Block Ads by AdWords Account ID

[Yidaki]

One dodgy competing guy who owns some 300 domains started to advertize his dups through AdWords after they have been removed from the index due to massive spam. His ads are now displayed at my sites. Since having these ads at my sites hurt my image and reputation, i have to block them asap. But it's impossible for me to block them all - don't know them all - so i contacted the AdSense staff and asked if it's possible to have them block the sites by his AdWords account ID.

You think it's possible? Anybody did it?

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Btw, he also started to publish AdSense at his sites a few days ago (~1 week). Since then our own AdSense's CTR increased by 0.5%. Coincidence? I asked google to check this too ...

[Jenstar]

That is an interesting idea. I do wonder if there is privacy concerns, if the account number could possibly be traced back to all adwords ads (and thus the sites) of the one owner. But if they cannot be connected, it would be handy for blocking.

Likewise, it would be good if they had a filter list where you could submit a URL and all ads from that account would automatically be blocked. An excellent way to block all your competitors easily.

[Yidaki]

>a filter list where you could submit a URL and all ads from that account would automatically be blocked

Yeah, that would be handsome!

>privacy concerns,

Hm, i doubt there are privacy concerns because that's already possible with AdSense - track back all sites from the one owner. Anyway, your filter idea should eleminate any privacy concerns since one wouldn't even have to know/notice which sites would get blocked - not important as long as they are from the same account.

[FromRocky]

I donot understand how you can relate your competitor's Adsense publishing to your Adsense CTR increase?

[Yidaki]

>I donot understand how you can relate your competitor's Adsense publishing to your Adsense CTR increase?

Since he's obviously aware of AdSense now, he's probably also aware of it fraud possibilites. This guy is a pretty militant competitor - no morals, no ethics - so it'd no surprise to me if he'd run a little click bot ... but then, maybe it's just coincidence this little 0.5 constant increase after 4 months pretty stable CTR.

[Jenstar]

For every ad you block on your own site, you have to consider that they are the highest paying ads, and the ads with the highest CTRs are the ones that would appear. If you block ads you actually see on your site, chances are your EPC and CTR could go down.

[markus007]

For every ad you block on your own site, you have to consider that they are the highest paying ads, and the ads with the highest CTRs are the ones that would appear. If you block ads you actually see on your site, chances are your EPC and CTR could go down.

Not with the targetting lately. Some advertisers are totally gaming the system. I've seen ads like this

title: Relationships
Adtext: Buy stuff at ebay bla bla bla aff

[europeforvisitors]

I was really annoyed when I was looking up "[dog breed] rescue" and found "[dog breed] rescue" ads that were selling pet supplies. When I wrote to AdWords to complain, they didn't seem to grasp the problem. (One of these days I'll probably run across a "Fight world hunger" AdWord from a mail-order vendor of appetite suppressants.)

[onfire]

When I wrote to AdWords to complain, they didn't seem to grasp the problem.

Thats bad, if they just blanked it when its very clear to see, or did they see that they were paying top $ for those Ads and chose to leave it as it was?

[annej]

title: Relationships
Adtext: Buy stuff at ebay bla bla bla aff

This is exactly what I have been trying to block.

Maybe it depends on who visits your site and from where. I have a LOT of return visitors and I feel like I will do better if when they click on an ad it is something of interest to them and not one of these 'we'll find it for you' or 'look at this list' sites.

But then maybe there are enough one time visitors that it wouldn't matter.

[Yidaki]

Received a reply from the AS team this morning saying something like Blocking by AdWords Account ID isn't possible currently. Only way is the URL filter. We're currently testing new filters ... varity of new options for advertizing targeting.

Maybe they consider the filter suggestion i sent them.

[europeforvisitors]

"We're currently testing new filters ... varity of new options for advertizing targeting."

Hmmm....Could filters for advertisers (as well as for publishers) be in the offing?

[onfire]

This would be a great plus for the publisher, but i am not sure the advertisers would think so.