Adsense and ASP.NET problems

[Dimitry]

Hello everyone,

I've been coding a website for the last while that works with ASP.NET 2.0 and runs on a MS SQL Server 2005 DB. The website isn't done at the moment but I can already see issues with potentially the way I've designed the website so far and Adsense.

I'm using a lot of the built in controls in .NET 2.0(such as master page for anyone familiar with it) that afterwards generate ALOT of HTML code. My website will not be heavily content based as it will be a classifieds based website, so only certain sections will have the user posted ads. Those sections, Adsense might still pickup the correct content, but in certain places it's picking up content from the generated HTML code so I'm getting ads such as "UNIX IP xyz configuration" or "DNS Attributes Pipes Connection". Those are just examples off the top of my head, don't mean anything btw, but show what kind of ads I'm getting.

How do I stop Adsense from picking up the code as content?

[tobyhede]

The generated content is all that is visible to AdSense ... it only sees the output of your code.

I have noticed in the past that sometimes it takes a little time for Google to work out the theme of your site ... it examines the content over time and the ads get more and more relevant.

[Dimitry]

Ok, so it does "adapt" in some sense or another though. That's all I'm really concerned about at the end of the day.

I guess I'll just wait and see and if anything contact google for support.

Thanks for your reply.

[Josip]

Hi Dimitry,

maybe you can solve your problem with AdSense Section Targeting, with tag:

<!-- google_ad_section_start -->

This is the targeted text of your web page. Most of your content resides here.

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

and tag:

<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->

ignoring this unwanted content

<!-- google_ad_section_end(weight=ignore) -->


Hope this was helpful ,

Regards

[Dimitry]

Originally Posted by Josip

Hi Dimitry,

maybe you can solve your problem with AdSense Section Targeting, with tag:

<!-- google_ad_section_start -->

This is the targeted text of your web page. Most of your content resides here.

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

and tag:

<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->

ignoring this unwanted content

<!-- google_ad_section_end(weight=ignore) -->


Hope this was helpful ,

Regards

Josip, thanks! I'll give it a shot.

[Alexander Trakhimenok]

Hi Dmitry,

If you are developing a website using ASP.NET and going to place Google AdSense units may be you'll be interesting to use my free ASP.NET 2.0 web controls to render Google AdSense code.

http://AdSenseASP.NET/ - free ASP.NET 2.0 WebControls for publishers uses Google AdSense

It has configuration module so you could specify AdSense parameters like AdSense publisher ID, AdSense channels, colors in web.config so no need to setup it for every page & unit and easy to manage & quick to change.

There is a live demo on website so you could test it prior to downloading.

Best luck with you classifieds - I'm gonna do something similar as well.

[Dimitry]

Alexander, thanks! I'll definately take a look at it. It's controls like these that are really helping me move my site forward.

I implemented the suggestion by Josip and saw some improvent, since I don't get general ads anymore (and ads like "Unix servers"). But my ads are general ads for other classified website advertisers instead of the content that my users post. I.e, if a user says that they are selling antiques and lists off a whole bunch of antique stuff, I was hoping it would pick that up and display content as ads to the users.

I'll probably contact Google once my site is developed.