Does Opera improve AdSense relevancy?
There seems to be a rumor floating around that viewing your pages with Opera will improve the relevancy of the ads shown on those pages by AdSense. I've not noticed this behavior: if I view my own pages with Opera, I don't see the Mediapartners crawler (the Web crawler that Google uses to fetch pages for analysis — often confused with, but separate from, the Googlebot, Google's main crawler) show up any more often. If you're viewing pages that nobody's viewed for a while (maybe hours, maybe days) then the Mediapartners crawler may be dispatched to fetch the most recent version of the pages, so maybe that's what's confusing people.
Eric Giguere is the author of the introductory AdSense book Make Easy Money with Google, available in softcover from all major bookstores.
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