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Get More Out of Adsense - Tips to Improve Contextual Targeting on your Site

As an Adsense publisher, I am often annoyed to find my web pages filled with public service announcements (PSA) and ads unrelated to the content of my site. Fewer relevant ads means fewer click-throughs and ultimately lower Adsense revenues. However advanced Google's contextual ad serving algorithm may be, it is still a computer program (as opposed to a human being) trying to figure out what a web page is about.

Holiday In Wales Below are some tips to help you optimize your pages to make them more Adsense-friendly. Note that these tips deal with ad delivery rather than ad formatting or placement. While ad formatting and placement may affect ad click-through rates, they have nothing to do with the delivery of relevant ads to your site. Your site must display relevant ads before they have any chance of being clicked on.

    high traffic, since you will be paid per thousand visits.

  • Using contextual advertising, such as Adbrite, Google Adsense

Holiday Wales 1. Avoid too much content on a page

Of course, the great benefit of building your internet businesses with Adsense, is that they'll keep earning you money whilst you take your holidays, earned rest. So, instead of dreading the holidays, learn to make the most of them plan for them, and use them to make even more money with Google Adsense! For the latest information on making money with Adsense, visit Google Adsense secrets & tips.

Cottage Holiday In Wales If Adsense does not understand what is your page is about, it cannot deliver ads targeted to its content. Although a human being can easily tell what a web page is about by taking a glance at it, computer algorithms are no so intelligent. If your page contains too much content, chances are that it also contains too many seemingly unrelated keywords. Adsense becomes confused and displays PSAs or ads unrelated to the topic of your page. Try dividing the page into smaller ones, each focusing on just a few related keywords.

    do you have a page with contextual ads from another company (ex., Yahoo! Publisher Network) Make a choice. (As of January 2007, you can have other contextual ads on the same page as your AdSense ads, as long as they cannot be confused with AdSense ads. So make the competing ads with different background or border colors. Yahoo! Publisher Network does not allow competing ads, so you won't be able to use them with AdSense ads.)

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Caravan Holiday In Wales 2. Avoid too little content on a page

They may also use information about your visits to this and other Web sites to target advertisements for goods and services.

Camping Holiday Wales If your page contains lots of graphics and very little text, Adsense may have a hard time figuring out what it is about. This is especially true when the bulk of your content is derived from graphics and scripts. When possible, use text rather than graphics to display website names, page titles, and headline texts. Make certain to include your keywords in the title of your page and repeat them throughout the page. Avoid hiding your text through sneaky tactics, such as using tiny fonts or making your text the same color as the background. This may be construed by search engines as spam.

A recent example raises serious question marks about the search network, available to Google Adwords advertisers. As an advertiser on Google Adwords, you can choose to display your ads on the Google content network, which will mean that Google will display your ads on sites within their content network that their algorithm determines to be relevant to the keywords that you target. This has been enhanced (and improved) by the newer site placement option but this form of contextual advertising typically produces a far lower click through rate and vastly inferior overall performance when compared to a true search journey.

Accommodation Holiday Wales 3. Repeat keywords that you are targeting

Holiday Last Minute Wales Keyword repetition makes it easier for Adsense to decipher what your page is about. Do this in moderation as excessive repetition may be considered spam by the search engines. Excessive repetition may also make your writing sound awkward to the human reader. Instead of repeating the same keyword more than 5 or 6 times on a page, use synonyms and related keywords. For example, instead of repeating "Adsense optimization" 20 times, you might try alternative phrases like "increase Adsense revenues" or "earn more from Adsense".

Catering Holiday Self Wales 4. Avoid acronyms

Holiday Wales Walking I once wrote an article on pay-per-click advertising for one of my sites. When I uploaded the article to my site, I was surprised to find that all of the ads showing on the page were for Apple computer products and had nothing to do with pay-per-click. It later occurred to me that instead of repeating "pay-per-click" over and over in the article, I used the acronym "PPC" numerous times. As it turned out, "PPC" also stands for "PowerPC", Apple's line of Power Macintosh computers, which explained why I was getting all the Apple related ads. When I replaced all the "PPCs" with "pay-per-click" and "pay per click", the problem went away.

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5. Choose keywords with commercial value

Holiday Riding Wales You may get public service announcements rather than paid ads if your page deals with a subject matter whose keywords no one bids on. A remedy for this is to incorporate keywords with commercial value into your manuscript. For instance, if your page is on some obscure medical condition, you might try sprinkling a few drug names into your document to make it display paid ads rather than PSAs.

Adventure Holiday Wales Oudam Em is the publisher of SEOToday.net, a free resource for search engine optimization and website promotion. Visit his site for more SEO articles and tools.

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