Google Ad Wrap - Section Targeting

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Updated March 7, 2009.

Section Targeting is a way of embedding special tags inside HTML to give Google's omnipresent spider a better idea of what's important on your page. This is a really simple plugin that wraps posts and comments inside these tags, in the hope that they'll lead to better search rankings.

It does not allow you to specify a weighting.

Just so you know, section targeting tags look like this:

<!-- google_ad_section_start -->

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

Installation is a breeze:

Download google-ad-wrap.zip
Unzip
Upload to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Enable the plugin from your Plugins menu

You can find full details of installing a plugin on the plugin installation page.

This plugin does not guarantee to have any effect whatsoever. Consider it experimental.

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May 29, 2006

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#6526
Marios Alexandrou :
Jun 25, 2006 7:38 am | Reply

Thanks for the plug-in! What are your thoughts on the weighting parameter? Do you think it has to be coded right in to the template files rather than through a plug-in?
#6562
John( author ) :
Jun 26, 2006 5:45 am | Reply

Yes, weighting can only be applied through the template. I'm not sure how much of a difference it will make though - you've already told Google what are the important parts of a page, it seems redundant to then tell it which parts to ignore.
#8710
Ct :
Aug 1, 2006 5:11 am | Reply

Great plugin. Thanks
#9203
aop1980 :
Aug 11, 2006 4:55 pm | Reply

Was wondering if this plugin works to target, for example, the first three blog posts? I'm looking for something that where the ads would target each of the first three posts individually.

thanks
#9248
John( author ) :
Aug 13, 2006 10:22 pm | Reply

It does all posts on a page, so if you only have 3 then that will be it.
#25954
Gerard :
Mar 7, 2007 4:20 am | Reply

Thank You for the plugins. Make a nice mark on my page...
#36745
kateweb :
Oct 14, 2007 9:46 pm | Reply

umm i need a little help getting this to work on my blog think you could help me out a bit ?
#36749
John( author ) :
Oct 14, 2007 10:09 pm | Reply

Hi Kate, what's the problem? The plugin is very simple and requires no additional configuration or special handling - it should be a simple install, activate, and you're set. Looking at your site it seems to be functioning correctly.
#36774
kateweb :
Oct 15, 2007 8:04 am | Reply

as I understand it the plugin is sopose to add adds to the test of blog posts it seems not to have done that ?
#36786
John( author ) :
Oct 15, 2007 10:26 am | Reply

The plugin does not add adverts, it adds section targeting tags (shown at the top of this page) so that Google knows what the content of a page is, as opposed to the rest of the page (navigation etc). When I look at a page on your site I can see these special tags are there. If you want to insert Google adverts you can use something like Sniplets.
#59635
Joe :
Mar 12, 2008 11:17 am | Reply

Does this work in optimising for search engines? or still dont know?
#59639
John( author ) :
Mar 12, 2008 12:30 pm | Reply

Like most things to do with search engines, it may, or may not.
#78183
Dick Hurtz :
May 26, 2008 5:37 pm | Reply

Gee you just might want to include this this rather vital fucking information:





in the ACTUAL download folder with the F**ING PHP file! Ever heard of using a text file and writing "read first" on it? Yes, you can actually include instructions with your plug ins in 2008!
#81401
John( author ) :
Jun 15, 2008 9:27 am | Reply

Dick, I'm sorry you've got your knickers in a bit of a twist there, but what exactly are you complaining about?
#85029
live7n :
Jul 27, 2008 8:41 am | Reply

Nice Idea I am going to use this plugin for experimental purpose
#92574
Safuan :
Oct 26, 2008 6:52 am | Reply

Thanks John, great relieve for me as I'm not proficient with HTML stuff to wrap adsense code. Keep up EXCELLENT work!
#98423
Dave Williams :
Jan 20, 2009 3:51 am | Reply

This plugin is so simple and so powerful. I've just done some tests and the ads I get are way more relevant now! I hope that leads to higher per click prices too. We'll see. I just wanted to make sure to thank you for the mind-boggling'ly simple and yet ever so useful plugin!

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#98985
william :
Jan 29, 2009 5:39 pm | Reply

Thanks for the plugin,will give it a go...but will it target the keywords I want to on that particular post?
- #99166
  John( author ) :
  Feb 1, 2009 11:33 am | Reply
  
  I don't know what you mean?
#103619
Sandeep :
Jun 3, 2009 3:53 am | Reply

Was wondering if this plugin works to target, for example, the first three blog posts? I'm looking for something that where the ads would target each of the first three posts individually.