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I ended up getting 10,000+ page views and 2.53Gb of traffic off that directory within a couple of days and had nothing to show for it.
Strangely enough, another website has a profanity has part of the domain name, yet Google AdSense still displays the ads on the site.
I also use AdSense as a tracking tool for my website as it updates the fastest.
I do want to use the actual name of the event next time, but I don't want the same thing to happen again.
I can't help what the event was called
Quite, but you can help what you do with your website ;)
I think that's known as 'learning the hard way'.
Still, now you know that their TOS aren't there for fun - and they haven't suspended your account this time!
I do want to use the actual name of the event next time, but I don't want the same thing to happen again.
And that's known as 'learning from your mistakes and repeating them exactly'.
I look forward to hearing how you get on :) :)
I think our options are pretty limited in these cases.
What?! I'd rather not have Google Ads on the site at all if this was the case.
By George He's Got It!
If you wish to promote events and activities that Adsense depracates, then you really do have to choose; if the events bring serious income, and Adsense is marginal, then don't try to 'get away with it' just choose an advertising service with more congenial TOS. It may even get you a bigger Ad income!
Meanwhile, read Adsense's TOS carefully, and see how you stand using it at other times and other places.
It was too late to change the directory name once I had done the mailout and all the ads were displaying when I first checked it.
Don't mean to seem harsh, but it wasn't too late. You just didn't want to change it and lose the benefit of your mailout.
If you wanted to profit from AdSense you knew the choice you needed to make and you didn't do it. Instead, AdSense made the choice for you apparently.
Life is like that. If you don't make a choice when one is needed, someone else will usually end up making the choice for you.
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By the way, how is it you are certain the name of this directory is what caused your probem and not something else? Did you get a direct correspondence from AdSense?
FarmBoy
Or you could change the on-page links *and* the directory name, and re-write or redirect the mail-out URLs to that new directory.
Profanity has no place in professional advertising. It offends people, can cause extremely-serious problems with COPA (U.S. Federal law), and can draw lawsuits. The event organizers, not Google, are to blame.
Jim
[edited by: jatar_k at 1:54 am (utc) on Oct. 5, 2008]
That being said, when Google's AdSense TOS standards are set you've got to live (or die) by them even when they are accidentally or genuinely goofy.
Strangely enough, another website has a profanity has part of the domain name, yet Google AdSense still displays the ads on the site.
You can't play that game...I've run across many sites that are clearly breaking Adsense TOS and have huge traffic numbers. I've reported them and nothing happens. Sometimes I think Google turns the other way for certain people.
Now that I know what it is I will go back and change the workaround for the first one as it looks a bit spammy.
It turns out it was the directory name specifically that was throwing the PSA's
One of my big complaints about Google is the priority they give to words in the URL. Often this results in very poorly targetted ads and there's not much one can do about it.
