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You can use Google’s “placement targeting” feature to target ads to appear on specific pages at our website that benefit your company, particularly if your advertisement and product provide services, products, or information that are useful to our readers. we have seen better results for us and for advertisers using this approach than could be obtained by placing single (and more costly) ads fixed on individual website pages.
For example if someone asked about placing an ad on our air conditioning diagnosis/repair topic front-page, we have presently nearly 250 different technical articles on air conditioning online, many of which have higher page-view statistics than the A/C front page.
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You can target ads to the InspectAPedia.com website; we recommend that you try Google AdSense generated ads targeted to our website. Google will place your product ads where their algorithms determine they will best perform, or if Google detects that our content or your advertisement and products do not relate, they won't place the ad.
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