cyberandroid
msg:3739164 | 4:01 pm on Sep 5, 2008 (gmt 0) |
this belongs in the adsense forum sorry
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sim64
msg:3739180 | 4:18 pm on Sep 5, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Why?
It is about the AdWords TOS!
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jimbeetle
msg:3739192 | 4:26 pm on Sep 5, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Sounds like it's going through a tracking url. Does the user wind up at the appropriate landing page?
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sim64
msg:3739206 | 4:36 pm on Sep 5, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I don't know I didn't click the ad. But even if it does, it makes the AdSense competitive ad filter pointless. I blocked the site it should have landed on, but it has
no effect on the ad, as it must be going via a redirect. If everyone starts doing this, i.e redirecting through another URL to the destination page it will make the AdSense cometitive filter
worthless.
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beesticles
msg:3739231 | 4:58 pm on Sep 5, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Nothing you describe is against the Adwords TOS provided the final destination after the redirect matches the display URL.
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Dlocks
msg:3740453 | 2:08 pm on Sep 8, 2008 (gmt 0) |
When you use the AdSense competitive filter for domein.com then Adsense should block all ads that are using:
1. domein.com as a display URL
2. or domein.com as a tracking URL
3. or domein.com as a landing URL If I understand you correctly, the competitive filter does not work like the above sample?
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netmeg
msg:3740476 | 3:00 pm on Sep 8, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Right, it doesn't. But regardless, there's no reason to believe that Doubleclick has to follow the same TOS as regular AdWords advertisers do. And no, I don't believe there is any way to block individual ads anymore than I can block some ads from ebay and target and not others.
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moTi
msg:3740478 | 3:06 pm on Sep 8, 2008 (gmt 0) |
stupidly, the competitive filter only blocks the tracking url. a real annoyance since year one. i say 95% of the publishers don't know and wonder why the tricksters still get to show in their ad blocks when they have blocked their display url.
you always have to block the "?adurl"-part in the link query. for text ads, that is. flash ads i don't know how to get the link url.
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sim64
msg:3740585 | 5:20 pm on Sep 8, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Like I say, it makes a mockery of the competitive ads feature. All an Adwords publisher has to do is set the ads like this example.tld >> redirect.tld >> example.tld it complies to guidelines because example.tld is the display URL
and the landing URL, but overrides the competitive ads system
because of the redirect.
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