Google’s Adsense Contextual Search Has Issues – Inappropriate Ads
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5 Jan 2008
I have almost written this post so many times. I was hesitant for several reasons. The first being I didn’t want to insult anyone in the gay or lesbian community. The second is I didn’t want to talk bad about Google Adsense since they pay me.
Here is the rub. For the thousandth time I have gotten an ad for gay or lesbian websites on my website. Philoking.com is a tech blog. I write about computers, operating systems, software, consumer electronics, blogging and the like. It’s just not an appropriate ad that I want displayed on my website.
I go through the motions, block the site and after a few hours the ads go away. The question is, what about my content makes Google think that those are the kinds of ads that I want on my website.
I hope that they take some stock in their algorithm, look at the sites that we block, and try to intelligently block similar sites for me.
I am have been looking into other ad publishers for some time now given the major discrepancy between credited clicks and the logs my servers show for outgoing clicks, but this reason gives me renewed reasons to quickly look for an alternative. Hopefully Microsoft will open it’s ad serving program to less major sites and I can use that.
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5 Responses to Google’s Adsense Contextual Search Has Issues – Inappropriate Ads
Doug
January 7th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I bet it has something to do with something that was found on the page. Maybe they bought some ads for the keyword “boise” that is on your page four times. Maybe it found one of your links and thought it was relevant. You have a section on Lifestyle News, I could see an algorithm taking that the wrong way.
I know the algorithm isn’t perfect. Maybe it is just reading into things a little too much?
Harold Newman
February 14th, 2010 at 1:22 am
i am really very thankful that Google launched the Adsense program. this enables most of us who owns several websites to work at home.
Karen Hayes
March 4th, 2010 at 8:34 am
i love google Adsense, it enables me to earn money on the websites and forums that i have put up several years ago. if you got tons of websites, you can earn a lot from Adsense alone
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March 14th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
i guess we should thank Google for not allowing porn ads
Maisie Marshall
April 26th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Adsense is the best paying contextual advertising out there but there are also some other good paying ad programs like Infolinks and Adbrite.