meta tags and adsense

[Doug]

Would meta tags possibly help adsense better decide what kind of ads to run on a site? On a related note, whenever I insert meta tags on one of my pages, the background color disappears, does anyone know why this happens?

[James]

I don't believe that it can see meta tags; or if it can, then there are some funky things turning up for sites with the word "art" being primary on them.

I can see the background color on both of the pages in your signature, and the Halo 2 Hints site has meta tags.

[r2d2]

I very much doubt it. If they could, people would just fill them with high paying keywords...

[AndyH]

99.9999999% positive they don't.

[Doug]

That's what I don't understand. Halo 2 Hints has meta tags and the page is fine but if I try to put them on Strange Facts the background color disappears, so I took them off. I was hoping adsense looked at them because they aren't really getting good targeted ads for Strange Facts but oh well.

[James]

Then you should put some more keywords in the content on your page. Use the keyword near the ad, too.

[moonshield]

yea, and go into adsense and tell it too avoid listing certain sites.

[Doug]

The problem is with the Strange Facts site. Adsense is reading all the facts and giving ads that won't have a good click through for the site. I want some interesting fact or joke links and it is kind of hard to get too many of those keywords in there.

[advocosoft]

Definitely YES... just visit adsense and see it by yourself.