danimal - 10:29 pm on Sep 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

>>>The other would be to use "section targeting" to tell the bot to ignore the paragraphs or sections on a page that are triggering the <snip> ads....<<<

that won't help, because just like ebay, <snip> advertisers are apparently free to pick whatever keywords they want to target their ads at... it doesn't matter whether the keywords are relevant to <snip> or not.

blocking important keywords that are relevant to your site content will also block ads from quality advertisers.

the only fix for this problem is for google to get rid of the adwords trash advertisers that are polluting their network... or give publishers the tools to do things like stop all <snip> advertisers, perhaps as a selectable category(?).

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:25 am (utc) on Sep. 24, 2006]
[edit reason] see above [/edit]