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Yesterday I wrote an article and the ads weren't really on-topic at all. There was one word in a sentence near the top of the page - which only appeared once on the entire page - and all four ads in the leaderboard and all four ads in the medium box further down the page were related to this one word - it's the family name of an individual, so I can't remove it from the article, unfortunately.
I thought I would change the order of some of the elements in the HTML document (everything is positioned with CSS-P) to see if that would push the adverts in an on-topic direction. It didn't.
So I thought that perhaps Google needs to spider the page again before the ads change? A bit late to the preview tool party, I installed the preview tool by changing the registry and so on to find out what the ads might change to when the page was next spidered.
No difference. The preview tool just gave me the same ads which were already showing on the page.
Okay, so I deleted the online page, renamed it offline and uploaded it again.
This time, all the ads changed to something far more on-topic for the article. When I used the preview tool it gave me the same new ads which were showing on the re-ordered page.
So, then I went back to the code, shifted the elements back to their original order and re-uploaded the file. All the ads stayed as they were, on-topic. So I tried the preview tool again and it gave me the same on-topic ads as were showing on the page.
So... err.. what use is the preview tool? It doesn't seem to tell me at all what adverts are going to be showing when the page is next spidered. (Just those ads that are already there).
I am almost entirely certain that if I gave the page a new name and re-uploaded it in its originally ordered state, I'd get the same off-topic ads I had at the very beginning.
Does anyone know to get the preview tool to actually produce a preview rather than a review?
Err... does anyone use the preview tool?
A few times when it first came out. Haven't used it since.
