Adsense Ads Only PSA's Showing

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Adsense Ads Only PSA's Showing

What could be the causes?

newborn

9:58 pm on Aug 4, 2010 (gmt 0)

What could be the causes?
What are the remedies?

I have a website that ranks well and over the last few weeks I have seen 0 earnings because the webpage is showing only Public Service Ads. The site is very on topic. However the inner pages still are showing ads but just not the home page. Im wondering if its a Adsense ban of the exact page, and does adsense do that or do they do it to the entire site -

Next I tried the site in the Adsense preview and its still showing off topic ads and Public Service Ads (PSA's) - What do I do to stop this?

Some help would be much appreciated.

Lame_Wolf

10:57 pm on Aug 4, 2010 (gmt 0)

1: Check your spam tray for any emails from adsense.
2: Check the pages to see is any stop-words are present. [Not all words are obvious]
3: Make sure you are not breaking the TOS.

newborn

11:54 pm on Aug 4, 2010 (gmt 0)

Where can I find the stop words.... is there a listing... out there to use

Lame_Wolf

12:17 am on Aug 5, 2010 (gmt 0)

Where can I find the stop words.... is there a listing... out there to use

Most are common sense. Look at the TOS for subjects that you cannot have adverts on for clues. And look for swear words.

wyweb

6:10 am on Aug 5, 2010 (gmt 0)

Stop words.

Sex related

Gambling related

Hate related

Use common sense here. If it clicks on your moral register, it's probably a stop word.

piatkow

9:20 am on Aug 5, 2010 (gmt 0)

If it clicks on your moral register, it's probably a stop word.

Approach it with the sensibilities of a 14 year old boy. My experience of getting pages flagged as "adult" is that it only requires an embedded character string in a legitimate word (such as Essex) to start triggering things.

newborn

8:52 pm on Aug 6, 2010 (gmt 0)

The weird thing is that from time to time a real ad shows... it is so annoying.

What to do - I do have a few words that are death related but I wonder if section targeting could kill this problem?

netmeg

1:14 am on Aug 7, 2010 (gmt 0)

temporarily remove the death-related words and see if the ads come back.

Jaideemaak

9:05 am on Aug 7, 2010 (gmt 0)

There's a useful list online, but it seems that posting links here is verboten for some reason. Search for "AdSense stop words" or "AdSense poison words" and you should find a list of words from someone called Vaughn. The list he has published is actually a gif image, so that he doesn't fall foul of the Google poison word police.

Of course, anything related to the way AdSense works is always going to be speculation because that's how Google wants it to be, but this list should give you a few clues.

Jaideemaak

9:08 am on Aug 7, 2010 (gmt 0)

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newborn

3:26 pm on Aug 7, 2010 (gmt 0)

I will give it a look and remove a few of the words and see what happens, the technicality of Adsense is mind boggling.

Lame_Wolf

3:52 pm on Aug 7, 2010 (gmt 0)

the technicality of Adsense is mind boggling.

Ah, the Hansel and Gretel syndrome. A Fairy tale of child neglect, child abuse, kidnapping, canabalism, slavery, and theft.

But does Adsense give you adverts about Fairy/Faerie tales or PSA's?