{"id":738,"date":"2006-11-02T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=738"},"modified":"2006-11-02T15:38:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T20:38:38","slug":"ad-senseless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Ad Senseless"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I decided to try GoogleAds on this site. They are ugly, but small and easy to use.<\/p>\n

Since last night the dang thing has been advertising zoot suits, stilts, and nutrition guides. What the heck? Is it that hard for them to figure out what my site is all about? Do the words Geek Culture<\/em>, RolePlaying<\/em>, anime<\/em>, and Videogames<\/em> not ring a bell? Those words are on every page, and every image is tagged accordingly. This site has a decent focus and there is just no reason the targeting should be so totally off. <\/p>\n

I’ll give it another day or two, but if it’s still advertising random stuff nobody cares about then I’ll pull the ad. Since GA doesn’t offer any direct way to guide the content, the only thing it has to go on is the text on my site. If it can’t make sense of that, then the whole thing is useless.<\/p>\n

I mean, z00t suits<\/em>? Crimey.<\/p>\n

LATER: They already have all of my text cached, so the content of the front page shouldn’t matter. But just in case it does, let’s see if this does anything: <\/p>\n

Doom videogame Dreamfall Atari Rollercoaster Roleplaying Dice Cosplay Anime Geeks Oblivion. Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition Monster Manual Player’s Guide. Video game Gamecube Sony Playstation XBox 360 Nintendo DS and Mario. Gameplay Dual Shock Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King. Manga comics. Spiderman and X-Man. Marvel comics. Videogame movie adaptations. Star Wars lightsabers and lightsaberbattles. The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Harry Potter. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, books, movie, and radio series. Myst, Quake, Riven, Doom3, Bethesda, Warcraft and MMORPG. RTS games and first-person shooters. Diablo. World of Warcraft, Geek Dice, Roleplaying Dice, Colored Dice, metal dice, plastic dice, 20-sided dice. Wizards, Gnomes, Fighters, Clerics. Dork Tower and Penny Arcade. Optimus Rhyme. Otaku’s favorite anime series. Haibane Renmei and sometimes Cowboy Bebop. Chibi characters and harem comedies.<\/i><\/small><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Wow. That was like having Geek Tourette’s Syndrome.<\/p>\n

If it can’t find my target demographic from that then the thing isn’t worth the 28,800 pixels I’m letting it use on my page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I decided to try GoogleAds on this site. They are ugly, but small and easy to use. Since last night the dang thing has been advertising zoot suits, stilts, and nutrition guides. What the heck? Is it that hard for them to figure out what my site is all about? Do the words Geek […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}