I need advertising for an educational site that caters to a "PG" audience -- about 7 to 13. Can I control the level of advertising with AS? Is there likely to be anything objectionable?
netmeg
8:48 pm on Feb 1, 2010 (gmt 0)
It's been known to happen. I would never put AdSense on a site that's specifically targeted to kids. You just can't control the ads, you don't really want kids clicking on them anyway (typically the advertisers aren't going to want kids clicking on their ads - they don't buy) and it just seems like an all around bad idea.
farmboy
10:47 pm on Feb 1, 2010 (gmt 0)
FWIW, the other day in the thread about a city in Georgia, I did a search for the name of the city without including the state and beside the results was a p*rn ad. I didn't know Google allowed those.
FarmBoy
Lame_Wolf
11:16 pm on Feb 1, 2010 (gmt 0)
Can I control the level of advertising with AS?
Nope. Not even if you use <meta http-equiv="PICS-Label"> to state that is child friendly.
Even innocent words like rabbit and hairy bears can produce adult adverts.
pab1953
1:36 am on Feb 2, 2010 (gmt 0)
Thanks to all. No AdSense.
piatkow
11:26 am on Feb 2, 2010 (gmt 0)
I have seen a site listing folk dance clubs get ads for pole dancing clubs (nothing to do with personalised search!). For any site you have to keep an eye on what ads are being delivered. I would be very wary about using adsense on any site with a "sensitive" audience such as children or churches.
