Newbie Question - My blog only shows ads for blogs etc.

I have a travel blog, for some reason adsense only shows ads for other blogs, not based on the content I put in it. It is a travel blog, but I don't get travel ads, when I put my URL into a sandbox adsense preview tool though it always shows travel ads, just not any on the live site.

Thanks!

http://www.gratisair.com

 

try to use section targetting. There is some great information about this on this forum .
Furthermore try to seo your urls .
For example : Instead of http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/content/p14.php it will show http://www.mywebsite.com/travel/ibiza/tickets or something like that.

Almost every decent blog package has seo'd urls .

 

One of your problems is that the directory for your content is http://www.gratisair.com/blog/ - Adsense gives a fair amount of weight to directory names. I'd suggest renaming that or eliminating the subdirectory entirely.

Also, you yourself use the word "blog" on your page: "Reload this Blog" and "Theme: Problogger Clean" - minor by themselves, of course, but combined with the /blog subdir, enough to trigger Adsense. I'd change it to "Reload this page or use section tags to keep Adsense focused on what you want it to see.

 

I only saw relevant ads (i.e. air line and travel ads), so it might just be that there aren't any ads for you.

 

Definately saw targetted ads as well..mostly for airlines.

 

Me too, I think your problem is solved...

 

Clear your cache. This sometimes happens to me. After I clear it, the relevant or should I say the most upto date ads show up and not the one in your cache.

 

I can't find it in a hurry but we had a thread here on DP on the filter list to get rid of most 'blog' type ads. Try the 'similar threads' below or search.

 

Thanks for your help. I had figured it out Wordpress was on a subfolder named Blog so all my ads were blog based.

Thanks for the help.

 

It's only serving blog ads because your blog is new. Calling the subfolder "blog" is not the main reason, it's just one reason (Google has no information on you, so in the short while it'll only serve you blog ads because your blog is probably full of the word "blog"). As soon as Google indexes your blog, it'll serve more relevant ads. People are so impatient nowadays...