AdSense No-No Words

What are They?

[ineedmoney]

Hey folks, Just wondering is there a list of no no words (words that bring up no ads) with google adsense, obviously anything to do with drugs or porn won't do, but what about curse words? slang? Any experience with this?

[OptiRex]

I know nothing comes up with beer, bier, cerveza, birra, ale and bière!

[malachite]

It didn't like "hanged" and/or "jail" on one of my pages, and gave me PSAs until they did a manual review.

[Chapman]

OptiRex-

I know nothing comes up with beer, bier, cerveza, birra, ale and bière!

It's interesting that the policies specifically target beer...

"Sales or promotion of beer or hard alcohol"

and yet they have no problem with wine, which a portion of my site pertains to.

[farmboy]

On some of my pages, AdSense seems to avoid words such as "injury" or "accident"

FarmBoy

[OptiRex]

and yet they have no problem with wine, which a portion of my site pertains to.

I know, it's very strange, then again grappa and armagnac is allowed!

[malachite]

Grappa shouldn't be allowed. Seriously dangerous stuff ;)

[Chapman]

I think it must be a US thing, no true appreciation for the beer concept... probably due to uniqueness of our domestic brews! ;)

[Jane_Doe]

It may have changed by now, but awhile back I couldn't even mention killing mold and mildew.

[malachite]

I know nothing comes up with beer, bier, cerveza, birra, ale and bière!

Perhaps it depends on the context. I mention beer/ale quite a lot, but only in terms of "the Blue Widget serves real ale", followed by a list of relevant ales.

Touch wood (malachite grabs side of desk), I've never had PSAs on these pages.

[europeforvisitors]

I know nothing comes up with beer, bier, cerveza, birra, ale and bière!

I have an article on Munich's Oktoberfest that talks about beer and has ads on every page (including an ad with the headline "Beer Festival").

On the other hand, I have a page about "beer holes" in a smaller German city's building facades that's displaying a site-targeted CPM ad for a Volvo automobile. But then again, so are some other pages about that city that have nothing to do with beer, booze, or any other potential "stop words," so the lack of targeted CPC ads on that page is probably just a coincidence.

[Lagamorph]

I had an issue with a ski instructors bio that had. Husband, teenager, teach kids, Mt. Bachelor and a few other "relationship" terms.

I pulled some of those words and I got ads back, I guess they're being a bit over cautious in the potential online predator areas. It took me a while to figure it out though, I had to think like a computer.

[jomaxx]

Husband? Bachelor? Teenager?

Huh? Why would those be stopwords? Are online predators advertising via AdWords now?

[greatstart]

What you can do is replace the no-no text word with a small image that contains the word. Just make sure it matches the color and style of your text.

This way, no one would even notice anything different, and it will not cause AdSense to display a PSA on your page.

[humblebeginnings]

Mesota... Mesototo... Mesotortellini. Whatever.

[Lagamorph]

Husband? Bachelor? Teenager?
Huh? Why would those be stopwords? Are online predators advertising via AdWords now?

I thought it was odd but it was similar to a bunch of different bios and this was all I could find different. It was PSA's for a month, I pulled a few words and got ads the next day. I'm guessing a certain collection of words implied adult content to some algorithm somewhere. The title of the page is a female name.

Who knows really.