Adsense best topics

[dogshed]

What is the best way to include an adsense ad?
I want the ads to match the topics in each posting
and not my header.
-Jeff

[carl_galloway]

Contextual adsense ads are a funny beast. They do work but on blogs they can take a long time to start working properly. In a nutshell if your entry title contains the same key works as your entry then each detail page should have the correct contextual ads. Overview pages are different because the adsense robot only visits your site at set intervals which for most blogs seems to be several days and maybe longer. Also because the overview page changes so often, adsense may not find any ads that correspond to your first entry, so you get ads that seem out of place. You probably just need to persevere, keep adding entries that are related to the needs of your site visitors, and try to get as many visitors as you can, and don't fall into the hype about PR or backlinks for your adsense, it doesn't seem to matter much on blogs. It might if you were getting millions of visitors per month, but not at the level of most blogs.

[dogshed]

I've got a nugget on the left side. Where will it pick up the words?
Only from the title at the top?
The title of each brief entry?
-Jeff

[Elaine]

My google adsense - which currently just exists for my own amusement, not an actual money making tool - took a few days before it started picking up words from my entries. Now, it's pretty funny what it notices

[Harald Weingaertner]

You guys should maybe thnik about using tages like

<!-- google_ad_section_start -->

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

somewhere in your .tpl files.

[Elaine]

Harold,

ahh, you mean defining a section of text that the goole ads will use to determine the ads? So that the ads are based off content I decide rather than random blog entry content? Is that what you mean?

Or do you mean including more?

wondering,
Elaine

[Harald Weingaertner]

Harold,

ahh, you mean defining a section of text that the goole ads will use to determine the ads? So that the ads are based off content I decide rather than random blog entry content? Is that what you mean?

Or do you mean including more?

wondering,
Elaine

Elaine, that was what i wanted to say

I use those tags and do not see any "Host your blog at *.*" anymore. My impression is, that those tags really work. But you will find 100 opinions relating google ads My hint is to use them.

PS: Changes can take 2 weeks until google ads change the ads. I have the

<- google start -> thing onto the first line of my entries.tpl and the <- google end -> thing is my last line of my entries.tpl