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What constitutes a bad neighborhood?

Khensu

4:31 pm on Mar 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Hi Guys,
My primary site is a free graphics download site with a very medium revenue stream. I do what I like to refer to as "soft arbitrage", pay out pretty well and give my people a quality product and experience. I have a high-end Trademarked product (used to be paid) that I created over a 10 year period and I am the 900 pound gorilla in my niche with plenty of page one SERPS positions everywhere that were hard fought for in the pre Adwords days .

Recently I discovered that TOTALLY ACCIDENTALLY entered a free adult host into one of my adwords campaigns. Well, it has the best click through rate in the entire account an astounding 20%, that's one out of five!
The audience has all the right demographics that I need, income, age group, and obviously PLENTY OF FREE TIME ON THEIR HANDS!

So the question is do I actively acquire more Adwords adult traffic? Does G regard this as a bad neighborhood? It is COMING through their own ad network!

It is about 1% of the traffic mix I was considering upping it to about 10% (with similar sites). And have it be mixed in with all the rest of the heavily varied normal business traffic.

Comments? Knowledge?

wyweb

4:51 pm on Mar 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

"Bad neighborhood," strictly speaking, is a term used to describe a site that's already been penalized by google. I haven't really kept up with any changes that might have been made in regard to this, but at one time your own site could incur a penalty just by linking to a site that was considered "bad neighborhood."

Made it kinda rough to have to police your links on a continual basis so maybe they've eased up on this but as I said, I don't know.

I don't know that your situation even applies to bad neighborhood but I'm pretty rusty on goog policy these days so take that for what it's worth.

Khensu

6:15 pm on Mar 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Maybe not bad neighborhood but not good place to get traffic from.

It is an Alexa 700 site and been on the web since 1998

They use a header & footer frame setup to display the Google ads with free original adult content on the pages that is provided by personal users in their sign-up membership network.

[edited by: Khensu at 6:25 pm (utc) on Mar. 18, 2008]

incrediBILL

10:54 pm on Mar 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Considering AdSense doesn't serve up adult ads, you may want to seek other means to advertise to those visitors when they arrive just to keep them from clicking AdSense to "tip" your site or whatever and run up bogus clicks that get you banned considering they are off topic traffic.

If they get caught, they'll get AdSense banned on that site, I've seen it happen to other adult sites.

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10:56 pm on Mar 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

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FYI, in case you don't believe me, I just have a few pages that are all text but they linked out to artful adult sites and after one Google update those pages all ran PSAs so play at your own risk.

Khensu

11:02 pm on Mar 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Nah I deleted it.

I might be brave but I am not stupid.

Thanks Bill just wanted to see what you guys thought. Seemed a bit odd to me.

Do you think I should report these guys? A million page views per day you would thing G would know about them.

Lame_Wolf

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Considering AdSense doesn't serve up adult ads

They do.

They do serve adult adverts.

[edited by: jatar_k at 7:47 pm (utc) on Mar. 19, 2008]
[edit reason] Removed specifics. [/edit]

Khensu

12:40 am on Mar 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

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The question is: If they serve adult ads why is it frowned upon that I capitalize on them?

I mean those people have money (by demographics of the site), free time and are usually in a good (buying) mood.

marodhum

1:04 am on Mar 20, 2008 (gmt 0)

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The question is: If they serve adult ads why is it frowned upon that I capitalize on them?

Google is like that;)
There are some few threads in google forum.... why google is frowning upon buying/selling Text Links, while they themselves are serving that ad through adsense.

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