Misleading AdSense Ads

[farmboy]

I was browsing through some of my own pages tonight and on several leaderboard displays 3 out of the 4 ads were the misleading ads that lead to parked pages.

It never ceases to amaze me how a person can buy an AdWords ad and send traffic to a page with content and ads and possibly end up in hot water with AdSense, yet a person can buy an AdWords ad and send traffic to a page with no content, just ads, and be in the good graces of AdSense.

P.S. I'm not seeing these misleading ads with YPN.

FarmBoy

[uhwebs]

crappy adwords accounts still make $$ for google... scamming adsensers cost them money. As long as that is true I think they'll be more lenient toward their adsense clients.

[Scurramunga]

I have reported many of these misleading ads to google, yet they remain operational.

[jatar_k]

I'm not sure how many times we are going to cover this issue

[google.com...]

it's legal and encouraged, no point worrying about it

[farmboy]

I'm not sure how many times we are going to cover this issue
[google.com...]

it's legal and encouraged, no point worrying about it

I'm not sure who you're addressing that to, but speaking for myself, I'm aware that parked pages are allowed. (Not a legal issue)

In fact, if someone has a domain and wants to park it and earn revenue, it's not a big deal from my perspective.

But when the person purchases an ad and uses misleading text in the ad to get people to visit the parked page, that's a different issue and it's the subject of this thread.

I'm not aware that Google encourages misleading ad text.

And I do think misleading ads are something to be concerned about unless you have some type of site where you don't care about your visitors, your reputation, getting referrals, etc.

FarmBoy

[jatar_k]

so then it's an AdWords issue

allowing misleading ads

or

doesn't quality score take care of these things

doesn't actually have anything to do with parked pages or AdSense specifically

or an arbitrage issue maybe

[beingaquatic]

why don't you filter some 200 parked domain crappy ads which pay some cents to advertise on your site? i suggest filtering MFA's too.

[farmboy]

why don't you filter some 200 parked domain crappy ads which pay some cents to advertise on your site? i suggest filtering MFA's too.

That works until the quantity exceeds 200 and there are new arrivals weekly.

so then it's an AdWords issue

allowing misleading ads

or

doesn't quality score take care of these things

doesn't actually have anything to do with parked pages or AdSense specifically

or an arbitrage issue maybe

Well, I'm an AdSense publisher, so when I see misleadiing ads on my site in my AdSense displays, I tend to see it as an AdSense issue.

But hey, I can take a hint. I won't discuss misleading AdSense ads here again.

Farmboy

[jatar_k]

It's not necessarily that we shouldn't talk about misleading ads

the trick is that there are so many other facets to these ads

We know there are misleading ads, we see them all the time, people posting in AdSense that they see misleading ads is a statement of fact and threads about them go nowhere or someone ends up dropping specifics, which ruins the whole thread

If we want to address the actual issue then we need to look at it objectively and try to understand where the problem actually occurs.

how to deal with these ads is an AdSense issue and simple to answer

filter them or attempt to retarget content to try and get different ads

If we want to analyze why G allows them then we should look more at the AdWords side of things

If we want to analyze parked domains, as pointless as that is, then the Domains forum is a good place for that

If you wanted to talk about dynamic delivery or some other such selective coding you could look at the PHP, Perl or maybe Apache

just because the word AdSense shows up in a post doesn't mean the heart of it has anything at all to do with AdSense

[ann]

Jatar K,

Fantastic spin you have on things. Could it be this thread may have stepped on someones toes? Since when have you or anyone else been such a purist about topics as you are being on this?

Frankly I am with Farmboy on this issue.
Misleading ads are a blackeye to Googles rep and to those others who use them...Of course I don't suppose reputation means a whole lot to so called webmasters of these parked domains and MFA sites.

Ann

[koan]

I agree with Ann, as an adsense publisher, I am interested and concerned about that topic, I don't see why there is a sudden need to be scientifically correct with how the problem is labeled and where it is posted. If it is somewhat related to adsense, I like to be informed about it.

[jatar_k]

>> Could it be this thread may have stepped on someones toes?

not mine, I own 1 domain, it is personal and locked down

I would like to see people get the most out of the forum though

as I said before

just because the word AdSense shows up in a post doesn't mean the heart of it has anything at all to do with AdSense

>> I like to be informed about it

and well you should, there are some extremely interesting things in all the forums here that people need to be informed of, they aren't all in the AdSense forum though

>> Since when have you or anyone else been such a purist about topics

I move threads every single day, but I only talk about it once in a while.

but I guess I am completely OT

yes, misleading ads shouldn't be allowed in AdWords so then they would not show in AdSense ;)

[beingaquatic]

except filtering i've got an alternative. try looking for keywords which have more "advertiser competetion". i'm not talking about ruining your text with keywords but instead of using a relatively cheap keyword use some synonyms for which advertisers compete more. those misleading ads won't appear coz they aren't bidding a huge amount of money.

[beingaquatic]

oh and in case you don't know how to see advertiser's competetion for the keywords you have. try this page [adwords.google.com...]

or you can even try signing up with adwords to get an idea of estimated CPC and max bids.
-hope it helps