Forum Moderators: martinibuster
Primarily, these are ads for scraper sites, sites that go off to nothing even close to what my visitors are interested in, and redirects to unacceptable content (adult, etc.)
I am requesting that AdSense please take a closer look at your approval process for advertisers using AdWords, and a closer look at the process of serving ads to sites like mine.
There are many legitimate ads - don't get me wrong. But I feel that these are being suppressed in some cases by these rogue advertisers. I am particularly concerned about unacceptable adult content and the URLs I have found in the Google Preview Tool that are cloaked URLs that redirect to other pages.
Thanks, and I appreciate any response.
G's response was -- Of course! -- that there was nothing that could be done at its end. So, after spending way too much time tracking down URLs to block I gave up and just pulled Adsense from about 50 pages.
They had been pretty good money makers for me and, I assume, Google and maybe even the advertisers. G managed to turn it into a lose-lose-lose situtation.
I find no indication of any trend of objectionable content ads. Visitors to your site are far more likely to find content that is PG-13 and above in a regular search engine query than in a Google ad.
If you don't like it, start a multi-billion dollar company and hire a call center the size of India to proofread and edit ads in realtime. Otherwise, you have the previously mentioned option of not using the program.
I beg to differ. As the popularity of AdSense has increased since its inception the number of people who have joined the program and turn to unscrupulous ways of gaining income have increased as well.
[If you don't like it, start a multi-billion dollar company and hire a call center the size of India to proofread and edit ads in realtime. Otherwise, you have the previously mentioned option of not using the program.]
Or, as in the real business world, any company that I do business with or have contractual agreements with in which their income and mine is dependent upon some sort of mutual agreement - I have the option of bringing it to their attention, which I have done in this forum and also through their own feedback channels.
How they choose to respond (or not) is entirely their concern. But I would hope that in the interest of fairness to all parties concerned, that this issue becomes addressed.
Google wants great content sites. I (and many other publishers, I am sure) want to provide great content... not spend hours looking through each page in the site to find errant advertisers and "report" them through the URL blocking tool.
The only thing you can do is pull them down when you see them and if the individual persists, ban them from the store.
From your perspective, you are saying they are not doing enough to monitor the ads, fair enough. However in 2 years of using Adsense and Adwords I can't remember a single instance of a porn or blatantly sneaky ad.
I do have bit of Adsense blindness due to being a publisher and probably don't click ads as much as a normal users out of reflex. I still click ones that interest me and don't really recall any that end up at lewd locations.
For that matter, I can't see how anyone could turn a profit out of PPC porn, sounds like a bloody money pit to me.
