Ad filtering

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by Jafar Calley, Oct 22, 2005.

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    I've been beavering away feverishly on the ad filter page at Google to try and filter out offensive ads from my new site. So far I have 4 pages of urls I want to avoid, but every time I add a bunch to the filter, another load poke their ugly faces into my site offending my viewers.
    Apart from the competitive ad filter on Google's site, do any of you have other methods of filtering out unwanted ads from your sites? How many pages of filtered ads do you guys have?
    I emailed google about my problem but so far all I have are the usual canned responses. I'm waiting for a thinking human to respond. ;)
    I also asked if they could send a list of url's that their crawler has suggested for my page so I can add a whole bunch to the filter at once so all I need to do is update the filter once in a while rather than spending all day on it. I'll let you guys know how far I get with that.
    sigh...
     
    Jafar Calley, Oct 22, 2005 IP
  2. kawebspy

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    that's one of the problem if you want to filter ads to be appeared on your site.
     
    kawebspy, Oct 22, 2005 IP
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    Can't you filter out keywords on google? try using that.
     
    Avatar, Oct 24, 2005 IP
  4. Jafar Calley

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    According to Google, you can't filter by keyword or Category which is a shame as you can understand why ads on devil worship, kabbalah cult and witchcraft would be offensive to an Islamic Spirituality site.
     
    Jafar Calley, Oct 24, 2005 IP
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    I agree, ask them to introduce this.
     
    Avatar, Oct 28, 2005 IP
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    If the competitive ad filters aren't working, the best trick is to try to retarget your text slightly. Try and figure out what's causing those ads to appear. It may be a single keyword or keyphrase that's triggering them. Either rewrite the text to remove that word/phrase or else block it from the AdSense crawler using section targeting.

    To do this you'll have to keep testing your page to see if the bad ads disappear. The easiest way to get the Mediabot to recrawl your page is to append a query parameter to it. In other words, if your page is:

    http://www.foosite.com/blart.html

    then make your changes to the page and then access it like so:

    http://www.foosite.com/blart.html?a=1

    Wait a few minutes, the crawler will come (you can monitor your access logs to see, it's usually much quicker than that) and then refresh the page. If the ads are still off-target, make more changes and just bump up the number on the URL:

    http://www.foosite.com/blart.html?a=2

    Keep doing this cycle until you're satisfied with the results. Then go back and access the site normally:

    http://www.foosite.com/blart.html

    and you'll still see the old, off-target ads. You'll have to wait until the crawler revisits the page of its own volition, so your ads will remain off-target until it does. But it should do that within a few days, and from then on the ads should be on-target.

    Well, that's what I do, anyhow. I'll send you all a bill in the mail :)
     
    Eric Giguere, Oct 28, 2005 IP