Using AdSense Ad Review

Frustrating experience, how to make it better?

[ken_b]

I just started using Ad Review today.

First, it says we need to choose a reason for blocking ads, but that option only seems to appear if I select "block only this adgroup" Is that what others are seeing?

Most often I'd want to block the advertiser entirely, or not at all.

Secondly, is there a limit to how many ads/advertisers you can block in a session?

It seems like after a blocking 70 or so ads/advertisers the system stopped accepting additional choices of any kind, block or allow.

I can block or allow additional sites, but that seems to be limited to 1 action per session.

This can't be right, can it?

All that said, it is pretty interesting to see who is targeting the site and with what kind of ads.

[Jane_Doe]

Maybe I'm not understanding how this works. My site, just hitting its peak season, has been completely taken over by a site targeted ad that it not only totally inappropriate to the site, but it's a text ad filling up a 160x600 spot, so it looks awful too. It's on every page, in every ad block, no matter how many times you refresh. I know for a fact that it's not the highest paying ad available for my site, because I know how much I have been making for the past 30 days before this ad shows up.

I have had similar issues in the past, but not lately. For the last few months or more, I've been getting mostly just on topic content type ads on my sites. But in the past I have had problems with off topic, low paying, site targeted ads showing up all over some of my sites, often bumping the normal well-targeted content ads on high paying topics.

[ken_b]

Maybe I'm not understanding how this works.

Well, you wouldn't be alone.

Along with the nonsense about the 3rd party ads and the privacy policy changes I had a targeted ad running on most of my pages that finally caused me to set the entire site to text only.

It was a image (rich media?) ad that made my pages look like something they definitely are not.

I hadn't seen this ad in the ad review panel, but it may have come in under a previous approval for that advertiser.

But paging back through all the old approved ads is a real pain, and I suspect they made it that way on purpose.

Not happy.

[netmeg]

I blocked the url, and turned adsense back on once I was sure the ad had disappeared. Since then, I've had the lowest epc and ecpm for this amount of traffic since I began with AdSense four years ago. I'm hoping it's going to catch up soon, but not terribly optimistic. Most of the same ads that were running before seem to be back, but of course, that's just what I see, not what anyone else sees. And where my average epc across all clicks is between $.30 and $.50, today it's $.08. Something's definitely weird.