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The reason I had resisted doing so until now was the poor targeting of ads I saw on other sites like mine.
The first few days were pretty encouraging. Most of the ads shown were fairly well targeted. There were exceptions, but they were definitely the minority.
Yesterday and today the ads shown have been far less than what I consider acceptable for my site.
I do understand that the ads shown can vary depending on ads available at the moment, but the ads from yestr=erday and today are way off the mark. I'd rather they show PSAs for the most part than have what's been running yesterday and today.
I tried setting up some exclusions earlier today, hopefully that will help. It hasn't yet, but maybe more time is needed for it to take effect.
The FAQ says it takes a few hours. Is that what others have seen actually happening?
Also, when setting up exclusions, if you are getting ads from www.***.com/blah/blah.htm, do you need to use the exact url, or can you exclude all ads from that domain by using www.***.com without the folders shown on the url when you copy it?
The FAQ says it takes a few hours. Is that what others have seen actually happening?
Yes.
Also, when setting up exclusions, if you are getting ads from www.***.com/blah/blah.htm, do you need to use the exact url, or can you exclude all ads from that domain by using www.***.com without the folders shown on the url when you copy it?
Check the Properties of the URL by right clicking on the ad. www.abcd.com is different than abcd.com so if you are getting ads for both, they should both be entered into your filter. Those entire domains will then be excluded.
Check the Properties of the URL by right clicking on the ad. www.abcd.com is different than abcd.com so if you are getting ads for both, they should both be entered into your filter. Those entire domains will then be excluded.
Thanks Blue_Fin;
That's what I did. But I'm still unsure if I need to include everything after the slash that follows the www.***.com or ***.***.com, or ***.com. As in ***.com/folder/something.htm.
Do I need to include the /folder/something.htm or can I exclude everything from that domain by just excluding the www.***.com, etc?
Ok, I'm easily confused, so I hope that makes sense.
To filter out all ads from a particular domain, you can simply enter domainname.com in your URL filter list. Note the absence of the "www." prefix - leaving this out will allow the system to block ads from www.domainname.com and domainname.com, as well as any of their subfolders.
You don't need to add the entire path to the filter list.
ASA.
Thanks!
