Stop Word, how to fix?

[icedowl]

I think I've run into a stop word that I cannot honestly change to anything else. Of all things, it has to do with food. Healthy food at that! The one page just won't display anything but a PSA.

I've tried using the "ignore" version of section targetting to knock out this one word with no success.

I have vague recollections of having seen a method to break a word in pieces but have it display unbroken, but I don't know what to search for in order to find it again.

Anyone have the answer?

[greatstart]

Try creating an image of the word that matches the font of your content and put it in place of that word.

[icedowl]

Interesting thought, but I'd have to create several. Not the best plan.

Anyone else?

[iridiax]

Would this disable the unwanted keyword?

<span>k</span>eyword

[icedowl]

iridiax, I think that's the solution I was looking for. Trouble is, it didn't help. I'm thinking that I've got no choice now but to change the word much against my better judgment. Oh well.

[koan]

Rewriting texts because it offends adsense is such a "tail wagging the dog" situation. It's ridiculous. You say something like "I'm dying for a hotdog" or "They crashed the party" and your page lose its ads. Frustrating!

[icedowl]

Well, I changed the word but I also had to change the URL and 301 it to the new page. It was part of the page name in addition to being on the page. All is well now but I'm still irritated about it.

[ann]

You were right about the span tag...I use it myself.

Ann

[panos]

You can use Javascript

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
document.write('keyword')
</SCRIPT>

[icedowl]

Thanks everyone. All of this is good to know should it happen again. Unfortunately, the stop word I had encountered was part of the URL on top of other instances and there way no other way around it but to change the file name. ("stopword.html" --> "goodword.html")

[wishus]

icedowl, I don't think the Adsense Crawler looks at your page every time an ad is served. After it has determined what your page is about, it may not crawl it again for a couple weeks - meaning any tweaks you did will not be noticed immediately.

That's why you didn't see a change until you renamed the page, which, to Google, makes it a different page that it has to send the crawler back out to evaluate.