Adsense Newbie - Getting all 'blog' ads on my blog :(

Hi all
First of all, I am so thankful that I found this forum. I've been reading and it has been a great help to me so far. I have one question though.

My adsense is located on my blog. The user is like 'www.domain.com/blog'. The problem is that I am seeing 'blog' ads on a lot of my 'posts': such as "Get your own blog, Software Blog, HP Blog'.. etc etc etc. I guess the reason is that It looks at the url and it find 'blog'; and the links on the page are also containing the word 'blog' in the url. I dont think the content is a problem because even if I post about iPod, Apple etc; I get 'blog' ads

Does anyone have any suggestion or have experienced this before? What can I do other than remove the word 'blog' from the url; and then loose all my SEO

Thanks for your tips in advance!

 

That's not the reason. It has nothing to do with your URL. Google decide what Ads to put related to your content. If you 've just start ur blog, give it a few day. May be google didn't crawl your blog yet

 

That is what google showed for me at first. I think the next day I started getting relevant ads.


https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=10005&topic=160

You can also go to that link and get a preview tool that will show you what ads you should expect to see.

Good Luck.

 

Happens to everyone. Give it a few days to a few weeks then you should start seeing more relevant ads. If your blog is a "anything goes" type (i.e. there is no one unified theme, say, the blog is about ipods) then you'll get some pretty random stuff, usually for postings you made a day or a week ago and not for the most current entry. This happens a lot with new blogs on new domain names, and there's really not a lot you can do to speed up the process.

By the way, what kind of blog software are you running? If you're using WP, make use of the Google sitemap plug-in. It pings Google to come back to your site and spider it everytime you update your blog. Movable Type and other blogging software might have similar plug-ins.

 

My partner's blog is all about recipes and photos she's taken (granny's grove)and I noticed that her ad's were recipe based as soon as her blog went live, I think the reason was that we prepopulated her blog whith half a dozen recipes so when Google first indexed the site the spider wasn't just seeing one entry about nothing and a whole lot of blog code. I think users who want to start getting good quality adsense from the get-go should also prepopulate their blogs with half a dozen entries on their chosen topic.

 

I dont know blogging so please excuse my ignorance

Would it help at all if you change the title of your blog and the meta tags

 

Yeah... Meta tags and alt tags have helped a ton om my community www.boardingscene.com

Not only did they raise my keyword rev from 2% to about 10%, my ads are highly targeted now.

My clicks have gone up a good bit now, and I am doing about $3-$5 a day now with my one site.

 

I think my partner's site demonstrates that the blog title and the metatags used make no difference whatsoever to adsense - it is 100% content that gets the adsense to work properly.

 

Not sure if you have read up on this but you can actually tell google what parts of text you want your ads to be based on. It might be worth a look:

http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=23168

Hope that helps

 

Wow.. you guys blow me away with all your quick responses. Let me try to address all points.

1) I am using wordpress and the google sitemap plugin.
2) Google has 195 pages of my blog indexed (if i search using site:myblogadr in google); so the site has been indexed pretty well.
3) Here is my url if you wouldn't mind visiting and giving some tips: <a href="http://jatshergill.com/blog"> My Blog </a>. Forgive me if this is against the rules.
4) I think the main thing is maybe my 'posts' are too short..

 

wow, I didn't know you could do that - that is great news. Thank you

 

People don't realize that when Google first visits your page, they look for a common theme (a keyword) and immediately places your blog (your domain, in fact) into a specific category. Later, when the spider returns, they will send you more relevant ads to specific posts, but before that happens, and in case they don't have ads for those posts, they'll send you ads from the initial category they had placed you in.

In your case, shergill, I believe when Google first visited you, it had no idea what your site was all about, so it placed you in the "blog" category, because that's the one keyword it kept seeing over and over, so just assumed your site was about blogging. And since it has yet to return to fully spider your site, it's just sending you generic blogging ads, because that's where your domain has been placed.

I've seen this happen time and time again.

I am willing to bet that this is the same case with the blog of Carl's friend. Those recipe ads the domain got when it first came up are generic recipe ads from the recipe category, and not specific to any posts. Overtime, this will happen, but it does take time.

Hope all this makes sense.

 

Thanks.. that makes sense. Hopefully it corrects itself over time.

 

I've always known it to do so, anyway. Good luck.