I have noticed a number of competing businesses showing up in my adsense advertisements. I went into my adsense account and found out how to find the url of the ad without opening the ad. I plan on putting that in my filter. There are quite a few of these competing ads on my site so this is very time consuming. I really do not have time to check all pages on my site for new competing ads and follow the steps that were given to put them in my filter. I need to know if there is an easier way to stop competing ads in the future as well as getting rid of the current competing ads.
There is no other way that I know of other than to use the provided filtering tool. This might be worth sending a note to your account rep.