Adsense and .asp

[david_uk]

Not sure if this has been asked before or answered already, but here goes.

I've got a page that is mostly generated by .asp from a database. The ads on this page are relevant because there is a fair amount of pre-amble text fixed on the page to allow the bot to target correctly. But if I place the ads on a page where virtually all of the content is generated by the .asp script, the ads aren't targetted.

Has anyone had any success with getting .asp generated pages to have correctly targetted ads?

[jenkers]

Hi David,
do your asp pages have a static url or does the url change due to variables you are sending accross in the QueryString?

[david_uk]

do your asp pages have a static url or does the url change due to variables you are sending accross in the QueryString?

A mixture to be honest. A small number of pages are the main page of a sub section and will be static url's. These pages tend to have a few words on them, but not enough to allow the bot to target correctly - the content i'd like targetted is generated by the page from a database.

Most of the pages are generated by querystring, so the url will vary, and these pages there is absolutely no point putting adsense on until/if I can sort out the targetting issues.

[jenkers]

I did some testing around the very same issue a while back.

I found with static urls normally there was enough text if I generated relevant text in the meta title, other meta information in the page, and put the relevant text on the page.

Of course, if the content changes every time then this doesn't help too much as (unless things have changed) the ads are served retrospectively (generally) against the url that the mediabot has parsed on a previous visit.

Urls including the querystring are a little more difficult. I found if I generated the pages including the querystring, refreshed it, and then generated the same url some minutes later then the ads were spot on.

However, you might have thousands or even millions of permutations depending on your site.

If your querystring comes from a limited number of variable choices then you could preview the pages for the benefit of the mediabot yourself in orders to show the ads to your subsequent visitors who use the same criteria.

Did that make sense? Of course somebody else here might have a much better solution.

[david_uk]

I'm thinking that what may work best is to head towards having static url's with enough text/meta info for the bot to target ads. Then hopefully the ads will be targetted to what the .asp is likely to generate.

Thanks for the info.