Forum Moderators: martinibuster
I feel these ads are really evil, as they say they are free but then make you sign up with a credit card and charge you monthly. I'm afraid these really appeal to kids who don't know any better.
I keep filtering them but in one of my niches, new ones pop up every day like weeds. My filter list is full, and 75% is <snip>.
Yesterday I filtered the ultimate <snip> ad. It was an article (probably scraped) about the dangers of the <snip> but every time the word <snip> was mentioned in the article (which was a lot), it was a link to the free <snip> site, with lists of free <snip> sites at the bottom.
Is there anything we can do about these <snip> ads?
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:23 am (utc) on Sep. 24, 2006]
[edit reason] no specifics please [/edit]
Most <snip> sites aim to rip off teenagers (via their parents credit cards and phone accounts!).
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:33 am (utc) on Sep. 24, 2006]
[edit reason] see below [/edit]
If you can figure out what keywords they are targeting, then you might be able to take action in one of two ways, without resorting to the blocklist. One would be to remove or replace those keywords wherever possible. The other would be to use "section targeting" to tell the bot to ignore the paragraphs or sections on a page that are triggering the <snip> ads....
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:24 am (utc) on Sep. 24, 2006]
[edit reason] see above... [/edit]
I really wish you could just clip ads by words used in the ad that would be a handy tool and probably wipe out most of my filter list with about 4 words :).
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:24 am (utc) on Sep. 24, 2006]
[edit reason] see above [/edit]
that won't help, because just like ebay, <snip> advertisers are apparently free to pick whatever keywords they want to target their ads at... it doesn't matter whether the keywords are relevant to <snip> or not.
blocking important keywords that are relevant to your site content will also block ads from quality advertisers.
the only fix for this problem is for google to get rid of the adwords trash advertisers that are polluting their network... or give publishers the tools to do things like stop all <snip> advertisers, perhaps as a selectable category(?).
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:25 am (utc) on Sep. 24, 2006]
[edit reason] see above [/edit]
Blocked Keywords Filter
*.info
allthe*
best
cash
cheap*
directory
discount*
easy
free
gift
less
money
quick*
quote*
result*
ring*
search*
Save list
Please, anyone at the Plex, if you're reading this, either give us a feature like this, or more space in our filter lists. As chance1376 said, we care about our visitors, and we don't want these ripoff ads reflecting on our sites!
More craps filter:
about*
top*
all*
*sites
blog*
find*
great*
hot*
links*
www-*
I wonder if the Quality Score devastation over in AdWords forced more people into the <snip> market.
<snip> ad pushers will also tend to focus (i.e.: "Advertise on this site") on sites popular with teenagers. I remember reading a <snip> article about how he was experimenting with CPC arbitrage, and used <snip> as his vehicle. Once he focused his ads (via the method mentioned above) he was making a tidy profit.
Makes me think I want to go turn the "Advertise on this Site" option off on my account. Not that I have enough pageviews (<1,000 per day) to make anything from that anyway...
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:26 am (utc) on Sep. 24, 2006]
[edit reason] see above [/edit]
We don't outting other members here or get into specific keywords that could be the heart of another members site or ad campaign. We've never been in to the attack (intentional or not) of members here.
The idea of the thread is sound - but lets just stick to general "keywords we don't like" instead of specific sites and ads owned by fellow members.
