Google Ad Wrap - Section Targeting

May 29, 2006 | Tags: google, plugin | Written by Administrator

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.

Comments

1
Marios Alexandrou :
Jun 25, 2006 7:38 am

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 (author) :
Jun 26, 2006 5:45 am

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.
3
Ct :
Aug 1, 2006 5:11 am

Great plugin. Thanks
4
aop1980 :
Aug 11, 2006 4:55 pm

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
5
John (author) :
Aug 13, 2006 10:22 pm

It does all posts on a page, so if you only have 3 then that will be it.
6
Gerard :
Mar 7, 2007 4:20 am

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

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 (author) :
Oct 14, 2007 10:09 pm

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 :
Oct 15, 2007 8:04 am

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 (author) :
Oct 15, 2007 10:26 am

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 :
Mar 12, 2008 11:17 am

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

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

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!
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John (author) :
Jun 15, 2008 9:27 am

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 :
Jul 27, 2008 8:41 am

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