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otherwise i would like an answer from ASA on excatly how to get the URL for each and every flash ad that appears on my site
now that the general internet population probably has broadband of some description, the flash ads load very quickly, and i think that publishers will be using more and more of flash type ads
im seeing so many more now, and the preview tool is useless as it only gives a snapshot of maybe 100's that may appear
if it takes some kind of code that allows us adsensers to simply click the ads to get the URL, without being banned, then so be it, but something has to be made available to filter this crap out
while,i am at it, a BIG request is to stop duplicate ADS when my site has a 160x600 (txt image ads) + 336x280 (txt image ads) i dont need the same company hogging both spots, even if they are the higher bidder, this simply looks bad for me, and others i expect, what about 3 placements with ALL the same image ads ...
yes, google pays me... but i also have to consider my visitor experience, and 2/3 identical image / flash ads simply glows with "desperate $$ making" websites
there you go :)
cheers
mikey
Select Text Ads only?
A pain I know but worked for me.
A plague on the Flash Ad entrepreneurs. They do not work on a lot of sites, especially the mis-targetted "girlie" ads wholly irrelevant to site content.
i have tried many combinations of TXT and Img ads, and i found that there a lot of good looking ads that suit my site for the images/flash format, but only a few flash tho, so i cant disable the image ads altogther
its just a dozen or so recurring pesky crap flash ads i cant get rid of
the image ads for me i think, get a lot of relevant clicks, if only i can reduce the amount of unwanted ads, then i would be happy, and unfortunately, the ads that have to go, are the ones i cant put in the filter
i thought it should be a simple request to filter the specific companies that want to display them
cheers
mikey
And as far as the duplicate ads - that tends to be what happens when there are too few ads for the number of ads for a page. If you are seeing constant dupes, remove an ad block for a few days, and then try it again. It may, after all, just be temporary. If it's not, you might be better off replacing the spot with something else.
hiya fellow ozzie :)
Straight from the old Comedy Inc, The Late Shift - 2004?
Ben Oxenbould as "Matt [hello fellow Australian]" and Paul McCarthy as mentally challenged character "Bray" with Jim Russel, the long suffering lawyer neighbour.
Brilliant.
Ever considered going into AdSense/Setup/Manage ads/Edit Ad Settings/Format/Select Text Ads only?
That only works for ad code that doesn't actually specify if images are allowed.
Not so simple. I recently had to ban all image ads and go text only - didn't want to, but until there's an easy way to get rid of some of these doubleclick things, it's the only way.
I've done the same thing. That action appears to have cost me a modest pile of cash, but I'd rather give up the money than have some of these ads on my site.
The sad part is that there were some really spot on target image/flash ads running from companies I'd really like to have on the site.
I'm starting to sell ads directly, something else I really didn't want to bother with. But the number of emails asking about that option has gotten to big to ignore. Hopefully that will generate more money than the Google_image_flash ads.
how about the preview tool be UPDATED to show not just a sample of the 100's of sites that may appear, rather show you exact URL's on that particular page (TXT or Image or Flash )to enable us to filter what ever ads are showing on the page you activate the tool on- that will be perfect ans surely not a big request
mikey
is there any reason why the adsense advisor has not posted a solution to this obvious major issue with the filter
There has to be a solution before one can be posted.
I second that. I keep Flash disabled by default on my browser. It is a nuisance imho.
It is a nuisance imho
And an unwanted waste in bandwidth. I had to upgrade my ISP package because the online newspapers I read use it more and more often. My usage kept going up yet I was doing nothing differently. Disable flash and your browser either crashes or you get stupid Adobe pop-ups to upgrade.
so can i assume that google adsense will not provide a usefull tool to filter specific ads (TXT / FlASH / IMAGE) on an approved adsense website ? opting only to retain a useless "show me 5 from a possible 1,000 ads" that MAY show up ....
that is pretty much crap, sorry
People have been asking for years.
