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Is that why I see two German language ads on my page? Removing the word "Austrian" won't budge one of the two ads.
I can't see that being of value to people in English-language countries.
All I can see in the policies is this:
"In order to avoid associations with copyright claims, website publishers may not show AdWords ads in areas such as MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results"
There could also be a geotargeting issue here as well.
For the quick and easy solution, just add the domains of the Austrian ads to your filter list.
Can you complain to Google's Adsense that they are using Adsense on a site with material that is yours --> may get them booted from the program, which they deserve.
You would think so, but while the Cust Support-DMCA side of Google was fairly quick in getting the first result out of the SERP (the so-and-so has done it three times at three domains), Adsense-Support-DMCA has been "looking" at it since mid-December (and acknowledged the two later copies) and has certainly not pulled his account. He has a lot of copied content that shows up in the SERPs but I can't see it if I came in from the top of his sites. The latest copy of my article cut it down to just the first para, complete with an Aussie expression that won't be seen in any other English-speaking country. Just enough to trigger topical ads.
If I had to double-guess the Adsense people, if Google has deleted the SERP entry, why should they kill his whole account? He has plenty of other pages with Adsense code. As time permits, I have made it my mission to find every original author who has been copied and I have started contacting them.
One would also think that any Adsense revenue he has derived from my article should come to me. That is the only acceptable test that the system works.
I think the experience will help me fill my next monthly magazine editorial (which is well indexed in Google) :)
Jenstar, I didn't realise that it needed a fresh respidering to get the German connotation out of the system. Temporarily blocked it
with a filter.
Ash
Jenstar, I didn't realise that it needed a fresh respidering to get the German connotation out of the system.
Yes, that is why pages with ever-changing content have a hard time showing relevant ads, since they could be showing ads targeted to last week's news and not this week's.
Americans are notorious for their Geo-ignorance - do you suppose that some Austrian adwords bidders have targeted "australia keyword", since, Australia most certainly gets mentioned on your site.
I only mention because, when the "Terminator" became governor of California there was a funny interview with the mayor of his home town in Austria who was quoted saying something like "hopefully this will help Americans stop confusing Austria with Australia".
Anyhow, you can block the domains for those ads from your Adsense control panel.
I only mention because, when the "Terminator" became governor of California there was a funny interview with the mayor of his home town in Austria who was quoted saying something like "hopefully this will help Americans stop confusing Austria with Australia".
Years ago, before the euro was introduced, I tried to buy a draft in Austrian Schillings at a Chicago bank. The foreign-currency teller gave me a superior look and said, "They don't use the shilling, they use the dollar." Of course, that wasn't any worse than the advertising-agency art director who never could remember the difference between Sweden and Switzerland. :-)
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