AdSense showing competitors

[bigdaddy1]

I added Adsense on my site, but removed it after I saw that Google was advertising my competition. Why would Google advertise my competiton? If I'm selling lets say, tee-times and hotels in a certain city, then I could understand Google advertising flights, golf stores, golf lessons, but I don't want them to advertise other companies that offer tee-times and hotels. Thanks.

[edited by: bigdaddy1 at 3:50 pm (utc) on Nov. 16, 2005]

[hunderdown]

Hey, you need to read the information that Google provides--you can easily block your competitors by adding their URLs to a block list.

The reason your competition is showing up is that they bid on the keywords that would get them on your site--it's an automatic system.

[Zygoot]

That's just the way Google AdSense works. AdSense is about showing relevant ads.

If your site is about hotels in a certain city AdSense will do its best to offer the most relevant ads, and in this case the ads will be about hotels in that city.

[kartiksh]

But, you can still use AdSense and apply competitor filter in your account to avoid your competitor’s ads on your website. Also note Google’s ads are contextually served by automated system.