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In order to show relevant ads to a user I just put Google code on my site and they target the ads based on their knowledge of that user. Is there anyway I can use AdSense or any other advertising company to decide myself what ads to show to the user from their pool? i.e. I will decide to show him a "technology" related ads?

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Annoyingly my question (webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/8811) was closed as an exact duplicate of this one. So I am forced to hijack this. I'm looking for ad services for publishers that allow the publishers to choose which ads are relevant to each page's content (NOT the user). Thanks. –  UpTheCreek Feb 7 '11 at 13:04

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Search API for Shopping can let you search and display ads from Google Affiliate network, and the products offered from merchants. Google Affiliate let you choose Merchants of your choice and you can add emended id links in any kind you ads you like, you can put your own designed Ads and add you publisher link in it, they have hardware/software, telecommunication etc like categories where you can choose Merchants of you choice.

Adsense and its api won't going to help you i guess, as adsense api is for revenue sharing etc. you can't edit or choose ads either.

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Interesting, thanks. –  UpTheCreek Feb 16 '11 at 7:01

AFAIK, Google's AdSense ads don't target specific users. They display ads on Gmail like that, but all other ads are based on the content of the page not the user.

If you want to show more relevant ads to your users, you can do audience profiling and segmentation through companies like Rapleaf, Quantcast, Full Circle Studies (ScorecardResearch), Brilig, and I think Alexa also offers marketing analytics.

The only company I know of that does user-specific targeting is Rapleaf, which has an API that lets you query user information based on email addresses to deliver advertising targeted at that specific user or to personalize their user experience.

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I don't think that this has to do with ad type. Advertising companies shows ads based on user history.

I don't think that you can do that because not every ad has the same CPC and if this can be done everyone will chose to show only ads with high CPC.

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"I don't think that this has to do with ad type." - this would seem to be what the OP is asking, how to display ads of a particular type/subject? –  w3d Nov 25 at 23:44
I know that you cant do that with Google Ads but there are to many other advertising companie outside that let u chose between one camping or other, or u can choose just a single banner by your choice. –  Eduart Nov 26 at 0:00

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