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[Barbra]

I have a blog with Adsense on it. On my main index (home) page all my Adsense link ads are for Adsense or similarly PPC related i.e. "Adsense, Get Adsense, Adwords bidding, Google Adsense ready"

I don't have any articles on that page that relate to adsense or online advertising.

On all my other pages the adsense links relate quite clearly to the content of the page.

What gives? I find it annoying to always see the same ads on my home page, especially because they are not related to the content.

[qwerty]

There was a post at Google Blogoscoped about this on Wednesday: On Google Advertising Itself

[mal4mac]

You need to help Google more - try a better title, something like: "Home business opportunities...". Also you have several very different articles on your home page. I can see no over-arching theme, therefore the poor Googlebot is unlikely to suss one out. Therefore, it is probably adopting a default "advertise myself" position. I find the contextual abilitie of Adsense to be remarkable. When I really try to have one theme the ads show for that theme. If I have two themes it inter-leaves ads based on both themes. But title, headings, body text must all be on theme(s). Jill, if I remember correctly, recommends having 2 or 3 main keywords per page. The same is true for themes. More than three and confusion reigns.

Edited by mal4mac, 07 December 2006 - 04:31 AM.

[Barbra]

very helpful, thank you so much

[mal4mac]

You could experiment with putting an ad on your certified coach home page, that looks well themed. It shouldn't interfere with your business, at least that seems to be the general consensus (but check this out!) As you can fiilter ads you could get a nice complementary bunch of ads and maybe even get more business.

[Barbra]

The problem has resolved itself without me doing anything (except ask the question on this forum) Go figure. Now the contextual ads are showing up appropriate to the most recent (or possibly longest) post on my blog's homepage.

Thanks again for all the suggestions.

[BobetteKyle]

To help Google figure out relevant topic on a page, you can also enclose relevant content with one or more "google_ad_section" tags:

CODE

<!-- google_ad_section_start -->

content, content, content

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

Has to be a significant amount of content, though....not just a keyword phrase here and there.

[Advertistic]

Sometimes it just takes Adsense a little while to 'settle-in' and optimise the ads according to content.

They can be very random at first..