Leaky basement but tight design

[max]

I have had some trouble with water in my basement and as a result, I happened upon this site. It seems to be designed quite well. How are ads served on topic when there is so little content?
http://www.basement-waterproofing-help.co.uk/

[Chuck Brown]

It seems to be designed quite well. How are ads served on topic when there is so little content?

Designed quite well? You must be looking at a different site than I am. That, my friend, is a pretty good example of Adsense spam. No original content. All the internal links eventually lead off site. No value whatsoever.

But, in answer to your question...look at the ads generated by your little 2-3 line post. Adsense works with what it has to work with. Ain't much there, but the topic is pretty clear.

Doesn't make that site worth emulating, however.

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[max]

Designed quite well? You must be looking at a different site than I am. That, my friend, is a pretty good example of Adsense spam. No original content. All the internal links eventually lead off site. No value whatsoever.

But, in answer to your question...look at the ads generated by your little 2-3 line post. Adsense works with what it has to work with. Ain't much there, but the topic is pretty clear.

Doesn't make that site worth emulating, however.

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I thought a site created for the sole purpose of displaying ads was a violation of the TOS?

[Sbabb]

On the design issue, the layout and graphic design of the site aren't to my taste. Sizes and alignments are off and the usage of whitespace is very strange. It "feels" very disjointed to me. There are also things that look like links but aren't. What's that image over on the right doing there?

As far as AdSense design goes, it's semi-OK, but the integration could be better. I'd tighten up the vertical space and reformat those "looks like a link but is really a section header of sorts" lines to integrate better.

As far as the content goes, it's not to my taste, either. I think that directory sites have some value, but I'd rather include unique content of my own making (others might pay to have that content created, but it's unique content, regardless.) I don't know that I'd call a directory site "spam" because there is some small value to it. Yahoo, dmoz, and Google basically have no unique content of their own, but nobody accuses them of being spam. And there are thousands of other directories around the Internet, some very specialized. So, "yes" there is some value to this tiny, specialized directory site, but it's not what I choose to do.

Like Chuck said, AdSense works with whatever clues it finds on the page text. I suspect that if you created a page that has a single line of text saying "asbestos lawyer" and an AdSense block, you'd get all of those wonderful, expensive asbestos lawyer and mesothelioma ads. Then you'd probably get banned :rolleyes:


Scott