What's odder is that AdSense is telling me those ads represent 21% of my income!

What's odder is that AdSense is telling me those ads represent 21% of my income!

Sounds like a heavyweighted audience.

Maybe those ads are not as untargeted as we assume.

Are these are image ads?

The ones I blocked were text ads.

The ones I blocked were text ads.

Oh, well that's not good news.

Regular size text ads or the expanded (large) text targeted ads? Now that I think about it, I haven't seen one of those expanded (large) text ads in a long time, are they still around?

Maybe targeted ads vs regular contextual ads is a better question.

(Obviously I haven't seen a lot of these ads for some reason probably just blind luck.)

Then I looked at the filter again and wondered what I would have to unblock. Not easy choices.

That filter needs to let us filter out more (all?) of the listed categories.

Maybe targeted ads vs regular contextual ads is a better question.

Is there an easy way to tell? I have too many pages of targeted ads to sort through to really go through that list.

I was going to ask if these ads could be blocked in the category filter. There is a weight loss category listed.

I don't mind having weight loss ads on my sites, places like Jenny Craig or weight watchers.

But the belly fat ads take up many of my ad blocks with the same ads over and over again, so my CTR plummets. Plus, at least in the past, many were associated with credit card scams. Since the latest round of ads are showing well known sites in the display URLs which are different than the real destination URLs, this indicate these new ads are certainly not on the up and up as well, so I don't want them on my sites.

If google allowed wildcards in the URLs, I would block any site with *track*, *trk* and *info.

Use the Adsense preview tool, check the ad box by the spam ads and then check "Show Selected URL." This will give you the actual URL you may want to block

Quite some time back I went down this very path and I can tell you for nothing the ads just reappeared with another URL as fast as I blocked them.

Can't exactly remember what happened but a lot of other folks were similarly affected so I think AdSense may have finally lowered the boom on them. Obviously they're b-a-c-k...

Quite some time back I went down this very path and I can tell you for nothing the ads just reappeared with another URL as fast as I blocked them.

Can't exactly remember what happened but a lot of other folks were similarly affected so I think AdSense may have finally lowered the boom on them. Obviously they're b-a-c-k...

Last time AdsenseAdvisor talked to the engineers and whatever they did behind the scenes got rid of most of the spam ads.

This time after blocking the spam ads I have not found any new ones reappear, and my CTR has returned to normal for my sites.

Something is missing here.

When a display URL doesn't match the landing URL, that ad should not even be accepted into the system.

There is a loophole in the landing=display ads check. You can change the landing URLs at a keyword level and it gets around it. There are legit companies that use this loophole (off the top of my head I know of a charity whose donation page is hosted 3rd party and they use this loophole to get the visitor directly to the donation page for a better conversion) but I imagine that this loophole will be corrected soon. Hurting many legit companies to stop a few who really should be taken down by current advertising laws about false advertising. It is a shame.

I think it's a bit sleezy on their part to use a valid website as a display url, but when I complained to Google, I got a nice email from them basically telling me I didn't understand the program and everything was fine, and don't bother complaining again.

So since then, I've filled my 500 spaces weeks ago, and again the money is starting to drop.

If you watch long enough, you can spot the mis-matched urls by the wording of the ad. Look for stuff like 'find', '100s', '1000s', 'guide' and so on. Plus it helps to know most of the competition.

Are you sure that these ads aren't coming from a 3rd party ad network?

With legitimate third party network ads, if you copy and paste the destination URL in your browser, you still end up at the display URL's site, even if the address initially goes to an ad network or marketing tracker.

There is a loophole in the landing=display ads check. You can change the landing URLs at a keyword level and it gets around it.

Last night I tried setting up an ad group with different landing urls at the keyword level. (My own site in the display URL, affiliate link at the keyword level.)

The ads themselves were accepted just fine, but when I woke up this morning every keyword with a "wrong domain" landing URL had been disapproved. Even the keywords with a 10/10 quality score!

Disapproval reasons:

* Inaccurate Keyword URL

The campaign got a whopping four impressions before things were turned off.

Something is definitely wrong somewhere if that's not happening for the belly fat ads.

Something is definitely wrong somewhere if that's not happening for the belly fat ads.

I have not had any belly fat ads reappear since I went through and deleted all I could find a few days ago.

I've been checking all of the diet ads lately on my site and at lest one major diet brand does have a different landing URL than display URL. However when you cut and paste the landing URL in a browser address bar it does get forwarded somehow and land at the display URL site. I don't know all of the URLs for the third party adnetworks so it could be one of those.

Jane, I've done the same as you. I also blocked the "weight loss" category. My ads appear to be back on target for the time being.

Actually, I didn't block the entire category, just the scam ads. I don't mind the brand name diet sites ads showing up now and then.

If you're seeing ads that you feel are violating AdWords policies, please feel free to private message me with the ad's destination URL (preferable) or the visible URL.

I don't know about everyone else, but today I couldn't find any belly fat ads with the fake URLs, and out of all the URLs already in my filter list I'm not sure which ones specifically had the fake URL issues last week.

So no sites to report from me ASA for now, but thanks again for the offer to help on this issue, as I'm sure the ads will be back again on my sites before too long.

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I have finally turned off image ads once and for all from every site. I don't have time to monitor every ad. If I see another belly fat ad, teeth whitener ad, or any of this other b.s., I hope the "company" offering the junk gets DoS'd into the internet abyss. I thought Google was above this. I know, I know, it's still early. Give the Plexers another ten years and it'll be gone. Gotta be patient.

:)

p/g

with a 120x600 block (and verdana font), any ad urls with 18 characters have the last part of the url out of view (cut-off)

this means any .com urls end up as .con (missing the last part of the "m")

made me chuckle, then realised i probably shouldn't find it funny!