Removing travel affiliates ....

From a prominent non travel based destination site

[shri]

I have a community site related to a location. Unfortunately, the site is flooded with travel ads which do not even make sense -- due to bad geotargetting.

If I was in location A, which in gods name would I want flights to and hotel deals in that location?

I've isolated about 50 travel advertisers and seems like there are 200 more to go.

Any suggestions or tips on how to remove these advertisers?

[mlemos]

Mail adsense support on this subject.

Once I complained that despite my site was about PHP, there was ads for products and services for Java, .Net, etc...

They asked me a list of words to block and once they activated the blocking the targetting improved a lot.

Your case is a little different, but only AdSense support can do anything about it.

[shri]

Didn't figure it was an option.

Have emailed them. Lets see how they respond.

Thanks.

[shri]

Not too encouraging.

Please note that at this time, our filter system operates by URL only, not by keyword or category. If you wish to prevent certain ads from appearing on your pages, we ask that you place the destination URL of those ads onto
your filter list.

Basically this means we'd have to look at some fairly creative ways to use the filter (wonder if a generic filter like "travel" or "hotel" is allowed.

[JamesR3]

wonder if a generic filter like "travel" or "hotel" is allowed.

Only to AdSense premium members, which means many millions of hits per month -- and it seems like even then they have some discretion about who they invite in.