Filter ads by landing URL

To avoid third party redirects

[elfred]

Hi, I'm facing a new challenge. Several (and I'm sure the number will increase) advertisers appear on AdSense via other networks. Those networks obfuscate the real advertisers and you have to either choose to ban the whole network or to leave everything in place. This, for me, makes it impossible to filter out ugly MFAs.
I think that allowing this will hurt AdSense final earnings too, because MFAs that would be blocked using AdSense will go to third party networks and the earnings slice will reduce for AdSense. At the end of the game we will have all the MFAs on the third party networks and not only we won't be able to filter them out, but we will even earn less.
Not bad, isn't it? :-)

[david_uk]

Use the ads by goooooogle link to report them. The adwords TOS says that they do not allow:-

"Redirect URLs: Ads that contain Display URLs that automatically redirect to the parent company.

Bridge Pages: Ads for webpages that act as an intermediary, whose sole purpose is to link or redirect traffic to the parent company. "

Also, the display URL must "accurately reflect" the website. So if "best4.com" is in the url of the ad and it directs to some non-connected domain then they are in violation of the adwords TOS. I've had quite a few claiming to be ask.com redirecting elsewhere. I've reported a few of these, and various other ads to adwords support, and to be honest they actually do remove the ads.

I'd urge you to have a look at the adwords guidelines and tos. Rather than add crappy ads to the filter, write to adwords and get them to deal with the ad.

[elfred]

Thank you for your answer, but I already reported this to Google and I was answered that... they are too big to be removed. I don't know what I'm allowed to write here. I'll go with an example. If OVERTURE (just a name like any other) decides to publish its own ads inventory through ADWORDS you will see ads that show an URL like "www example com/widgets", but the actual landing URL will be something like

WWW OVERTURE COM/ad.php?id=123456

If Overture is a big player, AdWords will never kick it off. What I am experiencing is exactly this. Since Overture (it's just a name to let you understand) is too big to be removed and since Overture publishes its ads using an obfuscated URL, any MFA can advertise through Overture and get published on AdWords. Google will never block them. This means that we still have MFAs appearing in out inventory, that we can't remove them and that we will earn even less from them because of Overture's share.

The fix to this ugly issue is easy: just let us publishers filter on the landing URL too.

[elfred]

By the way: do you really think that such big players will ever get any MFA penalty?

[elfred]

Am I the only one with issue? How do you filter out SHOP4WIDGETS COM ads if the url to filter out is like (slightly modified):

feedpoint net/r/redir.jsp?engine=CAB&pcid=1234567&k=blue%20widget& url=bluewidget-shop4widgets-com/shop4widgets/results.jsp? portal_id=123&domain=bluewidget-search-gg-net&keyword= blue+widget&pop=false&cm_mmc=quigo-_-shop4widgets-_-google-_-computer %20blue%20widget&src=quigo:123456&VT=cnt

?

[edited by: jatar_k at 4:24 pm (utc) on Sep. 30, 2006]
[edit reason] fixed sidescroll [/edit]