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My site is showing some great Google ads so, from my point of view, only the latter could be true.
[edited by: martinibuster at 9:31 pm (utc) on Oct. 29, 2008]
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1. You may have a sub-optimal niche.
2. Your site may have weak focus on products used to get from A to Z
3. That kind of site may attract advertisers after a demographic, not someone selling a specific product. So political ads, ads for movies, ads for overweight people can tend to show up.
4. Ads vary dramatically by geographic area. In general you can only be aware of only a small slice of what's being shown on your site.
I did the same on another site and PSA's took over. At least for a while.
I'd try blocking some of the worst offenders and see what happens. If better ads take their place, block more. If PSA's appear, ditch AdSense and try some CPA ads. If you're not making money from crummy ads, you have nothing to lose by experimenting.
I just went through all 38,000 pages of my site
I highly doubt that. Assuming best case scenario in which it only takes 4 seconds for you to navigate to a new url, page load, and observe the ad on that page...
38,000 * 4 seconds = 152000 seconds
152000 / 60 = 2533 minutes
2533 / 60 = 42.2 hours
So, assuming the best case scenario, you would have to do this for 42.2 hours straight to view all 38,000 of your pages.
I highly doubt that.
I spend around 9 hours a day looking at my websites / Ads etc.
I just went through all 38,000 pages of my site. The same old tired ads keep showing up...How I Lost My Belly Fat, etc. There is nothing exciting at all for people to click on. I have my own personal opinion of why there are no good ads on Google, but I will not make my opinion public.
I've seen a lot of them too, also one about scrapping a car and tons of those "Ask a ..... online" kind of ads. Sometimes the latter appears on an appropriate page, I'm wondering if they're a low payer though. Anybody else have any thoughts on this?
Interestingly, I seem to get diverse, targeted and in some cases, what I consider to be high paying sets of ads on my regionally targeted sites. Possibly because they're a little more niche, it's easier for Google to target ads to them.
I tend to see the more generic (and usually lower paying) ads on my sites with a broader audience/topic.
YMMV.
As I am using an Adwords voucher to finance a little play with an aStore this thread does make me think that I should have several different variants of the ad and swap between them.
I'm already beginning to see a higher CTR after putting every weight loss ad I found in the competitive ad filter. I'm sure new ones will pop up every day, so it will be an ongoing process.
Btw, many of those ads I can hardly see with my screen resolution at 1024 x 768. A fluid layout could work?
not to make light of your predicament, but I'm glad it's not just me... for a while I thought it was Google just following me around from site to site telling me I was too fat. They *do* know everything, ya know...
not to make light of your predicament, but I'm glad it's not just me... for a while I thought it was Google just following me around from site to site telling me I was too fat. They *do* know everything, ya know...
You must not have read the memo. Google has an agreement with grocery store chains across the country to view your purchasing habits with those grocery store "discount" cards the cashier swipes before you pay.
If you buy too much fatty food (food that tastes good), they show you weight loss ads when you surf the Web.
Personally I keep seeing ads that read "Women Want You" or "Hot Lonely Women will Pay for a Date with you!" or something similar. I'm trying to figure out what I bought at the grocery store that led to this.
FarmBoy
Hot Lonely Women will Pay for a Date with you
Hot women aren't lonely, so that must be phony. ;)
Hot women aren't lonely
You've obviously never heard of the curse of the pretty woman.
FarmBoy
I dunno, I might try removing one or two ad blocks - might prevent the duplicate ads, and leave you with more of the high paying ads and fewer of the filler ads.
I Know Why People Aren't Clicking!
Very few new ads.
Maybe their mouse is broken?
Actually, it's true, the ads are getting very repetitious.
I only use one ad block per page. I've seen way too many duplicates which is the reason for users NOT to click.
But we took it one step further and had Google disable site targeting for our site. So no advertiser can over-ride the contextual ads.
It seems to work well for us. Over the last year site targeted ads only generated less than 1% of our income, but were taking up 20% of our impressions.
By disabling them, we are seeing better ads and better revenues overall. But be aware that this may not be the case for every site, you may have some advertisers targeting you that pay very well. So be sure to study your statistics.
fortunately, these good topics are the ones i like writing about.
as regards lose weight ads, they are there because there is nothing better for google adsense to show. block them and maybe things will get better.
You might also consider the possiblity that when a user comes to your site for a specific recepie and finds all the information needed, then no amount of ads leading to other recipe sites or recipe clubs are going to be of any use to said visitor.
[edited by: Scurramunga at 12:35 am (utc) on Nov. 5, 2008]
People get tired of seeing them...and I have very high traffic at my site.
Yes, but is it fresh traffic, or does it consist of the same old, tired (and presumably overweight) visitors?
...(and presumably overweight)...
Havent actually visited the profile site, but would imagine Google sending Fat ads to food-related sites as somewhat predictable
