Adsense relevance problem on main page only ?!!

GiorgosK · 04-05-2007, 02:47 AM

I have the blog http://geoland.org about web development design and SEO
and I write original content in it

The adsense on the main page does not get any relevant ads for some time now

today I noticed that at least when I go to
http://geoland.org/2007/04/disaster-recovery-backup/
it does get relevant ads

Anybody can offer a hint ?

Thanks in advance

ghostzer · 04-08-2007, 02:45 AM

my short answer is: is there enough text for google to lock onto on that main page? if not, write some more, throw in keywords - google is stupid, and that is the bottom line (not to be insulting, but it is true). so help it out.

GiorgosK · 04-08-2007, 10:47 AM

Maybe google is stupid as you say but the fact is there is A LOT of text on the main page and probably its overwhelming for google.

Perhaps you should also try to take a look before answering a question
(I provided a link and its clear that there is actually lots of text there)

It usually displays some ad about "adsense" and another one about "GIS".
The word "GIS" is never mentioned in the text or implied from other words ... ?!

raugusto · 04-08-2007, 05:12 PM

the problem could start in the title: web, life, .....that should not targeted with the websites's content...

change to "web development design and SEO" and see the differences.

GiorgosK · 04-09-2007, 10:21 AM

I guess you are right Raugusto but I wanted a cool Slogan !!!

raugusto · 04-09-2007, 11:33 AM

the title plays an important role in SEO and adsense targeting. Try to change it for a while and see the diference...You can place the slogan in the header picture.

EBORG9 · 04-09-2007, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GiorgosK

Maybe google is stupid as you say but the fact is there is A LOT of text on the main page and probably its overwhelming for google.

Perhaps you should also try to take a look before answering a question
(I provided a link and its clear that there is actually lots of text there)

It usually displays some ad about "adsense" and another one about "GIS".
The word "GIS" is never mentioned in the text or implied from other words ... ?!

No offense, but you cannot overwhelm Google with a simple blog with only 46 pages of text indexed.

I've been blogging for 30 days and I have 5 times the content, trust me, it's not "overwhelming".

Another reason could be that your blog has the same subject matter, and I am sure some matching text as about 200,000 other blogs.
It may be self written, but it is not original content.
That may be a big problem.

Original content gets noticed. I am not saying you shouldn't write about what you want, but don't get all indignant because the largest most advanced search engine in the world in the short history of the internet, has not fallen all over you for yet another Web Design, SEO blog.

Original updated content drives traffic. All the SEO in the world can not compensate for having the same subject matter as every other blog on the web.
JMO

GiorgosK · 04-10-2007, 12:08 AM

EBORG9
I never spoke about traffic, it was only a question about maybe having less content on the main page - maybe less posts - and I was not comparing it to anybody's amount of content ?!.

EBORG9 · 04-10-2007, 01:06 AM

I know, but, at some point you are going to have to recognize that you may not be getting the love you think you deserve because there are so many blogs about the same thing.
Most of the blogs about what you are blogging about are the same.
You cannot continue to get recognized by the spiders as having original content, when it is not.
The massive amount of bloggers writing the same subject is just canceling each other out.

Yes there are many duplicate sites on the web, but there are literally thousands upon thousands of websites and blogs that are posting the same content because they are feeding from each other for information. Other industry sites have a variety of subject matter to write about, and the odds of massive duplicate content are quite high, but in the field of SEO, it is the same content.

Have you ever read another SEO blog. Take 5 and read 5 posts from each. You will see the exact same things repeated, over and over again.

And when there is a new development, everybody posts it at the same time, mainly from the same source.
Without having developed a new mathematical algorithm, there is no original content in this field.
I am just saying that your problem that you and so many others keep posting about is not the amount of text, it's the frequency of the repetitive of the words all over the web.

I am surprised that so many SEO people have never figured this out.

Honestly, how many SEO, Web Development, Adsense blogs are there on the web?
Hundreds of thousands! At some point the constant repetition of the same algorithm, over and over again, has to lose its effectiveness.

I could be wrong. JMO.
I think your amount of content is fine, and not your problem.

GiorgosK · 04-10-2007, 05:47 AM

I don't suppose you are wrong in general sense but each one is writing the topics he/she is comfortable about and those are my topics

I have hard time writing about stuff that I like, I would think its impossible to write about stuff I don't care about.

Still my topics are more on web development and not SEO so there is some more room of writing fresh content, and if you have noticed I am not making any announcements about such and such product release or such and such service.
I don't enjoy those posts.
The stuff I write about either I developed or found usefull (otherwise I don't find any value in posting them) so it is unique no matter what you say.
If I find/develop/discover something and do a search and realize that someone else has written about it I lose interest to write about it. That is the reason I only have 9 or so posts in 3 months.

(Heck, Its been almost 3 months in V7 and I have not posted more than 50 posts because that is my nature to post something of value or a genuine question or anwser or nothing at all)

EBORG9 · 04-10-2007, 09:18 AM

That's very good. At least someone understands it, and I am not crazy.
I have noticed with my own site, that as I developed more content, (and I have a lot of subpages) with appropriate tagging, my traffic has increased from different areas.
Some people say that you should have the adsense center or top page, so they are visible when the page loads, to increase the visibility of them, and that may help a little.

My personal opinion is if it is in with the text, you are asking people to make a choice of not reading what you have written, or ignore the ads all together to continue reading.

Maybe if you separate them from the middle of the body of the text, it will increase the probability of clicking them, because it is not conflicting.

I don't have any adsense on my blog, so I can't tell you from experience, but I would be more than happy to share what has worked with traffic over the last month.