How to Help Google Make up its Mind

By Diane Nassy | Open Tips

As an AdSense sponsoring web site, your goal is to have contextually relevant ads displayed whenever a visitor comes to your site. Thats the goal, and it sounds simple enough, but sometimes it seems that Google is bent on not cooperating with you in the least.

If there are times when your web site is displaying apparently random ads which have no relevance to your site at all or worse, its displaying non-revenue Public Service Ads (PSA), then thats a sign that you need to work harder to help Google make up its mind.

Google uses a pretty effective set of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to sniff the content on your site so it can serve up the most relevant ads out of its extensive inventory. However, since no humans are involved in this process, its actually pretty easy to lead the poor spider down the wrong path.

Its not enough to simply depend upon your sites keywords to pull the right ads from Google; you have to pay attention to the context in which the key words are used as well or you could get some surprises.

For example, suppose that you have some text on your page that reads I love Guns N Roses. There is a good chance that you will either end up with PSAs, because Guns is a known Google stop word that triggers PSAs, or ads from 1-800-Flowers thanks to the key word Roses. But if you modify your content slightly to have it read something like I love the heavy metal and hard rock bands like Guns N Roses, then you should start pulling ads that match your sites theme.

The words heavy metal and hard rock are called supporting keywords. Their job is to help define the context that the actual key word is being used in.

When the Google spiders are fed both supporting and actual key words they are better able to make the right decisions on your behalf.

The position of your key words also plays a part in pulling the right ads. Words that are closer to the top of the page have more weight than those that appear farther down. Tags are also important. H1 and H 2 tags have a higher precedence over P tags, and B tags are significant as well.

The key to getting the right ads to appear on your site is to fine-tune the supporting key words and tweak your tags until you are seeing what you want to see.

Once you reach that goal, you can read our article on Smart Ways to Attract Higher Paying AdSense Ads, and Tips for Maximizing Your Google AdSense Revenues for even better results.

Sometimes it seems that the Google spider is doing all it can to not get along with you. The next time you have that thought, stop to consider the possibility that the Google spider is having the same thoughts about you!

About the Author:

Diane provides marketing and internet profit tips.
For more Google AdSense tips, visit http://www.adsense.deeljeabiz.com
Email : deeljeabiz@gmail.com

About this site:

Open Tips website is developed using SEO Web Design by Binh Nguyen to provide free tips and advices from well known experts.

What's next?

Do you like "How to Help Google Make up its Mind"?

Link to this page:

  • Step 1: Copy the following HTML code (Click on the box and press Ctrl+C):
  • Step 2: Paste the copied code to your web page's HTML (Ctrl+V) to where you want to place the link.
  • Step 3: When viewing on a web browser it should look like this: How to Help Google Make up its Mind.

Share it: Digg Digg del.icio.us del.icio.us FURL FURL Reddit Reddit Yahoo!Yahoo! Favorites Favorites

Featured Tips for Google

Article Banks and Google Alerts Harness Your Publishing Power

Content is the currency fueling the Internet. Yet, article banks, repositories for authors to promote their content, are still the Internet’s best-kept secret. I learned about article banks through a...

How to Build Massive Keyword Lists - Part 1

As keyword marketing becomes more and more expensive and competitive, it has become essential when building your lists to focus on the maximum number of phrases and their variations that a surfer...

Understanding what Reciprocal Linking means

Copyright 2004 Dirk Wagner If you have been marketing on the internet for any length of time you have surely heard that reciprocal linking is a great way to boost your google page rank as well as...

Internet Visibility

The definition: Dictionary.com says that visibility is the fact, state, or degree of being visible and says that the internet is an interconnected system of networks that connects computers around...

3 Deadly Search Engine Marketing Sins

Copyright 2004 John Gergye My inbox this week provided glaring examples of three all too common rookie search engine marketing mistakes. What you could call three deadly search engine marketing sins....

Back to top