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Why are my Adsense Ads on my site so crappy?

by andirn1
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I have blogs and sites with plenty of content on them, yet every time I view my page I see almost the same Adsense Ads that even I think are lame and would never click on! Yet I recently visited a blog with hardly any content but a handful of random comments and his ads are very targeted and interesting, I would click most of them. What gives? Am I missing something?
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  • Profile picture of the author ivansk
    Did you try do delete google's cookies in your browser? Or turn on privacy mode?
    Adsense ads on my sites are pretty related to the them of blogs if there is decent amount of text.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by andirn1 View Post

    I have blogs and sites with plenty of content on them, yet every time I view my page I see almost the same Adsense Ads that even I think are lame and would never click on! Yet I recently visited a blog with hardly any content but a handful of random comments and his ads are very targeted and interesting, I would click most of them. What gives? Am I missing something?
    Ha, ha,... that's how it's done.

    People on this forum think they need articles for Adsense, when all you need is content, which comes in many forms, not just articles.

    I always laugh when I see people on this forum (not you OP) pay money to have some 3rd world article writer write articles for the amazing low price of $5 (WOW! :rolleyes: ). They don't like writing articles & at the same time they think articles are required by Adsense (wrong), which as OP found out leads to crappy Ads that aren't focused because there's so much text on the page.

    The larger amount of text on a page, the more subjects/niches you'll end up getting Ads for while running Adsense. Sure I get a few irrelevant Ads every now & then (personalized Ads, etc...), everyone does, but for the most part my Ads are pretty focused on the same niche & I don't have articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      It is funny, Yukon.

      Title, h1, and that's it...basically. Give or take.

      What's good for adsense, is actually pretty good
      for SEO. I wish all these I-need-1000-word-articles-
      because-I-want-quality-content website owners
      would keep piling it on...

      Thing is, google targets people, places, and times.

      Everyone is human. I watch the food channel and see
      ads for autos....go figure. I'm watching the Super Bowl,
      and dang, I get godaddy. They need more NFL ads...

      That's just to those who think you need 100% "targeted"
      ads 100% of the time.

      What's creepy, is amazon. I order stuff on amazon a lot, and
      man, it is pretty creepy to visit a site after, and see amazon
      or other ads for similar products. That I just browsed for or bought.

      Creepy.

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  • Profile picture of the author TZ
    Originally Posted by andirn1 View Post

    I have blogs and sites with plenty of content on them, yet every time I view my page I see almost the same Adsense Ads that even I think are lame and would never click on! Yet I recently visited a blog with hardly any content but a handful of random comments and his ads are very targeted and interesting, I would click most of them. What gives? Am I missing something?
    Some days it goes that way - sometimes I wonder if Adsense simply spreads the ads around from publisher to publisher to spread the wealth or keep variety.

    Don't know but if you had the ads right on topic before, they should return.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheAdsenseGuy
    Here's how you find niches that have adsense ads that will be relevant. BEFORE you pick a niche to build an adsense site on:

    Put your url or main keyword into this site: Google AdSense Sandbox - Preview Tool for Google Ads

    Does it show you relevant ads? If so, then if you build a website on this niche you will have relevant ads.

    If it shows a bunch of ads that have nothing to do with your niche, skip the niche. Pick another niche. And there you go.
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  • Profile picture of the author run
    I saw Adsense based on my cookies!
    When I have my cookies saved something like PC Backup. Even if I'm browsing a food site, the Adsense ads show the PC Backup related ads.
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  • Profile picture of the author cj20032005
    yukon and paulgl,

    What type of content do you use? I see where you say that you do not need articles for adsense. What do you fill your websites with?

    CJ
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by cj20032005 View Post

      yukon and paulgl,

      What type of content do you use? I see where you say that you do not need articles for adsense. What do you fill your websites with?

      CJ
      Another forum member brought up this old deleted thread, it pretty much sums up what I do with my Adsense sites without writing articles.

      Adsense Reality Check - 5 years & Going Strong!
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  • Profile picture of the author cj20032005
    Good stuff, yukon! Thanks for that.
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  • Profile picture of the author MEDUJEWELRY
    Length of articles is not the key, the keyword Density helps adsense properly target adds. What ever word your trying to traget should come up in a range lets say 2.5% to 5.5% of the time not just some crappy 1000 Word article that you couldn't target a keyword. Also counted for the keyword density is the words not in the article but surrounding it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jsollee
      You are not alone... My Adsense Ads are terrible too! I don't even really know where they got the idea for some of these lame ads that are on my site! Thanks for all the advice guys, I will put it into action!
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  • Profile picture of the author apnavarun
    This is the way google adsense works. They first try to deliver contextual ads however if you have opted for interest based ads then you will see more ads about the topic you are browsed recently.
    I also get the same ads again and again.
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