Just kidding folks. :) I am a new Xomba user (a little over a week) and have posted some Xomblurbs to get a feel for the site as well as how Google AdSense works. I have, however, been occasionally disgruntled at the ad links Google places on my various Xomblurbs as they frequently don't have anything to do with the content of the Xomblurb, despite the fact that I try to use good titles, good tag words and sufficient content for the search engine to grab onto.

Yet Hollywood-related Xomblurbs and Xombytes (such as Vanessa Hudgens) seem to get related Google ads placed on them without any problems. (I'm not saying people shouldn't make posts about Hollywood stars, I'm merely discussing Google and their ad links-in fact, I posted two Hollywood-related Xomblurbs myself. I'm referring to what seems like discrepancies in the matter.)

For example, I posted several Xomblurbs regarding Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and naturally expected that Google would place ad links that related in some way to him or his campaign or the presidential elections or Congress or politics in general.

Instead, links offering how to make money online came up as well as links to other subjects that were completely unrelated.

In fact, on one occasion, a link to a herpes website came up. Now, I ask you-is that nice? :-D

Ron Paul has been married to the same woman for 50 years, has 5 children and 17 grandchildren and there has never been any scandal attached to him or his home life. Yet the mean computer at Google that controls the links puts a link to a herpes website on a Ron Paul Xomblurb? Is Google controlled by the "We used to be conservatives" Republican Party? Or perhaps HAL?

In any case, it isn't only on Ron Paul Xomblurbs that unrelated Google links come up. On a number of other Xomblurbs that I posted, money-making links and other links pop up even though the content of the Xomblurb doesn't have anything to do with them.

Now, to be fair, a number of my Xomblurbs do in fact have links that are related to the content in some way so I'm not claiming that all of the links are odd or unrelated, just that it seems to happen more frequently than I, at least, would like to see. After all, isn't the idea to have ad links that people who are interested in the content would also be interested in?

Also, with all due respect to Xomba, some of the "Check Out These Related Articles" section that appears under the Xomblurbs don't have much to do with the Xomblurb in question either. For example, on one Ron Paul Xomblurb, one of the suggested "related articles" was on the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Now, I don't claim to have an in-depth knowledge of Ron Paul's future plans and maybe he is in fact planning on competing in the Beijing Olympics and representing the U.S. in the long-distance running competition or perhaps the pole vault but I would have thought that with the number of "Government and Politics" entries on Xomba, both about Ron Paul as well as other people and topics, the "related articles" that popped up would have all had something to do with the Xomblurb in question.

Well, thank you all for letting me vent. I have actually been enjoying Xomba and I realize that I'm new and am still learning about how things are done. I am also new to Google links and Google AdSense so that is a learning experience also.

I will say, in all fairness, that after I started using the "Meta Tags", it seems as if the Google link ads began to be more relevant although I'm not sure why this is as I thought I read somewhere that Google doesn't use Meta Tags. Also, maybe over time the Google ads start to be more relevant.

In any case, it will be interesting to see how things go. :)

Official Ron Paul 2008 Campaign Website:

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

Official Beijing 2008 Olympics Website:

http://en.beijing2008.cn/