Can anyone tell me how to make the Google Adsense ads on my blog more relevant? Is there some way of telling the Adsense algorithm where to look for the actual content on my blog?
The problem I have right now with Adsense is that the ads on my site are all about blogs. The ads are totally unrelated to what I’m posting about and inherently uselss. If I could tell the googlebot algorithm thingy what my posts were about then it could place relevant ads based on that. I guess the problem with that would be people gaming the system by posting about their cat and saying its actually about asbestos because you’d get like a dollar every time someone clicks on an ad for that subject…
I guess I’d just like the Adsense algorithm to be able to separate the content of my posts from the layout of my blog. So that when its trying to decide what type of ad to put up it doesn’t think my blog is just about blogs because I have the word BLOG in big bold letters at the top of every page.
Gmail knows how to separate the content of an email from the layout and the ads are quite effective. In other words, the ads in Gmail are not just all ads for free email services, they are actually targeted and occasionally useful!
It would be nice to be able to tell the thing where to look for the real content. This would be beneficial for everyone. Users would see more relevant ads whereas bloggers and Google would generate more revenue…
Any ideas?
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4 responses to “How to make Adsense ads more relevant”
Dude, write the code yourself and sell it to google and give me some of the profit!
Here’s a couple suggestions:
1) Stop using the word blog so much. (Sorry, that was the easy one!) :) But seriously, “The Last Minute” is a good title, perhaps just as good as “The Last Minute Blog”.
2) Your using a css layout, so your sidebar code need not preceed your content. The closer you can move your content DIVs to the top of the page source, the better off your going to be. Rearrange your templates to have the content portions preceed the sidebar. The layout won’t change, but the order of the text in the page source (the way Google reads it) will change.
I’m sure there are more great ideas out there. But that’s what worked for me. You’ll still see some blog ads on the page, but the ads should become more targeted to your content if you implement #2.
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