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for example, in the adwords ad, the display URL might be ABC.com, but if I click on the link in preview tool, the landing page URL is actually XYZ.com.
the landing page XYZ.com is pure MFA garbage, while the display URL ABC.com acutally turns out to be a legit site.... So what to do? I filter out XYZ.com obviously, but it seems that doesn't stop the ad from displaying? So i'm thinking of filtering out the display URL ABC.com as well... Thoughts on this?
I'm getting really frustrated and more than a little irritated that I have to make this much effort. Doubleclick, in my opinion, is rife with fraud. I don't like it. I don't want their ads on my sites!
I'm also finding that there are MFA landing pages that use several different display URLS. For example, MFA site XYZ.com might actually have 3 or 4 differnet display URLs like ABC.com DEF.com, GHI.com etc...!
And also, I'm finding some of these MFA use the URL of completely legit sites. One standout example is this MFA site, I forgot the URL, used www.fastenal.com as its display URL. (Fastenal is a multi billion public company, so I doubt they're even aware that their URL is being used by MFAs...)
Is blocking both the display URL and landing URL the only way to filter out these garbage MFAs?
I thought Adsense removed the 200 line limit, but I hit the limit the other day, and had to go through the entire list to remove some of it...
The "fat" ads were famous for showing someone else's URL on the face, but if you looked at the link location, it goes to an entirely different URL.
I'm getting disgusted with this, too. I thought there was a time when AdWords was careful to check ads before they were accepted. I know that at one time I had some rejected for some very minute things.
PS. I also notice sometimes the filtered sites still keep on showing.
Yep, that's an ongoing problem. Even big boy sites like ebay, shopzilla etc. They just won't go away.
Yep, that's an ongoing problem. Even big boy sites like
From my observations it's just the big boy sites that appear to be immune to filtering. I guess someone at Google actually made a profitable case for this feature.
I thought Adsense removed the 200 line limit, but I hit the limit the other day
A while ago Google removed the information that the filter is limited to 200 instances from the filter page, so many publishers thought that the limit was removed when in fact it was not. Google just does not tell you about the limit unless you hit it.
doubleclick garbage
I opted out of CPM ads, and recently switched back to "text only" ads. So far I seem to have no (big) issue with misleading ads from Doubleclick on our sites.
I've been complaining about this to Adsense (and on this forum) for at least the last two months... no effect.
Me too. ASA did get involved, but very briefly. No feedback or update as to what is happening from him/her since.
