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The complaints rarely come in with the full advert text, URL etc, so it makes it very difficult (and time consuming) for me to chase it up -- especially as I'm not seeing the adverts (I'm in Indonesia, but the adverts appear to be showing only to viewers in North America and Australia).
The problem is, readers often aren't too savvy regarding Adsense and think that they're adverts I'm sourcing directly, so I get tarred with the same brush.
Any suggestions on how to deal with this -- or is it just a necessary evil of being a part of the program?
The problem is, readers often aren't too savvy regarding Adsense and think that they're adverts I'm sourcing directly, so I get tarred with the same brush.Any suggestions on how to deal with this -- or is it just a necessary evil of being a part of the program?
Sounds like you're having a similar problem as some political sites. The webmaster likes candidate X and writes about the shortcomings of candidate Y. Google picks up on the text about candidate Y and puts up ads supporting candidate Y which the readers who support candidate X don't like.
You may have to try and find as many as you can and put them in your filter or simply decide AdSense is not a good fit for that page.
-- "Thai women make ideal brides" was one snippet a reader sent me.
If you happen to locate one of these companies that has a generous returns policy, let me know.
FarmBoy
The site is for sex holidays to Asia and this is in the title tags:
"Adult sex travel or single travel for prostitution"
Of course I've now added it to my blocked URLs, but in the meantime the advert has been running on the site for upwards of a month ... but where was the Adwords QC?
I wouldn't have thought you'd need a nuclear-powered algorithm to catch that as being in clear contravention of the Adwords terms.
Pepito -- I googled the phrase you suggested and the #1 result was for WebmasterWorld!
Some years ago I had a small site focused on Southeast Asian travel and such. It was pre-AdSense and mostly -- or at least thought to be going in -- supported by banner ads (again, pre-AdSense).
I wound up having to reject most of the ads people wanted to run because they were in the same line as those you're talking about now. Wound up bartering or giving away impressions to the more legitimate hotels and resorts just to keep up with my available inventory.
This next sentence is not meant to be an indictment of the whole.
One of the things you have to realize is that many of the legitimate operators in that area are actually piggy-backing on the other folks' ads; they do know which side on which their bread is buttered.
As for Google at this point, well, many reports over the past few months have pointed to it not doing it's job on ad reviews.
Should the phrase "Adult sex travel or single travel for prostitution" be nuked before it's displayed on content sites? Well, of course it should, and according to G it should. Why it's not, well, you know, sometimes a nice snail mail letter to the Chairman or the CEO works wonders. Forget about all this automated maybe we'll get to something sometimes feedback. Go to the source; it does eventually work its way down.
