Generic Adsense Filters

[turbohost]

Hi Guys,

I've just read about the Adsense filters. Are there some generic Adsense URL filters available? I mean is there a list available of bad advertisers?

Turbo

[turbohost]

Someone please?

[europeforvisitors]

A generic list of questionable advertisers wouldn't be useful for two reasons:

1) You're limited in how many domains you can block, and..

2) Most of the advertisers on the list would never show up on your site anyway, since AdSense ads are targeted by keyword (or occasionally by site).

[david_uk]

The only common one people block is ebay "new and used dental floss" type garbage. As EFV says, what appears on my site is probably never going to appear on someone elses - therefore a generic list is a waste of the competitive ad filter list.

I would say if you are going to block ads, then do so sparingly. If you see a MFA, then it may well be a short lived placement. I only block the persistant ones to avoid filling up the list. Also, don't rely on the preview tool - it only shows a sample set of ads. I will only block an ad if I see it on my site.

I'd dearly love Google to give us publishers more tools to block junky ads :(

[edited by: david_uk at 10:37 pm (utc) on Feb. 3, 2006]

[jonathanleger]

Ebay is definitely one to block. Their ads are rarely targetted to the content of the pages where I see them appear.

[europeforvisitors]

I'd dearly love Google to give us publishers more tools to block junky ads :(

I wish they didn't have any junky ads, but then, one man's poison is another man's meat.

What I'd like (but don't expect to see) would be the ability to block ads by keyword or category. For example, if I could block all booking-site ads (or all ads containing the word "hotel" or "hotels"), I might be more interested in keeping AdSense on the parts of my site that generate a lot of sales via affiliate programs. (I don't mind hotels' own ads competing with me, but I see no great benefit for me or for readers in cluttering up my pages with "PPC arbitrage" ads when I've already got affiliate links of my own.)

[edited by: europeforvisitors at 10:47 pm (utc) on Feb. 3, 2006]

[icedowl]

I've been wondering about ads that want the visitor to take a short survey or similar action. Are they worth keeping or blocking? This has had me puzzled for a while now.

[david_uk]

My personal rule is that if an advert is not directly selling good or services, or a bona-fide information site then I consider blocking. I don't know if encouraging to take a survey pays or not, but I don't think that type of ad would fit in with my visitors in any case.