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1. mj0202
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Lately I've noticed a funny issue while using Google AdSense and WordPress... while AdSense works great on my site, it only delivers ads targeted to the keyword "blog" on my blog. This is really weird, as I rarely use the word "blog", and there are certainly other targeted keywords that show up a lot more frequently. This is even happening on permalinked pages where the word "blog" is only used in the URL! My blog is indexed by Google, and these aren't PSA's, so that's not the problem.

   Has anyone else run into this issue and figured out what caused it? I saw a post awhile back in the archives of this forum, but eventually the poster's AdSense started working normally and they never figured out what the problem was.

   TIA!

2. tomhanna
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   How about a link to your blog?

   There tend to be lots of places that have the word blog like...do you have a blogroll? When you link to another blog in a post do you use the word "blog"? What ends up happening is that you probably have the word blog on every page, in the sidebar with every post, etc. Other keywords are probably more sporadic.

   A last thing. Rumor has it that you need to have a fair number of posts over 250 words to get good keyword ranking with a blog.

   Other than that, it's often a matter of time. If your blog got indexed before it had much on it, it may be a while before it gets indexed again.

3. tomhanna
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Wow. I missed the fact that the word "blog" is used in your URL. That's big. Keywords in URLs get LOTS of weight from the major search engines.

4. billsaysthis
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   AdSense configuration has options to have the system ignore certain words, might be useful for you to investigate.

5. mj0202
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Thanks for the tips, tomhanna! That's a big help. It looks like it IS the word "blog" in the URL that's causing the problem - other than in the URL, "blog" isn't used anywhere on the main page of the blog. Hmm, I guess I'll have to change the URL then, which means putting temp redirects into .htaccess. Any ideas for generic blog directory names? :D

6. tomhanna
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   zine...newsletter...news...log...journal...thoughts...opinions...rants...

7. tomhanna
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   billsaysthis - where is that in Adsense? I know you can filter competitive URLS, but I've never seen anything to ignore certain words and I can't find it.

8. 7milesdown
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   name your folder Yahoo! lmao. I get alot of Blog ads on my site as well...

9. battra
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Tomhanna: if you have VERY high traffic, you can ask Google for a feature to add keywords to your ads and make them even more targetted. But we are talking about really high volume.

10. nmallory
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    I'm having the same problem...only it's both "blog" and food/recipe links. Since I don't do food/recipes on that particular site, I'm confused.

    I emailed them about it and they said it was due to my site redesign...but it was doing that before the redesign.

    The blog in question: The Naked Truth

11. DianeV
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    nmallory, my guess is that your blog is being affected by the content of the main domain, exit-23.net. Your URL: http://nmallory.exit-23.net/

    A brief check of exit-23.net shows that there's a Food Chef category there --- and your blog being on a subdomain of exist-23.net, it appears that Google is applying that theme to your site.

12. nmallory
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    well, I tried to separate the subdomains as channels on adsense. I don't think that works. annoying.

13. tomhanna
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    The channels don't have any affect on what ads are served. They are just to allow you to track which ads are most effective, so you can improve your results by doing more of what works best.

    And for what it's worth, all the ads I'm seeing are about the war in Iraq. Your posts cover a lot of subjects, some of which are very personal and aren't going to generate good keywords for ads.

14. mj0202
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    The link for the blog is:
    http://tinyurl.com/7msg9

    (TinyURL to keep this thread from interfering with Google results for my domain - I'm not trying to get Google to cache the TinyURL or anything.) As you can see, the posts are mostly about radio frequencies and my freeware apps - nothing personal that wouldn't pull a targeted ad.

    Hmm, I may have to change the URL from /blog/ to /infolog/ or something like that. .htaccess can be used to forward all URLs within a certain directory, right?

15. mj0202
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    And, in what's probably a Google plot to make me look like a fool, the ads are relevant now. Go figure. But thanks for all the suggestions, they were really helpful!

16. billsaysthis
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    Sorry, been awhile since I dealt with the same issue. I used the
    Competitive Ad Filter to block the most commly recurring URLs (which were for blog or RSS sites) and since then I don't get the problem.

17. PhilEsq
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I have many different types of irrelevant ads on different types of pages. I do not believe that the URL has anything to do with it. I have written twice to Google asking if there is a way to choose the subject of the advertising and they replied the first time by saying that they appreciated my comments and would pass it along. The second time they said:

    Although we don't currently offer the ability to select ads for a particular page, we appreciate your feedback. To help us keep better track of your comments and feature suggestions, please feel free to submit them
    at http://google.com/adsense_features_email.

    I was wondering if anyone can tell me what the difference is between the three AdSense plug-ins and which is best (AdSense-Deluxe, MightyAdSense or AdSense-Paster).

18. infosecpodcast
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I was getting nothing but Blog related ads on my site. I did a wordcount for Blog on my home page...245 times it showed up. The reason? I was using the phpmoplroll plugin & widget. The word blog or blogroll roll showed up over 200 times because of the number of people in my blogroll and the frequent usage of variables with the word blog in it. I rewrote the plugin / widget and now have about 20 refernces to blog on my page....mostly in links.

    --Chris

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