Get A Targeted Google Adsense Ad With A Special Google Code

If you play with Google Adsense, sometimes you’ll notice that your advertisement appearing in your ad-box is not related to your content. This puts people off, especially when they land on your page from search engines searching with a specific keyword or key-phrase to grab information as quickly as possible. When they finish reading your information, and need more info, you would want them to click on your strategically placed Adsense ad. If your advertisement has no relationship with the content of your post, there is only a small chance your visitor will click your advertisement.

Google scans all the content on a webpage to determine what Adsense ad should appear on it. If your Adsense ad appears irrelevant to your post, then probably what Google sees in your post is not keyword specific enough for it to target.

To overcome this situation, actually Google has a keyword code to include or exclude any portion of your post.
You can use a code:
 google_ad_section_start and google_ad_section_end. The emphasized section is usually in the Google Ad Section.

METHOD:

To implement this code is easy. You can edit your html or php code and insert the code there like this:
<!– google_ad_section_start –>
[your emphasized code where your post exist]

<!– google_ad_section_end –>

FOR A WORDPRESS BLOG

This code may still be confusing for a beginner. A real example in a Wordpress blog follows:

For wordpress blog, your post code will be <?php the_content() ?>. This can be found in Single.php file
So go to Wordpress Dashboard / Appearance / Editor and choose Single Post (single.php) in the extreme right column.

1.    Search the_content() code
2.    Insert Google Ad Section code before and after content code.
3.    The overall code might looks like this

<!– google_ad_section_start — >
<?php the_content() ?>
<!– google_ad_section_end –>

That’s if you want to emphasize your content for Google Ad section. If you want another section to be emphasized you’ll target that area.

Now, If you want to exclude some section, just give a little addition in that code, which is like this:

<!– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –>
Your final code will be like this:
<!– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –>
the section you want to ignore
<!– google_ad_section_end(weight=ignore) –>

TROUBLESHOOTING

1.    Before you change your code, make sure that you copy original code to Notepad. If something goes wrong, you can go back to your original copy.
2.    Everything in <!– and –> is perceived as comment. So, it should be okay and won’t hurt your code or your blog appearance. It’s not visible. But if you experience error in saving the code, there may be a possibility you incorrectly typed your code. Just copy the code above and paste it.
3.    If your Google Adsense ad still serves unrelated ads, maybe an indication of incorrect input of your code; or, you should wait about 10 minutes to see the implementation of the change from Google’s side. If after 10 minutes it’s still wrong, check your code again.
4.    If the code is correct, then there is a possibility that no related Adsense ads are there for your targeted keyword.

YOU SHOULD NOT DO THIS IF…..!

This inclusion/exclusion feature should only be used to emphasize significant sections in a page. It is against Google’s policies to manipulate the ad targeting to result in ads that are not relevant to the content of your pages. You can be banned.