Ad targeting - perfect example how to do it wrong

I get better ads to my own harddisk

[jetteroheller]

My doughters just have chicken box.

So I searched for "apothecary my-village" to know the open times

Found a page with AdSense.

All the data about the apothecary in my village,
and 468x60 ad about search engine optimization.

Complete wrong ad, but it was caused because the
site owner wrote

"Change Your entry"
"Last referers"
"Google"

So many times, that Google thought this is a page about search engine services.

So I wanted to know it better.
I created on my own harddisk a page

d:/internet/my-domain.com/my-village/apothecary.htm

And 2 ads about apothecary and pharmacy appeared.

So a good AdSense publisher receives on his own
harddisk better targeted ads than a bed one on
his web site.

[alezimolo]

Not necessary, when I open a certain page from my site locally from my harddrive I get better targeted ads than online!

Does anyone know why?
I tried to change the ads format but did'nt help, same result!?

[wrightee]

I had the same thing for a couple of days - viewing locally produced great ads, viewing online produced either PSAs or just one annoying ad. It seemed that the ads were only related to the filename in the URL.

Then.. 1-2 days later everything cleared up; I assume when the page got indexed by AdSense. Now, spot on ads all the time (touch wood)!

C

[valeyard]

Google doesn't index your hard drive. Well... no, that would be paranoid conspiracy theory :-).

So when you're viewing a page locally the only thing Adsense has to go on is the URL. It can't serve ads based on content until the page is published and has been crawled.

[robsynnott]

That Adsense preview thing doesn't do that, no? (Me's on Linux so can't check)

[tebrino]

On one of my web sites I thanked all people for helping me translate my pages and in next few days all ads were about translation sevices. Off course if you're patient enough everything settles down after few days even without applying URL filters