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"excessive use of keywords on the site"

content quality?

         

bhartzer

10:39 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Got an email from the Adsense folks complaining of "excessive use of keywords on the site or in the content of the site". They say that this must be removed immediately.

What exactly do they mean? Is this against the TOS? Can they (or will they) pull the account?

I'm confused, because they approved the site as it is right now. I haven't made any changes to the site since they approved it.

yoyo8

10:46 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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If this is true then it's great news as I have been complaining about keyword spamming for a long time now.

mack

10:52 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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So the Adsense people think they can tell you how to run your site now?

hmmm

Mack.

bhartzer

10:54 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'm confused, because I checked the TOS and the word "keyword" or the word "excessive" isn't anywhere there. Not to mention the fact that they approved the site exactly as it is right now.

ganderla

10:56 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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<never mind>

mack

10:57 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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"Google needs to approve every site that has ads on it, not just the first."

My understanding is you can use your code on any site you run.

Mack.

Yidaki

10:59 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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>excessive use of keywords on the site or in the content of the site

So is there excessive use? If so, it's a legit warning and i'd take it serious.

>So the Adsense people think they can tell you how to run your site now?

Sure. Not now but since its beginning. Every advertizing network can do this and actually many do it. But i'd look at it a different way: they tell people how they SHOULD run their site if they plan to earn some bucks with AdSense. They don't have to though.

adfree

11:04 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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If it's your homepage you are talking about I need to agree with the other member earlier in this thread: AdSense does not like competing ads at the same page.

Also: your site pretty much only consists of a homepage and another one (domains) where you have a PR of 5 (without links coming in, how the hell you do that?), whereas your homepage doesn't even have a PR, there is some serious tweaking to be done in order for Google to like your site.

The way they operate and the way you described their e-mail sounds to me like one or three triggers came up from some crawler and kicked a canned message lose that addresses what the crawler believed to have found.

Having a couple of pages with content, getting rid of the competing text ads and get some links from the outside might help just fine.

Cheers, Jens

[edited by: adfree at 11:08 pm (utc) on Feb. 12, 2004]

bhartzer

11:05 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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>excessive use...

One keyword/keyword phrase is targeted per page. And the keyword/keyword phrases all have a decent keyword density on the page (something like 1-10 percent). They usually rank well in the non-paid search results. That certainly cannot be excessive, can it be?

bhartzer

11:08 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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adfree, in regards to: "your site pretty much only consists..." It's actually not the site in my profile or any site that you could possibly relate to me.

adfree

11:09 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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bhartzer - sorry if I failed you on this one, want to sticky me?

AdSenseAdvisor

1:25 am on Feb 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I know that the AdSense team regularly checks sites running AdSense, and one of the things they look for could be excessive keywords. There are a number of sites using high levels of keywords to manipulate the ad targeting, or to influence their search engine ranking, and this wouldn't be acceptable from a quality point of view.

If you're unsure as to what they're speaking of in their email, or if you think the email was in error, feel free to respond to AdSense support and ask for clarification.

ASA.

mayor

2:57 am on Feb 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'm getting spam e-mails made to look like something from Google advising me that my site needs to be updated to meet Google's rules and regulations.

This can get real ugly, because pretty soon I'm going to have to start filtering these and a lot of other Google wannabee eye-catchers that are coming out of the woodwork. I'm afraid one day I'll get the real thing and it might get's ignored! I hope Google is aware of the e-mail spamming going on using their name and tries to make real sure that an e-mail they send out looks like the real thing without question.

ignatz

3:11 am on Feb 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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The only way the adsense program will continue to be as lucrative for google (and us) as it has been is to begin even stronger content review.

Just a few bad sites or advertisers pulling their ads could trigger the beginning of the end.

Not saying your site deservers to get pulled, but frankly the *harder* it is to get and stay into adsense the better AFAIC...

And yeah.. I think google can probably tell you exactly how to run your site as long as you want to advertise for them.

Remember adsense is very new, we can't even get detailed traffic stats yet, lol...

Visit Thailand

3:22 am on Feb 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'm getting spam e-mails made to look like something from Google advising me that my site needs to be updated to meet Google's rules and regulations.

Me too - numerous per day. Very annoying.

jbgilbert

3:52 am on Feb 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I got an email very similar to this, but based on previous dealings with Google, the issues will likely get worked out.

For true issues Google issues an incident number. I believe this tells the bots and automated responses that a Google human reviewer is involved and to let the human handle it.

The "fake" Google emails is scary -- as soon as I read it I went through my emails to make sure the emails from Google were really from Google.