Google Adsense Optimizing

Have you ever noticed your website showing advertisements that don’t have to do with your content? You can have some great articles - but without optimizing your site for Adsense, you could be displaying ads that aren’t of any value to viewers.

To optimize your site, it is as simple as putting two HTML comment tags around the content of your site. So if you have a template, it’s very easy! Simply wrap your content with the following tags:

<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

Of course you would put the google_ad_section_start tag at the top of your content, and the google_ad_section_end tag at the bottom of your content.

If you need an example, just view the source of this page and search the html for the comment tag.

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2 comments

  1. See my profile on MyBlogLog.com! James Mitchell Says:
    January 11th, 2006 at 9:34 am

    Thanks for the tip, my only question would be why?

    Why does putting commented out tags help? Does Google look for those things? Inquiring minds want to know ;)

  2. See my profile on MyBlogLog.com! Tim Linden Says:
    January 13th, 2006 at 4:40 pm

    Of course Google looks for these tags. You can read their page about section targetting here. Note there are other tags to denote where to ignore too, however with blogs you’d only need to worry about telling it where the post is (otherwise all the ads will be about blogs).