need more than 200 filters

Google should allow wildcards, increase limit

[amznVibe]

With the number of sites I run and the number of pure garbage/spammy ads out there, I now find myself needing more than 200 filters. I wonder how many others are in the same boat.

Google could fix this by doing one or all of the following:
1. increase the filter limit to 300 or even 500
2. allow wildcards in the filter list (ie. free-*.info, earn-?33k-a-year.*)
3. allow partial words without extensions in the filter list (ie. free)

It's starting to get overwhelming.
There is one advertiser that seems to come up with a new domain variation or extension (tld) every few days. They know they are being blocked so they just come up with another way to get a little more attention for their garbage for a few more hours until someone notices. And the number of wildly off-topic ads grows weekly.

Please give us more options Google.

[amznVibe]

From my experience if you filter "example.com" it will block any ad that uses "example.com" in its printed url or it's hidden url, ie:
www2.example.com/widgets
blah.example.com
the above will be blocked, however "bad-example.com" will not be blocked (of course)

[ownerrim]

when you have a number of websites or simply one site that spans a wide range of content, 200 just doesn't cut it

[icedowl]

See Jenstar's great post:
[webmasterworld.com...]

I currently have only one domain in my filter list. My results are far better than when I was blocking scads of domains.

Try it. It works.

[jrstark]

If there is a pattern, write to google. I started getting webhosting, php, bulletin board ads etc., was blocking like crazy. I finally wrote to google, sent them screenshots, and they fixed it.

[annej]

I only have to filter out of few ads now but for a while I had a health related site with adsense on it. I soon realized there were way too many miracle cures and such in adwords to ever be able to keep up with blocking them all so that site is just affiliate now. I wish there were a way to note that I want healthy living ads not questionable cures but until there is I'll go without adsense on that site.

[amznVibe]

With all due respect to Jenstar's advice not to over-filter, I do my filtering very carefully.

I've caught on to how the same ad on a different page generates more per click than on another page, so I know not to block it. I also know that many of the ads are not just slightly off topic but wildly off topic based on singularly mentioned keywords that Google insists are important.

Last but certainly not least, I find some of the ads vulgar and/or not suitable for minors to even be tempted with and sometimes Google's targeting is way off base. It's my perogative to block.

My adsense income goes up about 10% every month with the same traffic so I must be doing something right. Would it be so hard for Google to at least double the number of filters allowed if they only allow us to have one Adsense account regardless of the number of websites?