AdSense “Optimization” Question

I am going to put AdSense on a new site that I am building.

The site is going to be optimized for “Blue Striped Widgets”. How can I make sure that ads appearing on my site are those drawn from sites targeting “Striped Widgets” as oppose to “Blue Striped Widgets” so that they are not direct competitors? Obviously the general subject matter will be the same and that’s OK.

Thank you.

raz

I don't think you can do that yet. Many people would love to have a keyword filter, not just the URL filter, but that's your only choice right now.

Best thing to do is try to get the click for your product before the visitor sees the AdSense ad by having it beneath your offer, and block any competitor's URLs that concern you. You probably won't get all of them, but that's about the only way to cope that I know of.

The best you can hope for is filtering the competition by url. As stated above there really aren't any other tools to make that happen.

I have a retail site and give adsense good position on all but my very best converting pages. I don't filter any of my competitors and am pleased with the results.

don't filter out competitors. If visitors don't buy competitors' products through your site, they'll likely go to the sites other way. You make money out of your competitors, not bad.

Thank you all for the feedback.


I think I’ll try to optimize the home page for “blue striped widgets” and then try and keep the word “blue” to a very minimum in the inside pages and optimize those pages on “striped widgets” (including file name and title) then have the google ads in the inside pages… Hope it works.
raz

You could load the word "blue" from an external js file using document.write.