Crappy Ads this weekend

oh no, political Ads to

[Kahless]

My site is non-political and it is imperative that users see my site as unbiased politically. I went to my home page today and there it was, a big anti Bush Ad. A few more clicks followed by a 300x250 "Join the right wing conspiracy" Ad.

I checked the other Ads out and they are just the bottom of the barrell as far as sites go. I tried filtering them out but since it has been an hour already and they are still there, I ended up pulling Adsense Ads off my site.

Granted my site is getting little traffic this weekend.
Anyone else notice this behavior?

[TheDonster]

I have noticed the quality ads seem to get pulled on Friday and reappear on Monday. Weekends always seem to be low both in traffic and clicks so I guess quality advertisers pull out in line with the traffic. Depends on your site but I've seen many publishers mention the weekends are quiet; plus this is also a holiday weekend don't forget.

[Swebbie]

Like so many other things in this type of advertising, it depends on many variables. I have sites (fishing & other sports) that actually do best on weekends, when advertisers know the most interested consumers will be looking because they're thinking about those topics.

About all you can do is max out your ad filter and/or remove the ads completely. AdSense just isn't appropriate on some sites, especially if you don't want to alienate visitors or give the impression that you endorse an advertiser's POV.

I have a dog site too, and I hate ads promoting the selling of puppies. But it's a never-ending battle to block them all. New ones spring up constantly. So I pick and choose where to post AdSense to minimize the chances of 'puppies for sale' ads.

[robsynnott]

These are odd (the political ones). They seem to be done on a global basis, for some reason; I see lots of Bush/Kerry/whoever ads, while living some thousands of kilometers away from those people ;) And no, my sites have nothing to do with politics, American or otherwise.

(I got a lovely ad for George Bush cutout cardboard figures a while back; still find that oddly creepy)

[robsynnott]

On a related note, I have noticed that my revenue tends to go slightly down as the month goes on (once you compensate for slow ongoing rise in pageviews). I suspect this is something to do with advertiser's monthly budgets; there's just less money floating around.

[ann]

Nowhere on my site will you find a mention of psychics but they pepper my site with them...I don't believe in them myself as esp is not a faucet that can be turned on and off at will. many of them have been proven false...makes my site seem to approve of them. Grrrrrrrr

[Swebbie]

I've seen one phrase or sentence throw off that entire page's AdSense ad targeting. The trick is to focus the language like a laser on the main topic and avoid words that might throw off the targeting. You don't want your page to be too stilted, so it takes some practice, but you'll get the hang of it. Avoid cliches and catch phrases that make sense or add a humorous element, but might have words that throw off your targeting. Otherwise you might end up with something like baby clothing ads on your Harley-Davidson motorcycle page (from saying something like "Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.") trying to be too cute.

[ann]

On my site it is totally dedicated to astrology. Trouble is, the Psychics have glommed onto all my keywords and are even ranking ahead on many of my targetted words and phrases. You have to look at the url to even tell they are ads for Psychics.

Same with my numerology site...I could just spit!

Ann

[mickeymart]

thats kinda the way the system works...

besides keyword matching done by google, a lot of the problem is the advertisers themselves.

If someone wants to put up an ad that says google sucks donkey ballz, and buy the keywords sexy lengerie that ad will run until someone picks up on it... could be days.

[ann]

I believe Google really is broken or at least badly bent.

About an hour or so ago I put some filters in my adsense and it showed me thwe sites I had filtered out, Then I went back a minute ago and it said I had no filters....had to do it all over again! Will check later to see if they are holding.

[fearlessrick]

Broken beyond my abiltiy to even want to deal with these morons anymore. It's time Google is exposed for what they really are: a massive shell game and a very unreliable search engine.

[arubicus]

"Broken beyond my abiltiy to even want to deal with these morons anymore. It's time Google is exposed for what they really are: a massive shell game and a very unreliable search engine."

Ok we get the idea now! You are upset with google! Get over it already! This vomit you have been spewing all over the forum is useless as well as getting a bit tiresome.

If you don't want to deal with them anymore then don't. Take any adsense off and block their bot. It is that easy. You can then go happily about your business and we don't have to read around your rants anymore.

[arubicus]

"About an hour or so ago I put some filters in my adsense and it showed me thwe sites I had filtered out, Then I went back a minute ago and it said I had no filters....had to do it all over again! Will check later to see if they are holding. "

This has happened to us before. Keep an extra copy of your filtered sites around especially when you update just in case it happens again.

[ann]

thanks,

Being a little on the lazy side :) I already did that.

[arubicus]

Yep, I get a little lazy at times myself.

[jetteroheller]

My site is non-political and it is imperative that users see my site as unbiased politically. I went to my home page today and there it was, a big anti Bush Ad. A few more clicks followed by a 300x250 "Join the right wing conspiracy" Ad.
I checked the other Ads out and they are just the bottom of the barrell as far as sites go. I tried filtering them out but since it has been an hour already and they are still there, I ended up pulling Adsense Ads off my site.

Granted my site is getting little traffic this weekend.
Anyone else notice this behavior?

Seems You do not earn much money with Your site.

One of my sites is political and I do not mind, when other political parties put ads on my site.

I even to not mind joke parties like "We want again the wall in Berlin"

I only filte on MLM and other unusefull ads for my visitors

[incrediBILL]

My ads all looked fine except one time today I saw a skyscraper with an add about "brain tumors" on the bottom of the list.

It gave me a headache.

[ann]

while earnings fell a litttle below Mar I still like the extra money they bring in. BTW filters worked, all but one and I finally figured it out and have the correct addy in the filter.

Had to add a particular name extension to a resellers url which would make Google 2nd party to that ad and me 3th party. The resellers name went to a "directory" type site.

I think the way my ad income started dropping for this month coincides with the arrival of the Psychic advertisements.

Sheesh, and Google warns us about bad neighborhoods.

[Tropical Island]

Filters:

In our experience it can take 5 to 6 hours before the filters kick in.

[roadhazard]

Well, I am a very new Adsense user, only one month, but I am happy with the results. Only one strange ad, on my page for teenager birthday gift ideas, it showed FUNERAL FLOWERS, ha ha. BUt that was gone soon. I have been satisfied with the ads and the earnings. My site is only one year old so I look forward to good earnings in coming years with Adsense. I have about 1000 pages with an Adsense square block in the heat area on every page. This weekend, sure, earnings are down because of the holiday, people are gone. I think Google does a good job overall on the Adsense ads.