Site Targetting vs. Competitive Filter

Q: Which one wins? (A: Filter)

[claus]

Sorry, I haven't followed the discussions in this forum, but I tried doing a Google search and found no information on this.

A small question for the experts:

If one of my competitors use "Site targetting" to put their ads on my web site, and I discover this, and then include them in the "competitive filter"... Oh, nevermind...

I just refreshed the page and they disappeared. It just took a long time for them to do so. (the question should have been "who wins?")

I'll just post this anyway so that others with this question will know that the competitor filter seems to exclude competitors using site targetting. Imho, that's nice (necessary, even)

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How I knew about the site targetting? Hint: Use your AdSense Preview Tool ;-)

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Btw: congrats with 10.000 threads ;-)

[david_uk]

I would most certainly assume that the competitive ad filter would win!

How I knew about the site targetting? Hint: Use your AdSense Preview Tool ;-)

Erm - you wouldn't care to elaborate on this by any chance?

[stardoc]

Sometimes smart competitors target a site for CPM ads in countries other than the location of the webmaster. Adsense preview tool can tell you whether you are being ambushed in that way.

[david_uk]

How?

I'm in the UK, as is the hosting of the site, but most of my traffic and income is from the US. My site is in the top 3 on a google.com search on my keyword and gets a lot of visitors, and I have a suspicion that some of the regular ads *may* be site targetted. I can't see any difference between any ad showing on the preview tool with the US as geotarget. What should I be looking for?

[leveldisc]

How I knew about the site targetting? Hint: Use your AdSense Preview Tool ;-)

Not sure you why just can't say!

Because like David_uk, I only suspect I might be site targeted, but I could easily not be.

So, the trick with the preview tool could be blindingly obvious if you are, but if you're not ... how will you ever know?

Any chance of a bit more info?

[claus]

Sorry, been away for a while.

The tool shows which ads will appear on the page due to contextual match, doesn't it? Now, compare that with the ads that are actually displayed on the page. See a discrepancy somewhere?

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>> Why don't you just tell
Because, as I just told you the above, now I wonder how many hours this little "feature" will exits. Best guess is that it'll be "fixed" real soon now.