Google Ad Wrap – Section Targeting

Download:	Google Ad Wrap
Version:	1.1
Supports:	WordPress 1.2 – 3.1.1
Other:	WordPress.org \| SVN

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.

238 Responses to Google Ad Wrap – Section Targeting

Marios Alexandrou on June 25, 2006 at 7:38 am said:

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?

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John on June 26, 2006 at 5:45 am said:

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.

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Ct on August 1, 2006 at 5:11 am said:

Great plugin. Thanks

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aop1980 on August 11, 2006 at 4:55 pm said:

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

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John on August 13, 2006 at 10:22 pm said:

It does all posts on a page, so if you only have 3 then that will be it.

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Gerard on March 7, 2007 at 4:20 am said:

Thank You for the plugins. Make a nice mark on my page…

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kateweb on October 14, 2007 at 9:46 pm said:

umm i need a little help getting this to work on my blog think you could help me out a bit ?

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John on October 14, 2007 at 10:09 pm said:

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.

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kateweb on October 15, 2007 at 8:04 am said:

as I understand it the plugin is sopose to add adds to the test of blog posts it seems not to have done that ?

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John on October 15, 2007 at 10:26 am said:

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.

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Joe on March 12, 2008 at 11:17 am said:

Does this work in optimising for search engines? or still dont know?

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John on March 12, 2008 at 12:30 pm said:

Like most things to do with search engines, it may, or may not.

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Dick Hurtz on May 26, 2008 at 5:37 pm said:

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

<!– google_ad_section_start –>

<!– google_ad_section_end –>

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!

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John on June 15, 2008 at 9:27 am said:

Dick, I’m sorry you’ve got your knickers in a bit of a twist there, but what exactly are you complaining about?

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live7n on July 27, 2008 at 8:41 am said:

Nice Idea I am going to use this plugin for experimental purpose

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Safuan on October 26, 2008 at 6:52 am said:

Thanks John, great relieve for me as I’m not proficient with HTML stuff to wrap adsense code. Keep up EXCELLENT work!

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Dave Williams on January 20, 2009 at 3:51 am said:

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!

You need something from my site? It’s yours, just ask.

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william on January 29, 2009 at 5:39 pm said:

Thanks for the plugin,will give it a go…but will it target the keywords I want to on that particular post?

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- John on February 1, 2009 at 11:33 am said:
  
  I don’t know what you mean?
  
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Sandeep on June 3, 2009 at 3:53 am said:

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.

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Kovancılar on February 8, 2010 at 1:36 pm said:

Thanks John, great relieve for me as I’m not proficient with HTML stuff to wrap adsense code.

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evlilik on July 9, 2010 at 4:17 pm said:

Thank You John for the plugins.

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Pande on July 26, 2010 at 5:54 am said:

Hi John:
I can’t see the sections in my WP 3.0 (TwentyTen 1.0).
Is it compatible with 3.0?
Thanks.

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- John on July 28, 2010 at 10:55 am said:
  
  There is no reason it shouldn’t be compatible – it’s a simple plugin
  
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Stephen on August 8, 2010 at 9:15 pm said:

So where are these tags getting placed in my sites code?

I would have thought it would place them in my Single Post (single.php) file, but when I do a search for these Google tags their not there after downloading and activating this plug-in.

Stephen

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- John on September 5, 2010 at 8:52 am said:
  
  They appear before and after your post content
  
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Alem Fm on November 27, 2010 at 12:40 pm said:

I can’t see the sections in my WP 3.0 (TwentyTen 1.0). Is it
compatible with 3.0? Thanks.

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- John on November 27, 2010 at 1:14 pm said:
  
  Yes it is
  
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Sid on February 26, 2011 at 4:50 pm said:

Hi,

I love this plugin! However, even after updating to the version 1.1, Google Ad Wrap still shows “There is a new version of Google Ad Wrap available.”

I am using WP 3.1, perhaps you should look at it.

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Driver indir on April 18, 2011 at 8:10 pm said:

Thanks John, great relieve for me as I’m not proficient with HTML stuff to wrap adsense code.

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MonkeyBoy on April 26, 2011 at 4:40 am said:

Thanks John, it appears that your magical plugin has aided my quest to improve the remote chances of my site earning money.

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Michael on April 27, 2011 at 4:09 pm said:

John, great plug-in! I have a question that I haven’t seen answered yet: how many times can you use the tags in one post. For example, if I wrap two different sentences in one article, will the plug-in help target the ads based on both wrappings? Or do I need to select the single most important section to wrap?

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- John on April 28, 2011 at 1:36 pm said:
  
  You don’t need to do anything – the plugin wraps everything for you.
  
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David AuBuchon on June 21, 2011 at 11:39 pm said:

Can you clarify what this plugin does? So if I install it, it will effectively go back and automatically put section targeting tags around the posts and comments of all the posts I have on my blog thus far ? (as well as those I am yet to write?)

Thanks,
~Davd

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- John on July 2, 2011 at 6:40 pm said:
  
  Yes, that is correct.
  
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health articles on July 5, 2011 at 12:16 am said:

Hi,

I love this plugin! However, even after updating to the version 1.1, Google Ad Wrap still shows “There is a new version of Google Ad Wrap available.”

I am using WP 3.1, perhaps you should look at it.

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- John on July 10, 2011 at 5:39 pm said:
  
  This is an issue with your installation of WordPress, not the plugin.
  
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LiMoO on July 23, 2011 at 8:56 am said:

Hello, I installed the plugin but i can not find the plugin page setting in the last wordpress version. any updates ?!

Thanks

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- John on July 23, 2011 at 9:44 am said:
  
  There is no settings page
  
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Bursa Emlak on January 3, 2012 at 9:08 pm said:

Thanks John, great relieve for me as I’m not proficient with HTML stuff to wrap adsense code.

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