Sunday, February 22, 2009

How do I stop google adsense from basing the ads they serve on one word in my blog?

Ok, I'm really fed up. I've been blocking domain after domain from google adsense on this blog, and they keep serving up plumbing and physical underground services for this clearly computer technology related blog. Why? They seem fixated on "underground" in the title of this blog.

So, how on earth do I get google adsense to ignore a specific word in a blog, for serving up ads? Of course, none of my readers are clicking on the ads they're serving. This is a tech blog, not a plumbing blog! I'm seriously considering dropping adsense altogether, in favor of ad servers that serve up relevant ads and actually generate some revenue. So far, I think I've earned about $2 in the past year, from google adsense. It's a good thing I'm not writing for the money.

2 comments:

Florian said...

Have you tried section targeting?

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=23168

Tony Fendall said...

I had the same problem as you when my flex blog was covered in mortgage adverts because it has 'house' in the domain name.

I never found a solution to the adsense problem, but I did eventually switch to text-link-ads.com which give me a 10 fold increase in revenue.

I strongly recommend checking them out.