WordPress, AdSense, and Irrelevant Ads

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.

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.

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

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? ??

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The link for the blog is:
https://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?

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!

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.