IBLs and Adsense Targeting

too many factors!

[LeoXIV]

[just checked]One of my sites which is 6 months has about 108 non-recip backlinks. Ironically when this site was new Adsense targeting was laser sharp; unlike now that its has almost %50 of then accuracy. Anybody has had similar observations/thoughts?

[ken_b]

Inbound links affecting the Adsense targeting on your pages? That's an interesting idea.

I think it's probable that Google uses inbound links, among many other things, to evaluate what your pages are about as far as ranking your page in the general serps are concerned.

I don't see how that would mix with Adsense targeting.

The outbound links, and even internal site links, on your page might play a role in targeting because of the anchor text you use in those links.

[elsewhen]

i have a few sites on which i run adsense. one of my long-standing sites is in a specific niche, and i used it to heavily link to a newer site that covers several topics.

when the newer site was still young, it often got ads that are related to the long-standing site (and not relevant to the page content). once mediabot got a chance to thoroughly crawl the new site and all the pages, the targeting got much better.

in general, i think you should just give it some time, and once mediabot gets a chance to "figure your site out," the targeting is likely to improve. remember that google also benefits from accurate targeting - so you are definitely on the same side of the fence with them on this one.

[ken_b]

Yes, if you place Adsense on another site It seems we've seen other comments here saying that it might take a while for the new site to be targeted correctly.

But that's a bit different concept compared to just inbound links.

If we're talking about inbound links from another site on which you run Adsense from the same account I can see where the mistargetting might happen, but would it be the result of the shared Adsense account, or the links, or both?

I guess I thought the original post was about inbound links from other peoples sites. Perhaps I misunderstood.

[elsewhen]

ken-b... after rereading, it is clear that i was the one that misread the initial post. its hard to know if my experience was due to the one-way-IBLs or because the two sites are on the same adsense account.

[LeoXIV]

I guess I thought the original post was about inbound links from other peoples sites. Perhaps I misunderstood.

yes that what i meant.

i did a test yesterday. imagine you have ad A on your page which you think is not relevant. Lets call title of A, 'adAtitle'. Now in yahoo, type in:

Linkdomain:mysite.com adAtitle

what do you see?