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It used to be a new filter entry took effect in a couple of hours, but now consistantly it seems to take a day or even two for ads that I've added to my filter list to finally stop showing on my sites.
ASA, any possibility someone could look into this?
I know on friday I was amazed at how few MFA ads where showing up. I thought the Adwords changes on the content side had gotten rid of the MFA advertisers. Here on Sunday I clearly see a return of MFA advertising.
On the C ad Filter page on google it says "Changes will take effect within a few hours."
"Copy and paste this value into the competitive ad filter text box in your AdSense account and click Save Changes. It may take up to 4 hours for ads linking to these URLs to be filtered from your pages."
I finished running a test where I had blocked all MFA's
then that "test" is worth thousands of dollars, get it patented quick ;)
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I added a few sites 2 days ago and they are still showing.
Normally I'd add them to the filter and they'd be gone in 12 to 24 hours.
So it seems the competitive ad filter is broken?
BUT, did you get the right URL?
In theory adwords advertisers aren't allowed to make them different (only shorten them), but Google doesn't actively enforce that part all too much. If you find them different, try to report them in addition to blocking them, there is always the chance they might get kicked out completely.
It seems they are just taking longer these days to update the filter, perhaps a glitch resulting from the new landing page quality score algo?
Just signed up been lurking about for a bit.
Adsense help says 48 hours but I have had it go as far as 72
Also watch www. Paste the url in without the www and if it flips to the www included in the adress that is the one you must block.
And watch hyphens 8bestsites, 8-bestsites
If it doesn't appear in the preview try typing it in or refresh the page and it may show the second time.
Bob
[edited by: TheTraveler at 2:36 am (utc) on Nov. 20, 2006]
