I'll say!

Just killed off 5 gemstone wholesale ads which have nothing to do with my site, 2 shopping ads (one an auction site) and about 4 MFAs.

Yep targeting is way off.
Google, are you reading this board?

Ann

<edit> Seems my mission in life is killing fleas---dang!

Just a thought Ann, have you tried sending them a screenshot of particularly badly targeted ads? I sent them one a short while ago that listed just utter crap, and although all they said in reply was soothing noises the targeting did improve. However, income didn't:(

But having said that, income going up and down is something we all accept and something I don't really moan about. My problem is when they target utter crap ads instead of real ones. Bearing in mind they DO have proper ads, and the site is currently number 2 in a google search for my main keywords I think poor targeting is bad practice and I don't mind telling them so! I recently removed all ads from my site for about a month for this very reason. Since restoring the ads slowly, targeting has improved until the last week or so.

Come on Google - what did you to to wreck the system this time? Go on, 'fess up!

I'm wondering why some have a problem with this and others don't. Am I the only one here actually getting targeted ads from advertisers selling something related to the page? Rarely, but occasionally, I see a "flea". I don't bother filtering because when they do appear they don't stay around long enough for me to worry about them. I just checked about 50 ads using the preview tool and I'm mainly seeing internal pages of the sites' listed with products, prices, and a shopping cart. A lot look like mom and pop websites and the site design could be better but they are selling a related product.

I'm wondering why some have a problem with this and others don't.

Lots of reasons.

The more ads you show on any page, the more likely you'll get the fleas showing up.

The more legit ads that are "topical" the less likely you get flea'd.

Perhaps the most important is that the lower the amount you usually receive for a click on the page, the more likely you'll see fleas, since flea bids are at the bottom end.

And obviously flea MFA's target some sectors and topics and keywords more than others.

Sorry Rbacal,

I don't fill up my pages with ads so that can't be the reason.

Mostly the issue I have about the ads is what Google is letting go through as legitimate. Ads that are perfectly targeted to my keywords, plus they have a nice read promising them more info or widgets or whatever BUT when clicked on does not have a single reference to my page subject---only in the ad. And THAT is getting worse.

Ann

Sorry Rbacal,

I don't fill up my pages with ads so that can't be the reason.

Sorry back at you. I said "lots of reasons". You mentioned ONE. There are others I didn't mention.

Simple-mindedness (focusing on only one factor) won't get you very far.

And your sarcasm is not very well appreciated....or helpful to the situation.

Ann

Guys Im a newbie to Adsense and I think I am being plagued by these sites but I will try, the thing is I have 1 adsense account for my three websites 1 site - Recipes, 2nd site travel and the 3rd Real estate if I fix the ad filter to block the ads with these words will it lead to blank spaces Ive got a lot of content as I said in my firs thread Bretts thing:
100 Pages on all three (first one has over 250 pages of solid content)

Help me out tired of the bad ads 0.01 1 click and even saw three clicks and 0.00 revenue, can you believe it.

Any way you advice on this matter.

I would say block them, there are more ads than you think available.
If you start to get PSAs then refine your writing to make the target keywords more noticable.

Ann

Ann just block them, are you sure but I tried the list I found on the first page of the thread.

.info
.biz
about
etc....

However what happens is that google gives me a error message. Do I actually have to go these sites check if they are 1 page and then change them. I found a few
click4free.co.uk
dailywealth.com
Both one page ads so I put those in the filter, they said it takes a few hours to block, but yesterday I had 3 clicks and .20 and today 2 clicks and .70.

Help on the Filters

newborn-

What you saw on page one is a form of filtering that would give the publishers more control than we currently have. Unfortunately, that's not how it currently works!

You must enter the offending URLs (as they are identified with the Preview Tool) into the filter in the 'nnnnn.nnn' format. Anything before or after is unimportant. If the URL you wanted to block was http://www.example.com/stuff/stuff.html, you would enter 'example.com' into the filter.

If the ads you are seeing in the Preview Tool are obviously offensive or plain bad targeting you can simply enter them without checking, however, in order to prevent blocking a real advertiser you should check the site (again, with the Preview Tool) by visiting it.

A good place to start might be with these:

ebay.at
ebay.be
ebay.ca
ebay.ch
ebay.co.uk
ebay.com
ebay.com.au
ebay.com.cn
ebay.de
ebay.es
ebay.fr
ebay.it
ebay.nl
tw.ebay.com
yahoo.com

Be aware, however, that not every ad you see in the Preview Tool will necessarily be shown... so try to use the tool to track down only those ads you've seen or your filter may fill up pretty quickly.

Also, if you've got ads that are earning you $0.70 with just two clicks, I can't imagine that you'd want to block them... unless, I guess, they were offensive and/or misleading.

Chapman