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I think a certain ad is performing well

Can I prioritize it?

         

johnnie

9:35 pm on Jan 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I think one certain ad is performing pretty well on my site. It is highly relevant and has good texts. Is there a way to prioritize this ad? My site revolves around a topic in which this ad is always relevant, but most articles (and the front page) just don't show it.

farmboy

10:25 pm on Jan 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I think one certain ad is performing pretty well on my site. It is highly relevant and has good texts. Is there a way to prioritize this ad? My site revolves around a topic in which this ad is always relevant, but most articles (and the front page) just don't show it.

I've had a similar situation for several years. I even set up a page with content just for the purpose (hoping) of getting this ad to appear on that page. The ad shows there sometimes but not always.

There are things that are out of your control as a publisher, such as Google's thoughts on which ads should appear where, and then there are the actions of the advertiser which are out of your control.

I finally decided it wasn't worth chasing a rainbow and I instead focus my time on other things.

That's recently become my larger perspective about AdSense also.

FarmBoy

jomaxx

11:47 pm on Jan 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I guess you could look at the specific pages where the ad is showing, and try to try to reverse engineer what phrase(s) the advertiser is targeting.

Also, there's a way to flag text as "more important" and "less important" to the AdSense spider. This might be useful in targeting ads to your content. Look up "section targeting".

leadegroot

1:49 am on Jan 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Well, you've got the long answer above.
The short answer is 'nope!'
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