Damn Google Adsense (Again)!!!
November 26th, 2006
My Google Adsense ads are all about Christmas trees, all day, all the time. I do have one link to a Christmas tree farm in my right column. Now this post will ensure Christmas tree ads for weeks to come. Lawnmower, lawnmower, lawnmower. Google, give me some ads about lawnmowers!
Heya, glad you enjoyed the WebGuild presentation. It was a pleasure being on that panel!
Regarding AdSense — while I’m not in that department and definitely can’t speak for them officially — you might want to try page area targeting (or whatever they call it) if you haven’t already… specifying exactly what portion of your page content (e.g., blog body, not nav area) should be used for contextual clues. I remember this being at least moderately helpful when I used AdSense on my own blog a year or so ago.
Also, if you notice targeting being wildly off and consistently so, drop the AdSense folks a note at adsense-support [at] google.com. It’s my recollection that they can tweak something to improve relevancy in certain situations.
After all, everyone wins (advertisers, Google, and you) when the ads are more relevant. Not that there’s anything wrong with Christmas trees, of course