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Adsense - Stop Words - Any Options?

         

phantombookman

3:20 pm on Nov 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Hi
I am adding adsense to a site and I believe it is suffering due to PSA's because of stop words.

There is nothing 'iffy' about the site, it is a resource site for collectors. It is, I believe, the titles of mystery novels that are causing the problem (hope this is not too speccific).

I understand why they have stop words, but wondered if there was anyway around it or would Adsense give a suitable site a pass?

Or is the only option to remove adsense (smartpricing and my other sites is the concern)

Any help, experience or thoughts greatly appreciated

cws3di

4:43 pm on Nov 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I ran up against this problem a while back and did some research into the subject.

Everything I read basically said "no way bub".

i.e. if the bot decides they are stopwords, G doesn't make any exceptions.

Sounds like your content could possibly even have some of the words that are really classified as bad, anything to do with de!ath or wea$pons would never get through.

My site had VERY benign words (like telling people in our town that you can now pay your utility bills at the Phar(Y)/macy while you wait for your preXscriptions), and I just started going through one at a time, take one out, refresh the page and voila, a real ad.

In my case, I just decided I could take it off the page, but in your case, those words are titles of you product, hard to give up the keywords on the page, but an alternative might be to make nice .GIF images?

phantombookman

6:19 pm on Nov 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Sounds like your content could possibly even have some of the words that are really classified as bad, anything to do with de!ath or wea$pons would never get through.

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated. One interesting thing I noticed was it does not appear to be the appearance of the words that causes the problem but it seems to be related to either KWD of word or number of times mentioned.

There is no way I can avoid using them, so it may be I have to remove the code from affected pages

Knappster

7:06 pm on Nov 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Genealogy sites can have the same problem--either PSAs or lots of ads for grief counseling. Section targeting that causes certain grim passages to be ignored can work sometimes, but if the stop words are spread throughout your content there's not much you can do.

FTFlash

8:56 am on Nov 20, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Try making the stop words into images, that way google can't read them.