Crazy off topic ads

[toddb]

Just saw "google maps" on a completely unrelated search. Are they broadmatching and got crossed to the extreme? Nice that it has happened to Google maybe they will finally tweak the broadmatch a little tighter. The ad above it was for poems and the search has nothing to do with either.

[heyday]

It is obvious that there are some SERIOUS problems with Adwords right now... in our opinion..

Ads showing up on totaly un-related sites. Also looking at some of our own Adsense sites we can see there are issues.

I don't know how many times I've said this in the last two weeks....for the first time in 2 1/2 years we are now losing money with Adwords......

This is bad news....

heyday

[ianama]

Yes. Same here. Irrelevant showing of our ads. Even on sites with foreign county extentions (where we never agreed to advertise), and a lot of domain name parked pages (i.e., junk). We've cut all except for 10% of our ad groups and campaigns. Something seems seriously amiss for us in adwords for a couple of weeks now.

Maybe they (or their partners) are monetizing junk traffic at the expense of advertisers. We don't know, but we cannot explain the drastic reduction in conversions.

Also did see way-to-broad broadmatching for some of our keywords several weeks ago.

[eyeinthesky]

I thought I was the only one. Horrible ROI. Seeing loosely targeted ads competing against my ads thus ramping up CPCs.

Could this be intentional? Can't believe it is as it does not do any good for the user (unless G becomes The Evil One)