AdSense Keyword Filter

I would think this has been covered before but I don't see it here.

I want to block keywords, not URLs.
I have a vegan oriented site and I mention beef, or cows, and organic, and the AdSense ads that show up are for organic buffalo meat, or freeze dried meat, which I don't want to support. I do like the eating raw, or organic vegetable ads.

I want to block ads that show up because of certain keywords, like beef, or chicken, etc.

This waiting around for the URL filter to kick in, then finding another ad I don't want and blocking that is kind of rediculous. Then some other ad with another URL will just show up.

Has anyone found a way to do this?
Can you put a keyword in the URL filter and have that work?
... nope I just tried, it says you need a top level domain with a .com or .net, or the like, at the end.

Any suggestions?

- Sean

 

they don't support this right now.

you could email them and let them know you'd appreciate if it's added as a feature in the future though.. never know what could happen.

 

The side issue here is Googles ability to measure relevance from semantic analysis of the site. Many people are convinced that you need backlinks from relevant pages, but in your case here is a page that is virtually saying "meat will kill you" and Google thinks it's themeatically relevant to selling meat.

So much for the ability to do topical or thematic analyis.

 

Exactly.
I understand how Google might think I want to advertise organic buffalo because I mention organic foods, but this not being able to block keywords seems like a big issue.

What if you site was anti-blue widgets?
Would AdSense want to show ads for some "Awesome new Blue-Widget."

Either way, I will write to AdSense, when I get the time. Couple days or so.

Thanks for the insight.
I hope they add this feature later down the line, if not sooner.

 

Option 1 - Remove AdSense from the page(s)

Option 2 - Do some "reverse SEO" on the meat/offending keyword(s). Replace the them with "muscle" or something.

 

A little trick I've found is to link to pages that cover the topics that you want your adsense to cover. Link to those pages pretty close in the source code to where the adsense is. On my sites this works well.

 

good idea vord!