviously google can see what the page is about since the bottom ad block targets correctly. And the fact that the word receipe or food does not show on the page at all should tell google something.

Any ideas how to fix this? Do I need to contact adsense? I've already done the "wait and it will fix it's self" thing, but it doesn't seem to be working.

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.
WP

[Pengi]

Have you checked the keywords and description in your metatags. It's possible that, if you copied one page as a start for the sencond page, that you didn't change the metatags.

I could be that there are not enough relevant advertises specific to the page to fill 2 adblocks, so Google adds "site relevent" ads. You could try removing the 2nd adblock: hopefully the first block would then pick up the more relevant ads.

Another possibility to try, is to add negative keywords to the metatags for the page in order to discourage the theme the "wrong ads" are showing.

[WebPixie]

Thanks for the reply.

No, I make sure all my meta data per page is very specific, so it is targeted well on that page as well as the rest. I didn't copy the page from another, so there would be no left over keywords from the last page, and still there would be no food related keywords there if I did. The site is just not related to food at all. We don't even say anything like "cooking up a real good time" or "let's mix it up" anywhere on the page -lol-

Google is just way off on this and there is no reason for it. Also, the ads in this market are plentiful. There would be no reason for google to fill in the blanks with url name specific ads :P And considering all the other pages are right on target with both ad blocks it shouldn't be trouble for google to get it right.

I'm stumped :(

BTW- What is negative keywords in the meta? Something like "not food"? :P

[edited by: WebPixie at 7:57 pm (utc) on Dec. 21, 2006]

[Pengi]

negative keywords in the meta would be say, -food, -whatever_theme_you_want_to_discourage.

Sorry I couldn't help.

Occasionally I've come across one of these stubborn pages. Another possibility is to recreate the page from scratch with a new address. This works sometimes.

[Arctrust]

You can try Adsense "Section Targeting"

I am having the same problem on a new site. Every page is dead on target except for the home page.

ARC