Blocking websites from adsense doesn not work

[jakob77]

I noticed lots of people who are affiliates of dating sites place ads on googleadwords themselves.

So I want to block all urls from affiliate programmes and only have direct website links.

However the description about how to get the url does not match the url structure:

[pagead2.googlesyndication.com...]
The actual URL of the ad that you will want to filter can be found between the url?q= and the &sa= portions of the address.

There is no?q and &sa on my links....

[jim_w]

In the add URL section, just add the domain.ext. If i wanted to ban WW I would enter ...

webmasterworld.com

And it does work. What I did was, I did a search for KW and then took all the domains that I wanted blocked and blocked them.

To get the domain name, you can click on the Ads By Google to get a page of advertisers in that group. DO NOT CLICK ON AN ACTUAL AD whatever you do.

[Jenstar]

You can also block ads using whatever URL they display in their ad (under the description on certain AdSense ads)

[jakob77]

Are the following a direct urls or are theseby peoplewho also earns money in between me and them by using google to promote a affiliate links?

domain.com/clickthru/clickthru.act%3Fa%3D6371%26context%3Danrr

www.domain.com/wp.epl%3Fa%3A161

click.domain.com/MTN/go/gglxxams00715327mtn/direct/01/

domain.com/go/f12038.subdating_singles_0123

[numbers have been changed!]

[edited by: Jenstar at 9:47 pm (utc) on Dec. 9, 2003]
[edit reason] Sorry, no URLs as per TOS [/edit]

[Jenstar]

Those are likely affiliates advertising - most will state something like "Aff" in their description. You can just go ahead and block domain.com and www.domain.com and it should block all affiliates for those sites.

[jakob77]

i dont want to block the domain, i only want to block sub-affiliates of this domains as i dont want to have those ****x earn money for nothing.

[loanuniverse]

Well, those people are assuming certain risks. It is not like they are not doing anything. I think is best to block sites only if you find the target/product/service objectionable. Even then, I think it should be up to the consumer to decide in most cases.

[linear]

Even then, I think it should be up to the consumer to decide in most cases.

Yeah, I'm a pretty laissez-faire kind of guy myself, but that's his inventory, and in my book he gets to decide how it gets used (within the TOS, etc. etc.).