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bennett
08-26-2005, 05:03 PM
As you know, when Google parses your site, it tries to determine what types of ads to display based on keywords that appear on your page. Is there a supported way to override the keywords that Google assigns to your site, to display whatever kind of ads you want?

I have AdSense ads on http://www.AttackCensorship.com/ , which is just an Anonymizer clone. As such, it's not really relevant to any particular type of content, so I figured I might as well get the ads that pay the best, so I put the word "mortgage" in the name of the CGI script so that AdSense would display mortgage ads. Even if I had a site about a particular type of content like weddings, what if I discovered that I could make more money by displaying mortgage ads? (Fewer people would click, but I'd make more money per click.) As far as I can tell, Google doesn't have any rules in their Terms of Service against trying to fool the parser about what kind of ads to display. It's hard to see why they would mind anyway -- if you are overriding the default keyword parsing and making more money that way, then Google is making more money, too.

So, is there any "supported" way to tell Google, "On this URL, I want ads displayed for this keyword, regardless of how the page is parsed"? Any sign that Google might add this eventually, or that they have explicitly said they do not support doing this?

Bobette Kyle
08-26-2005, 06:29 PM
I had some pages that were serving ads that weren't about the content of the pages a while back. I wrote AdSense about it...they somehow fixed it. How about writing support, explaining what you'd like to do, and see if they can tell you a way to adjust the ads served? That way you would know for sure if they mind or not, plus if they don't mind you'd get your answer, too.