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This should be very helpfull on pages that cover several topics, like a home page might.
Haven't tried this yet because I just spotted the notice while checking my stats. Sounds interesting though.
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As some of you begin to implement this feature on your pages, I'll be interested to hear more about your experiences.
-ASA
I have an overall theme of red widgets, but when I made a post that focused only on blue widgets, I had all the ads related to the subject in just a few minutes.
I have also found it useful in some forums to cut out comment text that may have people's names in it that can influence ads displayed.
In fact I just tried another test where I exlcuded most of my headers and footers, included the forum text and made a post on green widgets, and as soon as I was done and it was redisplayd, I had ads for green widgets displaying.
now publishers can write about their topic however they choose, and then indicate to google the sections to ignore.
in theory, at least, this is a boon to content on websites with adsense.
However, what I would really like is a beat or topic filter. Other day ran a story about Enimem drug problems and end up with ads about clinics etc. All very well but if say entertainment filter then might have shown something to do with his music, which is what people reading it are maybe more likely to be interested in.
But a good move regardless :-)
The link on post 3 just refuses to work for me no matter how many times I refresh the page.
James
To implement section targeting, you'll need to add a set of special HTML comment tags to your code. These tags will mark the beginning and end of whichever section(s) you'd like to emphasize or de-emphasize for ad targeting.
The HTML tags to emphasize a page section take the following format:
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
You can also designate sections you'd like to have ignored by adding a (weight=ignore) to the starting tag:
<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
With these tags added to your HTML code, your final code may look like the following:
<html><head><title>Section targeting</title></head>
<body>
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
This is the text of your web page. Most of your content resides here.
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
</body>
</html>
You can use section targeting to make suggestions about as many sections of a page as you like. However, please be aware that we can't guarantee results, and that it may take up to 2 weeks before our crawlers take into account any changes you've made to your site.
Please also note that in order to properly implement this feature, you'll need to include a significant amount of content within the section targeting tags. Including insufficient content may result in less relevant ads or PSAs.
Getting late here, might start looking at inserting some of that code tomorrow!
