List of crappy advertisers polluting Adsense

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[born2run]

Hi have you noticed adverts in your site and if you visit that site (from the URL using adsense preview tool) to see actually what it is, it's a site full of ads and search links?!

Or, they advertise something via Adwords and the site theme is actually totally different?

I realize that earnings could go down by adding these kinds of sites to the banned URL list but what about the site visitors who click on these ads? They must get irritated...

I'm sure there are publishers here whose ban lists are full of such sites ;-)

[Dantol]

I don't ban any advertisers from my site, because in overhelming majority of cases, ads displayed on my pages match with the content (and pay reasonable rates).

[ownerrim]

[webmasterworld.com...]

same thing noted on this thread

[badtigger]

I find it funny that they dont support showing ads for guns or pharmaceuatical products, which are legal products, but they allow this crap...

[asp4bunnies]

I don't think anyone's ever died from reading a bad ad.

[badtigger]

The funny thing is that i still see ads all the time for these topics. The other day, I was looking at a fitness site, which was had three adblocks on it, and everyone of them had ads for "buy steroid x--for $$". And looking at outdoor living type sites, I still see ads for guns.

I guess it all seems so skewed: disallow publishers to have certain content while taking money from advertisers who make ads for that content. And at the same time turn this blind eye to all sorts of adsense spam.

[incrediBILL]

I don't think anyone's ever died from reading a bad ad.

ROFLMAO - that's a good one.

I'll let the Banned of Merry Men do their thing, I'm too busy cashing the checks to worry about it and there's no humanly possible way I could ever check all the ads on all my pages to start with.

[ann]

And, when they do get irritated they will more than likely remember the ads by goooooogle logo and get P.O.'d at google, not you

[badtigger]

I don't think anyone's ever died from reading a bad ad.

It is funny, yes, but it is sad as well. Considering that nobody has ever been killed either by looking at an ad for arthritis medication or skeetshooting firearms, or killed by looking at ads for bowhunting -- all of which are topics that publishers are not allowed to create ads for. Again, all of which are legal products in the USA.

The OP's question essentially was "why does G allow advertisers to create crappy ads?"

My question, is the siamese-twin question of the OP's:

Why does Google allow advertisers to create ads for topics, such as guns, knives, prescription drugs,etc., which publishers are not allowed to create sites for?

If you look at any sites for these topics, you will see a plethora of ads for these things, which shows that they are allowing ads to be created for these topics.

Both of these questions are related, as they both likely have the same answer...

[cagey1]

It seems that half the the complaints around here are "My EPC is going down!" and the other half are "How do I get rid of all these crappy advertisers?"

It is kinda funny when you think about it.

[incrediBILL]

Maybe it's the ad blocking fanatics losing all the money, you may be onto something there :)

[ypsites]

I find it funny that they dont support showing ads for guns or pharmaceuatical products, which are legal products, but they allow this crap...

I could not agree more. I find it mostly amusing, sometimes irritating, when someone from Google notifies me that (in their opinion) using a certain kind of punctuation or tense is "incorrect" or when I'm told I can't run an ad for a keyword that makes perfect sense to my users simply because no one at Google is familiar enough with my category to see the connection.

But then if you go to Google and search on "broken leg," lo and behold, the ubiquitous eBay ad inviting you to search for one up for sale ... and then you really can see how much more "helpful" and "relevant" ads are with all this extra scrutiny!

You just have to laugh!

[dutch_dude]

And, when they do get irritated they will more than likely remember the ads by goooooogle logo and get P.O.'d at google, not you

Reminds me of a visitor who emailed me because they bought some software product from my site that turned out to be not very helpful. I didn't understand what they were talking about at first as I don't sell anything, then I realized it must have been an ad on my site. lol

[jetteroheller]

As I started banning, CTR went up 20%

I had at that time at most pages only one 120x240.

So the ad space was fast filled up with nonsens.

Now I have more than 120 in the filter.