Restricted Topics

[mike schmitz]

I have a site that has general articles on a variety of topics. We normally have one page of text which the adsense is then targeted off of.

We have noticed that drug stores, gambling, sex and a few other topics trigger on PA ads on adsense.

We set up a new article on lemon laws and it also only shows the PA advertisements.

Has anyone else seen certain topics limited and if so is lemon laws one of those?

mike

[ExpLarry]

Sorry if its a silly question, but what is a "Lemon Law"?

[irock]

Googled... this may have something more to do with automobiles than lemon.

EDIT: There are Lemon Computers too...

I saw very few ads targeted at 'lemon laws', but those advertisers could be blocking adsense publishers from displaying their ads.. who knows...

[edited by: irock at 11:02 pm (utc) on July 8, 2004]

[PhraSEOlogy]

Lemon Law - Its an american term meaning a product that does not function as it should. They have laws that allow the consumer to get a refund on a "lemon" if they follow specific rules for trying to correct the problem with it.

[Marcia]

The Electronics store where I bought the last computer gives a full exchange if the same problem turns up 4 times, so it's built into some warranty packages. I guess 4 times for the same thing would make it a lemon. I suppose phrases related to specific products - "defective widgets" would indicate some topical relevancy.

[edited by: Marcia at 11:07 pm (utc) on July 8, 2004]

[mike schmitz]

I'm seeing quite a bit for a Google search of "<a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=lemon+law">Lemon Laws</A>"

Usually when there are this many advertisers, at least some will particpate in content.

M

[ExpLarry]

PhraSEOlogy: thanks. From the I was imagining a law restricting the depiction of lemons in visual media available to minors or something.

A useful trick: get a copy of Opera, set the preferred ads to Google adsense and try surfing some lemon law oriented pages. Googling for "lemon law" produces lots of related ads on the sites in the top results.

[Leosghost]

From the I was imagining a law restricting the depiction of lemons in visual media available to minors or something.

ExpLarry ..you gotta stop doing those anagram games :)

[loanuniverse]

Has anyone else seen certain topics limited and if so is lemon laws one of those?

My guess is that it is another word in the topic, or Mediabot has been lazy. I would use an unregistered Opera browser to see what it pulls from the page, if that doesn't work then it is time to take a look at the copy.

Someone posted here or in another forum I visit about PSAs in a photography site. We ended up guessing it was because of the use of "child" & "photo/picture" in the article.

[hyperkik]

If you run a google search for: lemon law bumper warranty ; the first result should be an AdSense client with lemon law ads.

I think, however, that there is something in the algorithm which treats certain pages as "suspect" when they are built around very high value keywords like "lemon law".

[brendan3eb]

If you have iframess on your page and dont tell adsense you'll get pa ads, that is if the content is in the iframe and the ads are outside of it.