My Adsense ads have nothing to do with fourm content, how to make them better

[kobescoresagain]

I am designing my forum, yesterday I put adense on it, I am getting alot of stuff that has nothign to do with my site. Because it is still getting developed I don't ahve many posts. With more posts will it change my content?
Thanks
Joseph Hughes

http://www.sportscardfreaks.com

[SaintDog]

Contextual ads require content to generate relavent ads targetted to your website. Since your forum is current starting out, there isn't a great deal of content available for the AdSense spider to crawl and cover. Once you generate a great deal more content, you will begin to see the ads rotate, alternate and begin showing more content-specific ads.

The best option is to also place them where content is located. The leadboard ads work well, from what I've seen, near the top as you've placed it, however there is little content near the top as well.

[kobescoresagain]

Okay, so as my content grows they should improve, is there anything I should do to increase the possibility of getting accurate ads?

[SaintDog]

1). As you expand your content, the ads will display more relavent ads for you, however you will need more content such as new threads, posts and other such items. Forum titles, names and so forth won't give you too much .

2). Place the ads in targetted areas where content is dominate. I've found that placing an ad on the left side of the page (i.e. left column) works and provides targetted ads. The leaderboard works just as well, give there is enough content to spider. It's all in the placement. Don't place ads where there's little to no content else AdSense will fill it with the standard ads.

[Damian]

You might want to try section targeting.
From Google:
Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you'd like us to emphasize or downplay when matching ads to your site's content.

Use it to ignore areas like the navbar text, and emphasize content like the postbit message.