Preview Tool

Is this always going to be useless?

[loner]

This happens quite a bit, but the really nasty ads, the ones I should really keep off my site, well the preview tool rarely shows the url, the ad or anything about it.

For example, my current concern is a page on saving flying widgets and right there next to it is an ad on guns that kids~whatever can use to kill flying widgets.

So, regardless of if I do guess the right url, because it seems the preview tool only shows everything but, will this highly contradictory ad show to people even if I get lucky and block it?

This is just getting worse and worse and the money is less and less. Sure I need the money, but do I have to sacrifice any morals or ethics I have because google won't give any control over the ads on our sites?

[fredw]

The Preview Tool is generally not helpful for determining an ad's url for purposes of adding it to your Competitive Ad Filter. The best way to do that is:

1. CAREFULLY, so as not to click on the ad, RIGHT-click on the ad and click on "Properties".

2. Scroll through the text area called "Address" and inside that big long url you will see "adurl=". The site after that is the ad's real url.

3. Copy and paste only the domain name of the ad into your Competitive Ad Filter. For example, if it says:

adurl=subdomain.example.com/directory1/directory2/page.html

just put "example.com" in your filter.

(Those are the instructions for Windows, sticky me if you're on a mac...)

[netmeg]

I don't think AdSense (or any contextual ad program) is ever going to be very good for a sensitive situation such as that. You're better off finding some good affiliate programs, or if you get a lot of traffic, maybe some CPM ads (or sell direct) There's only so much automation can do.

[loner]

Thanks Fred!