March 8, 2006: Are spammer Ads Taking Over Adsense?

[security56]

Hi, well recently my ctr rate has plometed almost 80 percent and I notice my site is getting a bunch of spam ads that lead to nothing but crap :) I mean they really offer nothing related to the my site as the ads I use to get before,

Is it me or are they all over, like some other threads are saying here.

[europeforvisitors]

The problem isn't universal. It's possible that some topics or sectors have too much publisher inventory for the number of quality ads available.

[security56]

Yea thats probably is, but last year around this time as i rember i never had this proble, but I guerss things change.

If anyone is in the software tech sector maybe thats where the problem lies :)

[hunderdown]

Put them on our "competitive filter" list. Or is yours full already?

[danimal]

i have a website in the computing sector that was overrun with adsense spammer garbage months ago... i had to clean it out every couple of days, and after awhile it got so bad that i quit developing it.

ypn did not have enuf advertisers in that sector at the time, but that is changing... if your sector is swamped with adsense trash, take a look at the ypn advertisers.

[ezgo]

If you see those trash ads on other site, remember to click it as many times as you can. then if he runs out adword money, his ad won't show up on your site. :-)

Or, you go to the trash ad website when it appears on your site. then click their google ad for 1 million times. I guess Google will flag that account for this activity, and then if they investigate this site, they will find out it's nothing but a MFA. Hopefully Google will then disable that account, so you will probably be free from the trash ad.

[edited by: ezgo at 8:54 pm (utc) on Mar. 8, 2006]

[security56]

hunderdown, My list is already full :) I going to stick it out for two more days :)

[humblebeginnings]

"then click their google ad for 1 million times. Hopefully Google disable their account"

I think google will discount those invalid clicks to the advertiser and might ban the dude that has been clicking a million times instead...

[europeforvisitors]

If anyone is in the software tech sector maybe thats where the problem lies :)

Could be. I don't know your sector very well, but I can well imagine that, at certain times (say, when everyone is waiting for the new version of Windows or Office to release) there might be a "wait-and-see effect" among buyers and advertisers. (Come to think of it, I'm waiting for Windows Vista before I buy my next desktop PC and laptop!)

[Marcia]

The amount of junk ads (plus inappropriate ones) I was getting decreased when I opted out of CPM.

Also, I got into the practice of clicking on the "Ads by Google" on my page if a trash or inappropriate ad was there, and complaining about it for whatever reason was applicable.

[maxgoldie]

I dont see it (MFAs) as only affecting tech sites. I see this stuff across a substantially diverse set of niches.

Most of the crap ads all have one thing in common:
obviously dubious URLs, like my-keyword-info-tips.com

[europeforvisitors]

I dont see it (MFAs) as only affecting tech sites.

Nobody's suggesting that MFA ads are limited to one sector. But some sectors, topics, or keywords may be affected more than others, if only because of supply and demand.