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It has been about 8 or 9 hours now, and ads for those sites are no longer showing, except Ebay ads.
I entered it as "ebay.com" to block any subdomains from showing up.
What gives?
I'd conjecture that there's some ad-serving caching going on, and it takes longer to eliminate an advertiser that's bidding on thousands of keywords than it does to eliminate a smaller one. But that'd be just a stab in the dark, mind.
I did catch an ad running for one of the other domains I filtered last night, so I'll wait some more and see if they all go away.
I'll add another vote for a keyword filter! ;-)
On the plus side, at least the French ads are no longer running.
This is very difficult to catch and filter.
A lot of affiliates display ebay but direct to some other URL.This is very difficult to catch and filter.
The "Ebay" ad was an affiliate that looks like it's using a third-party ad server to redirect the traffic to Ebay. At least, that's my best guess. Obviously, I don't want to click on the ad to find out!
Added that third-party web site to the list.
Also, another ad I was having problems with, I found the URL they are using, and it's a shopping mall type site. No content, just all links. Added that to the list too.
Now, to just sit back and wait for the ads to stop running...
Anyway, use the preview tool to see the underlying without clicking any ads.
On top of that, they are all selling the same widgets, and these ads are appearing on pages that have nothing to do with widgets.
On another site, I sell the same widgets, which is why I don't want any widget ads showing. I have a link to my widgets site, but I've placed that within the "ignore" AdSense tags.
And, ringtones. These ads appear on pages with content that has nothing to do with ringtones, or music, or phones, etc. And, no, I don't sell ringtones on another site, nor do I have any ringtone links/
AdSense needs a keyword filter. Irrelevant ads are a waste of resources, and Google's algo's are clearly not up to the task of determining relevancy.
The Google Adsense frame source is very wide, but all the URL's are there to the right of each "adurl=" you find.
Sample extract from text file:
adurl=http://www.example.com/services/&client=
The URL is:
"http://www.example.com/services/"
With Internet Explorer
It sounds like the Advertiser in question may be breaking the Adwords Terms of Service.
So if this were true one way to get rid of the ads would be to report this to Adwords.
Adwords Editorial and Site Guidelines [adwords.google.com]
The Google Adsense frame source is very wide, but all the URL's are there to the right of each "adurl=" you find.
Sample extract from text file:
adurl=http://www.example.com/services/&client=
That's what I did. Not the first time around, mind you, but that's what I have been doing subsequently.
The Google Adsense frame source is very wide, but all the URL's are there to the right of each "adurl=" you find.
Sample extract from text file:
adurl=http://www.example.com/services/&client=The URL is:
"http://www.example.com/services/"
Just a reminder that the only portion of that URL that you really need to use is: example.com
I wish google adwords would refuse to run ads that go to a redirect facility and would not allow different display URLs (just shorter ones)
An advertiser not even owning a website ... what good can come of it?
When you find the URL you want, use the full URL to see a redirect occur, or just use the domain to see where it all starts.
Better yet, use the "live HTTP headers" extension of Firefox and use the full URL to see the entire path with all redirections.
JUST DON'T CLICK ON THE ADS, EVER! The Google man will get you!
