Way to emphasize important content of you page with section targeting

Google AdSense ads are automatically targeted to the content of your webpage, but sometimes you may want to emphasize or downplay certain sections of your page -- for example, you may want to emphasize the first paragraph of your article or ignore your menu bar. With section targeting, you can help Google determine what parts of your content are important so that your site can show more relavent targeted ads.

To implement section targeting, you'll need to add a set of special HTML comment tags to your code. These tags will mark the beginning and end of whichever section(s) you'd like to emphasize or de-emphasize for ad targeting.

The HTML tags to emphasize a page section take the following format:


You can also designate sections you'd like to have ignored by adding a (weight=ignore) to the starting tag:


With these tags added to your HTML code, your final code may look like the following:



You can use section targeting to make suggestions about as many sections of a page as you like. However, please be aware that we can't guarantee results, and that it may take up to 2 weeks before our crawlers take into account any changes you've made to your site.

In order to properly implement this feature, you'll need to include a significant amount of content within the section targeting tags. Including insufficient content may result in less relevant ads or PSAs.

In addition, please keep in mind that this feature should only be used to emphasize significant sections of your site's relevant content.