Fellow BHW member in need!

**delspon** · 02-04-2012, 05:22 AM

Hi,
I've been working my a$$ off the past 4 months making a completely original music blog. I have 280+ unique posts/articles and over 350 indexed pages on Google. Some of my posts are ranking well in Google... I'm getting ~100+ unique views per day and ~200+ page loads per day.
This seems all well and good, but I have a ZERO CTR ON ADSENSE! Lol. So I found an ad-checker tool, and i ran it on my domain. At least half of the ads I saw were in GERMAN and the rest we're about selling mp3 players! My domain name has musik instead of music so I think thats why. Anyway, I blocked all the domains that I saw coming form Germany (although I'm sure there are more) in an attempt to make my ads more relevant. Can you guys help me pls? Losing faith.

**jascoken** · 02-04-2012, 10:00 AM

AdSense normally seems to prioritise on the URL and PageTitle, with some weight on the H tags...

Just be sure that your on-page content stucture is allowing the bot to find the correct market/niche; and it's not being masked/over shadowed in any way.

**orlandolongwood** · 02-04-2012, 11:31 AM

Are you setting your site's language?

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" />

Code:

<html lang="en">

Code:

In .htaccess:
  DefaultLanguage en-US

**delspon** · 02-04-2012, 05:16 PM

orlandolongwood, those are some great insights that I never even thought to do because I assumed Google would see all my content. I've added the html into index.php, archive.php, post.php, and header.php as well as editing the .htaccess file. We'll see..

EDIT: adding these things to some files completely mangled up my theme, so I just took everything out and left it only within header.php. This fixed the problem, and I'm assuming that each time a .php file loads it's calling 'get_header()' so the language info will be included in that fetch of header.php? Please let me know if I'm right or wrong on this. Thanks