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I’ve recently been exposed to this tag which informs the mediabot for Adsense where in your site, it should search for relevant keywords for displaying ads. It looks something like this:

 

<!� google_ad_section_start �>
� targeted content here �.
<!� google_ad_section_end �>

I think on this blog, since it’s focussed almost exclusively on SEO or Adsense, most ads displayed are of those nature but the code could be very useful for personal blog owners, who normally writes whatever that comes to their mind and usually have lotsa links on their sidebars. Other good candidates for this code would be forums where you can target a specific part of the discussion for the ads to show.

I’ve done abit of research as well to see how it has affected other website owners and these are some of their comments:

 

Useful only for blogs and forums

You need to include quite abit of content so that mediabot can detect that you’re not trying to cheat the system

It’s important to include the title within the tags and they should also include both posts and user comments

Doesn’t work for all blogs/forums/sites. You’ll need to experiment with it.

Should exclude sidebars, headers, footers of a blog.

Google may take up to 2 weeks to notice the tags, and it doesn’t guarantee the results

You are allowed to use more than one set of the tags

Also, before I forget, there’s also an option to ignore parts of the site, this will be particularly useful if you do not want a certain part of your blog/forum/site to be searched for keywords

 

<!– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –>
…content…
<!� google_ad_section_end �>

So if you’ve decided to try this method, I’ll try to give some pointers on the implementation in blogs and forums but since templates might defer, this is just a general guide:

Wordpress

The easiest way is to install this plugin called “Google Ad Wrap” by John of Urban Giraffe. Activate it and it’ll automatically include all your comments and main post within the tags. No messy code editing.

BlogSpot

In your template, search for the term $BlogItemBody$, then include your tags as follows:

 

<!� google_ad_section_start �>
<$BlogItemBody$>
<!� google_ad_section_end �>

*Noted from Digital Inspiration.

PhpBB

I’m just showing one example for the topic pages here. For this example, I’m editing the file called viewtopic_body.tpl:

Find:

 

<a class=“maintitle” href=“{U_VIEW_TOPIC}”>{TOPIC_TITLE}</a>

Replace:

 

<!– google_ad_section_start–><a class=“maintitle” href=“{U_VIEW_TOPIC}”>{TOPIC_TITLE}</a><!– google_ad_section_end–>

Find:

 

<td colspan=“2″><span class=“postbody”>{postrow.MESSAGE}{postrow.SIGNATURE}</span><span class=“gensmall”>{postrow.EDITED_MESSAGE}</span></td>

Replace:

 

<!– google_ad_section_start–>
<td colspan=“2″><span class=“postbody”>{postrow.MESSAGE}{postrow.SIGNATURE}</span><span class=“gensmall”>{postrow.EDITED_MESSAGE}</span></td>
<!– google_ad_section_end–>

That’s it for now, if you want you can tell me if it really works on your site in the comments section!

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