Problem with my adsense... any advise?

Hi Everyone,

I have a technology and gaming forum, called Prophecy. Now, I'm sure you can all see where the problem comes in. I get almost exclusively religious ads dealing with bible Prophecy and the lot.

I have purchased VBSEO and am on version 3 RC5.

Is there anything I can do to ban the word Prophecy from my
adsense content words so that google does not make use of the word Prophecy to deliver ads to me? It's really irritating, since no-one clicks on any of these ads, and no other ads are really delivered. In fact, it completely pisses off some of my Islam users.

Please help. I'm desperate. This is the second time I'm trying Adsense, after I canned the idea the previous time because of these ads.

Thanks
Firestar

All you can do is ban the sites. Can't ban keywords

I thought so. Is there no way that VBSEO could include such functionality? I mean, it already has the Google Adsense section targeting, which seems to filter out non content from adsense? Could it not exclude words from this targeting somehow?

Thanks
Firestar

Originally Posted by Firestar

I thought so. Is there no way that VBSEO could include such functionality? I mean, it already has the Google Adsense section targeting, which seems to filter out non content from adsense? Could it not exclude words from this targeting somehow?

Thanks
Firestar

Wow, that would be fantastic! Imagine being able to make a list of keywords in the vbseo control panel, then vbseo dynamically adding the adsense ignore tags around those words...

That's what I was thinking. If they already ignore stuff like HTML tags and what not, it should be easy to just ignore content words as well.

That's a very good suggestion actually.

The problem I see with this, is if a bunch of words are on a page all at once, there will be a bunch of the ignore tags.

I'm not sure if there is a set limit to anything like that, in terms of what/how many is 'allowed' and how many makes it look like your trying some anti- keyword spamming so to speak... I'd like to hear an official word from google on this. If someone wants to email them and ask how many ignore tags is too many, and if there are penalties for such, that would be great.

It could also increase the size of the page quite a bit too.

yes, we'd have to set up a code-to-comment ratio

Look, I'm sure there will be problems with such a thing, but ultimately, isn't it still my responsibility to stay within the limits of Google's TOS? For me, I'll add one single ignore word in there. The word Prophecy. It's my forum name, and appear about 10 times on any given page. All of which is outside the content area. This is if the content area is only the contents of posts.

I've already emailed Google to ask if they do not intend to put such a feature into adsense itself. TBH, I cannot think why it may be an illegitimate use of their TOS. I'm getting LOADS of ads that are 100% not to do with my forum contents, and all because my forum name is being picked up as the primary keyword for delivering ads.

I haven't heard a reply from them yet, but I'll post when I do.

Thanks again
Firestar

I just visited your site and notice that you use a vbskinworks template. Now, i'm not bashing on them, as they look nice, but from past experience on here, I can tell you that they are NOT very SE friendly. Be it traffic-wise, or spider-wise. Ultimately, the adsense bot acts the same way... its just a robot crawler.

Try adding in some H1s and H2s to give emphaisis to your content.

I use something like this below my navbar:

Code:

<if condition="$show['forumdesc']">
            <h1 class="descr">$navbits[lastelement]</h1>
       
<else />
           <h1 class="descr">My site name</h1>
</if>

Also, maybe it's just me, but i don't see a single ad on your site. Did you take them down?

I only run them for mods/admins atm, so that I can filter out all the religious ads. However, I've got a filter list the size of texas now, and still lots of them being shown. :(

I'm not sure what you mean with H1 and H2's. Could you explain a bit better? Where do I add this?

<h1> is just an html markup tag for headings. They hold high weight among the SE's, as they are heading groupings.

throw that code in at the end of the nav bar template.

I use a modified version of that on Hondaswap you can see the title of the board or the post or the forum in the middle of the page above the ad block

Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, though. Is this not going to 1) change the apprearance of my website by "bolding" (for lack of a better word) the parts between the <h1> tag and 2) place even more emphasis on my website name (which is exactly the opposite of what I'm trying to accomplish here)?

Or do I have this wrong?

This will use the forum titles and thread titles in the first If block, and the 2nd block, you could put something like "Computer Forums" or something more on-topic.

it will change your site, by displaying them on the page. However, you could use CSS to make a class called descr like i have in the markup to make it not show.

h1.descr { margin-left: -999999px; }