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How do I customize Google AdSense "advertise on this site"?

Much to my surprise, Google's suddenly started including an "advertise on this site" link on my Google AdSense blocks. I don't so much mind, but I would like to know how to customize or tweak the page that Google is showing when someone clicks on that link. Is that doable?

Dave's Answer:

It's not so obvious, but yes, you can customize the color, text, and even the logo shown on the Google "Advertise on This Site" page (it's called Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up by Google, by the way) that people are seeing. Here's how to tweak it:

Now, click on the cheery blue edit link and you'll see:

As you can see, there's quite a variety of tweaking you can do, from your site name to your logo, site description, colors, and so on. Note that Google recommends you change these values from the default to make them more appealing to potential advertisers.

You can see the defaults here, but if you click on my own "Advertise on this site" link, you'll see the customizations I've made. Nothing earth-shattering, I admit, but hopefully helpful for potential advertisers who are interested in helping underwrite the cost of running this site.

Hope that gets you going with the customization you seek. Good luck!

Also, if you haven't yet signed up for Google's AdSense program, I encourage you to check out my earlier article Getting Started with Google AdSense.

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I want to place ads in my pages from a 'pre-determined set of ads' that I know are very relevant to the visitors to my page.

For example, my page visitors mainly belong to the 'buying class'. So I would like to put some ads on gadgets , cameras etc.. But my page content in non-technical, not related to photography..
So adsense puts some obscure ads... I know that we can specify keywords in Adsense, but again
What I want is not just any camera ad, but specifically say a Canon or Sony one..

In short, I need "Ad targetting"..

I know that my site's most visitors are young...But how do I put a matrimonial ad (that too specifically the one which I know is very popular..) ?

So, I already have a list of ads that I want to appear in my site. But my site's content is not about them.. How do I do this in ADSENSE...?

"Site Targetting" is being introduced by Adsense.
But what I need is "Ad targetting".. (not merely hinting with keywords)

thanks for any replies.

Posted by: Vagabond at December 21, 2005 8:47 PM

As far as I know, that's not a capability within the current AdSense system, Vagabond. It'd be nice to have keyword hinting, etc., however.

Posted by: Dave Taylor at December 22, 2005 12:23 AM

Thanks for the info Dave and keep up the hard work!

Posted by: FireCrow at December 28, 2005 10:07 PM

Very interesting Dave, I only customized with my logo only the google response page... and missed to customize Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up: I will do it immediately, thanks!

Posted by: Virgix at June 4, 2006 12:25 PM

S@NTO.

Posted by: S@NTO. at February 21, 2007 11:34 PM

I have a lot to say, but ...

I have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but most of all I'd like to say thank you for all your efforts on this Web site by buying you a chai!

I do have a comment, now that you mention it!