Email - AdSense Violation Report

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[Sally Stitts]

I haven't seen one of these in years.

"... violations found on specific pages of your websites"
(Notice plural, plural and plural.) Which is BY DEFINITION, BS. Obfuscation squared.
" In the last 24 hours, new violations were detected." HUH?

But, of course, no reference as to where - so once again, it is "go fish".
In other words, spend hours trying to guess where the transgressions are.
Without any clue, their admonitions are so unhelpful.
They assume that we are omniscient. Presumably, therefore, willful violators.

Sometimes, we are not. Hows about a little help?
Can anyone suggest an easy approach to find these transgressions?
Anyone?
The fighting of REAL fires occupies most of my time.
Hunting for undisclosed subtleties of unacceptable behavior is a time waster, big time.
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[edited by: Sally_Stitts at 6:29 pm (utc) on Jun 15, 2020]

[mack]

The last time I received a notification like that the pages with the issues were highlighted within the adsense control panel. If you login there it may provide you with some pointers.

mack.

[Sally Stitts]

AdSense Control Panel is a big ball of wax. Could you suggest in which sub-category they may be found?
I am assuming any "red flags" would be in one of the 25 sub-categories of "Reports".
Thanks. I've been looking.
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[Sally Stitts]

FOUND IT.
Look under "Policy Center". Excuse me, while I go shoot that honkey.

EDIT. I removed the offensive beast. To save others time,
the subject matter involved smoking. Not tobacco, but perfectly legal in G's headquarter's state.
Here today, gone tomorrow, just another unheralded policy enforcement change.
I'm OK with it, but the "suddenly gone bad" issue was an irritation.

Totally my fault, since I do not read the 50 gigaword gotcha page daily. Or ever.
Common sense had been working pretty well, for me. Just beware.
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[JorgeV]

Hello,

Once in a while I receive such email, most of time when I go to the policy center, it's empty, (I am checking during several days, in case there is a delay, with the email notification).

Once, I effectively saw one page listed, with limited ad serving, because of "image of violence". However, this page was not featuring any images, nor was linking to other pages which could have had such kind of image, the content of the page, not about violence either.

I didn't bother about it, and a couple of days later, the page was removed from the policy center. Meanwhile, I didn't notice any change in the ads being shown.

So I don't know if this is glitches, or, automatic detection, followed by manual review (removing the penalty), or whatever else.

By the way, I still find a good move from Adsense, to apply policy "potential" violation on a per page basis, instead of penalizing a whole site, or account.

[Sally Stitts]

A little more clarification.
The word "tobacco" did appear on the page twice. I removed both occurrences, but the point is moot.
I will never again attempt to place any AdSense ad on THAT page, ever again. Problem gone.

I just received a second violation, for "Shocking content".
This page displays photos of a shingles virus attack on my head. Once again,
I will never again attempt to place any AdSense ad on THAT page, ever again. Problem gone.

Remember the "Stop Words" list from Google?
I'm starting to get worried.
Such words as blood, (prescription) drugs, death, illegal, spam, disease, etc. do occur on my pages.
Just how good is Google AI at discerning context? I hope they don't just go totally stupid,
and start banning everything, helter-skelter. WHOOPS! Was that one, too? (Charles M.)
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