Can anyone else confirm what I am seeing?
seems familiar now that you raise it...
be interested to hear further on this.
Shak
Norton Ad Blocking looks at URLs and other things and if the URLs have tip-offs like /ads/ in the URL they don't show it.
In Norton, I had to go into "Statistics", "View Logs", "Content Blocking" then clicked an individual blocked ad to see the reason it was block (Reason: "/ads/").
Whew! But that's not the end. Not even close.
To allow those ads you have to go back to the main page, "Status & Settings", select "Ad Blocking", click on "Configure", "Advanced", "Add Site" in the left side column, and then put in Google's domain name, then select the new entry for Google, then in the right side column click on "Add", then select "Permit" and type in the offending phase, for example "/ads/" without the quotes.
Yeah, right. Like anyone who isn't interested in Adword titles is going to go through all that trouble.
Of course, you could just disable all "Ad Blocking" but what fun is that?
And BTW, does anyone know how you stop all these Norton, "A remote system is attempting to access your computer" popups, while maintaining security?
If I learn any interesting details, I'll pass them on.
By the way, this forum is an absolutely outstanding Early Alert System for things like this. Just amazing.
Adsense may be a little more interesting and context sensitive than graphic ads but they still slow down browsing and were not the actual content the visitor was visiting your site for in the first place. I block adsense too in my firewall and other client pc's and when I do network admin.
The good news for you is that most novices don't use such products like NIS, so some people will still see your ads. But expect more and more products to block them by default.
Under OPTIONS you have to de-select "Show Internet Security Icon in System Tray."
The only downside to doing this is that you don't have a continuous visual verification that Internet Security is running.
I get nervous sometimes and do a manual check.
BTW, has anyone noticed a slow-down in your computer's page download speed due to Norton? I certainly have.
Imagine, sophisticated software targeting Adwords and the like and obliterating them.
"Can't be done you cry", sure it can and will 'cause there's big bucks for the winner who can proclaim, "NEVER SEE AN AD AGAIN", and deliver on that claim.
I have had a gut feeling for about 6 months now, and I am proably wrong as I know nought about IPOs, but I'll run it up the flag pole.
As was shown during the dot com bubble, the greatest speculative money was made when there was the greatest fantasy about the mystical future of a company, it's products, and the business sector it was in. I suspect that Google's fantasy curve is on the descend as many many businesses are chiping away at Google from all sorts of angles, such as blocking adwords.
So my gut feeling is that they have missed the IPO window. But hey, noone really knows.
Sorry for the quick off-topic.
But then you'd have to use your own server bandwidth to pull down the ads and there are other issues which makes me think Google is unlikely to let this happen happen anytime soon.
does anyone know how you stop all these Norton, "A remote system is attempting to access your computer" popups,
I think the system security tray icon is something different.
To stop the pop up ads that come at you in the middle of the screen. Click on Personal Firewall, Configure, then custonm level - in that section you should see two options at the bottom unlcick alert if unused port is accessed.
On another note can you pls tell me how is the Email Spam Filter in NIS 2004. It is supposed to be one of the biggest reasons for upgrading?
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I can only hope and pray that Google quickly take notice and do something about the pain caused by their inept implemenation of broad matching, just as I am sure they will very quickly take notice that an important company like Norton might affect them adversly.
BTW AdwordsAdvisor any strong words directed at Google is in no way meant to be a personal attack on you. No way. I am not saying this to ingratiate myself, just being professional.
I also know that to get anywhere with a large organization is to be very very persistent in pointing out their errors and why it affects them and not just the complainor.
Do google ads also get blocked by other ad-blockers?
Combine Google’s quality customer support, systems (sans broad match), etc. with the OV format and you have a winning combination….less tacky to ;)
-c
I'm pretty sure Google wouldn't know that the ads are being blocked as it occurs on the user end. Is this a possible reason that CTR rates may be dropping or will in the future as the problem becomes more widespread?
-c
The little information I've been able to gleen shows that not all AdWords ads are blocked. Evidently the program sees something very 'ad-like' about certain URLs, and blocks them.
If you are a user of Norton Internet Security 2004, perhaps it would be worth calling Norton's user-support to see if they can expand on this idea at all.
It would certainly be worthwhile to know how to create un-ad-like URLs.
