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How could this happen? My site has absolutely nothing to do with drugs..
eesh... I believe it is because the domain name contains the word "gram" that they are relating the site to marijuana..
Why bother reporting something they accepted in the first place?
This is one of those reasons we *NEED* better reporting on what ads are targeting what from what advertisers (and have the ability to ban).
We can only hope for improvement now we got a new ASA.
Be happy you noticed it, I once had a very inappropriate ad seemingly only showing in a far away geolocation. I never noticed it, till I got a loud complaint from a visitor.
I know exactly how you feel. I have a child friendly site and has pictures of bears. Well, I had an irate person email me because "hairy bears" showed a gay site. Not appropiate for my site and very embarrassing for me.
We need something more powerful than the preview tool.
One that could show a *complete* list of advertisers for *all* countries at once.
Showing some adverts per page is not only slow, but doesn't always show the adverts that are presently being displayed. Then, you have to do it for all the other countries.
But to do this, they must also increase how many sites we can block.
All AdWords ads are held to the AdWords Editorial Guidelines (https://adwords.google.com/select/guidelines.html) and Terms and Conditions (https://adwords.google.com/select/TranslatedTermsAndConditions.html). If any ad is found to violate any of these policies, we will remove it immediately.
For details on how you can report an inappropriate Google ad, please see: [google.com...]
As bw2ttt has experienced, until we index a publisher's pages, we may display less-targeted ads. I understand that you are upset at the ads that appeared in this case. Thanks for communicating this to us.
The page in question had been cached for over 3 years and adverts had been on there for at least 3 months before I was informed.
I think that is long enough for google to work out what the site is about, yes ?
May be google could read to see if - and what - PICS-Label is used.
If you ever notice an inappropriate ad, please report it to us and we will be happy to investigate. As I have previously mentioned here, all AdWords ads must comply with the AdWords Editorial Guidelines (https://adwords.google.com/select/guidelines.html) and Terms and Conditions (https://adwords.google.com/select/TranslatedTermsAndConditions.html).
Regarding indexing, when you add your code to a page, our crawlers usually index it within 30 minutes, though it can take 48 hours or more. When you make changes to a page, it can take up to two weeks until the changes appear in our index. During this time, PSAs or less relevant ads can appear.
Lame_Wolf, you mention that your page had been crawled when an inappropriate ad appeared. I'm sorry to hear you have had a negative experience.
It was inappropiate for the site in question, but it is pretty safe to say that all advertisers have had inappropriate adverts, depending on their meaning of the word.
If you ever notice an inappropriate ad, please report it to us and we will be happy to investigate. As I have previously mentioned here, all AdWords ads must comply with the AdWords Editorial Guidelines (https://adwords.google.com/select/guidelines.html) and Terms and Conditions (https://adwords.google.com/select/TranslatedTermsAndConditions.html).
Okay, thank you.
Regarding indexing, when you add your code to a page, our crawlers usually index it within 30 minutes, though it can take 48 hours or more.
They were well established pages.
When you make changes to a page, it can take up to two weeks until the changes appear in our index. During this time, PSAs or less relevant ads can appear.
No changes were made to the page, apart from adding and removing adsense from that section.
Another site I run for someone sells fetish jewelry, again, I have had to remove adsense from that section due to the word "fetish"
It is sad that adsense cannot work the difference out.
It is not bad optimisation on my part, because if you google fetish jewelry, look at the adverts that appear.
Thank you ASA for taking a concern. I wish your peers were doing the same.
Again, our support team is always happy to investigate your concerns about irrelevant or inappropriate ads. Thanks for taking time to report these issues to us.
