Triggering public ads

Can't avoid using certain words

[hairycoo]

On one of my sites I have a section about ghost tours and can't not use words like gore, gruesome, dead, ghosts, ghouls, cemetery, graveyard, torture, hangings etc.

Obviously "dead" would trigger PS ads and I could avoid it... but I can't avoid all the rest... the page would sound too weird without them, plus these are included in the names of the tours. There's one called "Dead City Tours"! How can I review it if I can't mention "dead"

[edited by: hairycoo at 1:59 pm (utc) on Nov. 30, 2005]

[malachite]

Contact AS support, explain the problem and ask them to review the page.

[Thez]

Try using the AS targeting snippets in your html code, that might also help.

[hairycoo]

Didn't know that was possible... thanks, will try it out.

[hyperkik]

Definitely contact AdSense Support. I once had a similar issue with certain stop words which they "magically" fixed from their end.

[malachite]

Try using the AS targeting snippets in your html code, that might also help.

It may not help in this case. I had a similar problem with an article which refused to show anything other than PSAs no matter what I did with it. I posted about the problem here, and ASA got it sorted for me - hence my suggestion to contact support for a manual review of the problem page.

At the time, I didn't know about "stop words" but now realise it was probably the words "hanging" and "dead" which caused the problem - like the OP, unavoidable usage, relevant to the page topic and nothing nasty! :)