i went to the miami site, and found the keywords in the ads relevent, it takes time for them to happen but to me it all appears normal.
No, look at the first page of the blog – the ad is totally irrelevant.
I’ve tried this with the smaller Google text ads – same result.
Pick any other post and you’ll get relevant ads. One that seems to be recurring is about Florida condos. The first page shows something about Deer Creek Lodge and not about Miami or The Beaches.
Look at http://innercycling.com/blogs/
The ad is for Ringtones. Nothing to do with the site. Subsequent ads are correct.
im telling you, for me they arent they are about holidays to miami and stuff
For the miami beach link, I saw a florida condo ad and for the innercycling link I saw aerobics and exercise ads. Looks relevant to me.
OK … so someone at Google is reading my posts and fixing it before you guys get there.
I’m tellin ya, the first page is interpreted differently than subsequent pages, and this will only be fixed when someone who writes WordPress code has it happen to them.
Sitting in a cubicle writing code where the WordPress coder’s job is not dependent upon ad revenue will ensure that this is never fixed.
The fact remains that the first page is interpeted differently and they are killing my keywords.
All index ads look relevant to me, also, for what is on your index.
The index setup doesn’t have the ability to kill keywords. Google site indexing is totally responsible for ad content based on what it gathers. Admittedly, it takes about 4 weeks of indexing to get totally relevant ads.
No it doesn’t take 4 weeks.
You get immediate feedback from Google when you adjust the keywords.
In fact, anyone wanting to know how their site stacks up with SEO should use Adsense – it immediately shows any deficiencies in how you SEO your pages because if you do your keywprds and content correctly, you get the right ads, rightaway, not in 4 weeks.
OK – you win. WP is killing your site. And what Google themselves state is totally irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
OK … so now that I have had a few people hitting the site from several new locations, the ads are coming up relevant now.
Plus there is a conspiracy at Google against me to make me look foolish.
Go figure. I know what I saw though.
miamittom: Yes, I have seen what you are talking about, but it comes and goes. The thing about relevance is that they’re trying to place ads immediately relevant to the page content. For an index page, there’s a lot of varying content, and sometimes it mucks up the relevance factors and ends up with more generic ads instead.
But it does take a day or two to see any changes, things don’t happen immediately. Google must crawl the page again before they see what’s new.
Using Google Sitemaps and a sitemaps plugin helps with this, as it lets you ping Google when pages change all automatically. Also, using the Google ad markers around your post texts (in The Loop) helps significantly. It’s little minor things like these that help Google make ads more relevant overall.
Also, don’t forget that “relevance” is a fuzzy term, as they may not have any relevant ad buyers for your content at any given moment. What’s relevant depends on who’s currently buying, and that varies from moment to moment.
The ads are context sensitive and show fine for me.
Where you are located can make a difference to what ads are served up.
WordPress does NOT kill your words at all. It is simply what google is deciding to serve up.
I have no idea why you keep arguing the point when we can all see them just fine to be honest.
Have you been to another computer at a different location, meaning not in the same street or building or on the same connection.
Try going via a proxy / anon browsing website and see what you get then.
The ads are fine. Dont worry. 🙂
Dave
PS, I am a search engine specialist of 7 years, its my job to know. I guess you are also aware that the media bot and google spider have been merged into one crawler. Though they visit straight away it can take time for the correct ads to start showing.
Oh, and if you still dont believe any of us then perhaps we shall take some screen caps? Or maybe even just ignore you instead. Ho hum! :d
Sorry, just read your post saying you now know whats going on, still, most of what I said still stands 🙂
Dave
Sitting in a cubicle writing code where the WordPress coder’s job is not dependent upon ad revenue will ensure that this is never fixed.
Ummm… most everyone contributing code, or themes, or plugins, or support, are doing so from the comfort of their home. No cubicle jockeys, there is no ‘wordpress office’ aside from Matt’s house. 😉 I myself spend tons of time building and supporting plugins, but nobody is paying me to do it (except for the once-in-a-blue-moon donation, which I appreciate).
And how much did you pay for WordPress? And how many donations have you made to the core or to people you’ve used code or themes from?
-d
