That's good ice cream...

If you've noticed that there's a google ad strip below the blog name, you've probably seen some ads for nicotine patches and now for items related to dog liver problems. I emailed google since these items didn't necessarily fit the blog theme (if there is one) and received in response the answer to my question. These ads are related to key words in the blog writing. So with that in mind, allow me to place some key words in my blog. Free Airfare, Free travel, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns, Disney, Comic Books, Movies, DVD, Animation, Animation art, pharmaceutical jobs. There! Now, let's see if the ads change to something more eye pleasing. Not that it matters - no one clicks on those anyway, I think. But, I'd like to see less of the old ads and more of my interests. By the way, the photo above is another from our weekend in NJ.

One more time: Free Airfare, Free travel, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns, Disney, Comic Books, Movies, DVD, Animation, Animation art, pharmaceutical jobs. Free Airfare, Free travel, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns, Disney, Comic Books, Movies, DVD, Animation, Animation art, pharmaceutical jobs. Free Airfare, Free travel, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns, Disney, Comic Books, Movies, DVD, Animation, Animation art, pharmaceutical jobs. Free Airfare, Free travel, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns, Disney, Comic Books, Movies, DVD, Animation, Animation art, pharmaceutical jobs. Free Airfare, Free travel, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns, Disney, Comic Books, Movies, DVD, Animation, Animation art, pharmaceutical jobs. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Now, I'm having fun!!!!!!!


Here's the original email reply from Google:

Hello Nicotine,

The ads displayed on a web page are determined automatically by our system based
on the content of that page.

Currently, the information on your site is fairly generic and not targeted
towards a specific topic. As the name 'Nicotine' is mentioned repeatedly on your
site, AdSense thinks that due to a lack of other clear topics, 'smoking' is the
topic of your page.

I'd recommend that you include more text-based content about specific targeted
topics on your website, including complete sentences and paragraphs, to assist
our crawlers in gathering information about your pages and determining relevant
ads to display. Please note that it may take up to 1 or 2 weeks before any
changes you make have an effect on your ad targeting.


For additional questions, please visit our AdSense Support site at
https://www.google.com/support/adsense or feel free to reply to this email.

We'd also like to encourage you to let us know how we can improve our customer
support. Please take a few minutes to fill out our brief survey at
http://www.insightexpress.com/s/Google.asp?uid=0&resetposition=true.

Your input is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Pim
The Google AdSense Team