HIV is blacklisted word?

[freitasm]

My site is about handhelds and wireless technology. It just happens that a laboratory released a software for Pocket PC and Palm that lists drug interactions for HIV treatments, and I posted about it.

I am using the "other one that we can't say the name here" as alternate for my AdSense, and since the second impression it's showing ads related to handhelds. No sign of Google AdSense on this page at all after a few hundre impressions, and usually it shows up pretty quickly (like 5 to 10 impressions after article is posted). All other pages are working fine.

What do you think?

[loanuniverse]

Nope a quick google search using the following parameters

<suspect word> "ads by google"

shows targeted ads on the first site.

[freitasm]

Ok... I have a few posts from the same date and time. This one had more than 100 impressions and still shows "the other alternate network" ads related to handhelds.

Another article, posted at the same but with only 30 impressions shows nice AdSense ads...

Go figure. I've e-mailed Google already.

[luigi]

Surely no! I have a site with same pages with "HIV" in the text (in title tag, in H1 and in the body), and show ads about anti-AIDS herbal products and other medical and pharmacies related ads.

[jino]

I think the problem is with the word "drug" instead of HIV. Try using the word medication instead and I am sure your trouble will go away.

[freitasm]

Worth a try... Just updated the article.

Thanks!

[freitasm]

Ok, changed all "drug interaction" to "medication interaction", and nothing, still showing the alternates.

I then used the new AdSense preview tool on that page and it showed nothing, saying that either the page wasn't crawled or contained bad words.

I then e-mailed AdSense help desk, and receive a reply that they would look into that specific page. I also pointed another few pages posted at the same time, all showing proper AdSense ads.

After a few hours the page is now showing AdSense ads there. I take they reviewed the page and checked an "All Clear" box somewhere in the system :)

[mmarlor]

Hi mate,

Good heads up there. I actually edited a submitted story in advance a couple of weeks back when I saw what I felt was guaranteed to be a stop word, and since it was a tech article and didn't actually add anything in any case; it was a no brainer to remove.

On another note, the particular word I'm talking about would probably discourage readers anyhow! It has a tendency to stand out, and they'd be clicking away before you'd say boo.

A little bit of caution when writing articles or reviewing them for approval certainly doesn't hurt, I should think :-)

GREAT to hear of such a good response from the AdSense team though - all my dealings with them have been positive, although at times a little slow :-)

Matt

[freitasm]

Hello Matt... Look who is here. Yep, that's right, I've been careful with wording, but this was a puzzle, since it meets the general site line (and you know that, we read each other's sites)...

All is good now anyway.

[mmarlor]

Yep, it's quirky (but not so quirky as Google News ;-) ).

The word I had could be nothing BUT a stop word. Believe me on this! :-) I changed it to criminal, as a hint.