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The advertiser in question is a big Hardcore Video in Demand site. I think the reason they passed Adwords filter is their landing page does not have any Porn/Nudity in it. It just have an image of a woman's butt and asked visitors to enter their email address to send them a free "15 minute dirty video." Does this mean they are not breaking Adwords policy?
Im surprised that Adsense has double standard. Adsense does not want web publishers to place "adult" content but they themselves run "adult" ads.
For me, my users are more important than a little extra $$$. I would much rather ban the advertiser than to have my users associate my site with that advertiser.
For me, my users are more important than a little extra $$$.
True, very true. I wouldn't allow those on my sites either. But the issue is about the OPs site. From what he's told us so far, his users love clicking on adult ads. If he really cares about his users, from what he's told us so far, he's serving his site visitor's interest by leaving the ads on his site.
Why are your site visitors so hot to click on adult ads?
Why are your site visitors so hot to click on adult ads?
Perhaps because they want to see naked bodies? ;)
...just concern that the advertiser will change its url again and try to use Adwords again and again.
Unfortunately, that's a part of the "whack-a-mole" game.
Until Google begans adequately screening advertisers and their ad-copy, many advertisers (such as those advertising adult sites) will continue changing and disguising their URL's.
Bingo. This is a classic case of AdSense as Content.
Your ads have become a block of content displaying content that is otherwise missing from your site. For instance, if you're pulling in visitors who are looking for discount widgets, but you don't sell widgets, you just talk about discount widgets, the content your site visitors are looking for will be in the ads. Since the content they are looking for exists only in the ads, you will consequently have a click-fest on your hands. Kaching!
If this is what your users want, why are you going against them and blocking the ads? Why in the world would you block something your users are looking for? If you care about your users, whacking a mole makes no sense at all for the OPs situation.
[edited by: martinibuster at 5:04 pm (utc) on April 6, 2007]
Why is this happening? Are they bidding that much? I don't know how bidding works. Can you explain to me why their ad is getting prominent spot?
And every time I refresh my page, their ad is appearing on the number 1 spot every time.
If this really is a bad site - which it sounds like - then report it to Google. As far as I am aware no adult material is allowed to be advertised.
My CTR is almost the same 1.22% ; eCPM $0.50.
let 'em ride
If my site is for mature people, I will not filter that kind of ads untill the landing page is clean. It completely depends on your users, so let them decide.
If you get any complain from your user regarding that ad, then you should think seriously about it.
[edited by: SteveWh at 5:21 am (utc) on April 7, 2007]
Just out of curiosity, can Adsense ban you because you are displaying ads to an adult site? I mean it is not your fault that Google serves you these ads. They should fault themselves first.
If indeed Google Adsense can ban you because of this, then it is very very dangerous for publishers who set up their website, display GA ads and the just let it run automatically without checking their sites. What about the publisher with 1000s of pages? surely he can't monitor all the pages every single day.
From my investigation, I believe Adsense label their Premium publisher sites. Example if a big company like Ford bought ads from Adwords, the site publishers that Adsense labeled will have the Ford ads appear on their site.
YOur site can be labeled as: Country Name; Type of viewers: Men, Teens, Women or Gay; Type of Site: Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, etc.
I think my site fall in this category: "USA", "Mature Men", "Entertainment".
jbayabas, IMHO if your site is accessible by minors then you should block this ad....it is very very dangerous for publishers who set up their website, display GA ads and the just let it run automatically without checking their sites. What about the publisher with 1000s of pages? surely he can't monitor all the pages every single day.
Remember that as publishers we can't know which ads our site visitors are seeing on their computers in their locations by observing which ads are appearing on our computer at our location.
This idea that we can monitor our sites and keep out ads we don't want to appear is a myth. Sure we can spot some offenders from time to time and block them, but we really don't know what is being displayed that we don't see.
This idea that we can monitor our sites and keep out ads we don't want to appear is a myth. Sure we can spot some offenders from time to time and block them, but we really don't know what is being displayed that we don't see.
AND it damages one's sites credibility. My site happens to have a large following among large firms of architects, and they show the pages or some of them to clients. They are very embarrassed when adverts for pornography appear! And who gets the blame? Me!
My site is also used by children, if they access it at school and a teacher sees adverts for hard core ponography the site will be black listed, who suffers? ME!
Matt
