AdSense and NSFW Content

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AdSense and NSFW Content

jpch

12:30 pm on Apr 9, 2012 (gmt 0)

I was watching a funny video just now that was clearly not "Family Friendly" on a site I'd never visited before and noticed they were running AdSense ads. I checked out a few other pages until I found what I was looking for...another NSFW Video that was labeled as such by the site. On this page the space where the ads should have been was blank (AdSense code was still in page source). The first page was displaying ads because it didn't have any words (use your imagination)that would trigger the ads not being shown.

So, apparently Google has filters in place to detect NSFW or not Family Friendly content and then doesn't display ads. I would think a site like this would eventually get flagged and banned once a human actually looks at the pages that have been flagged...or does Google just look the other way?

Lame_Wolf

12:47 pm on Apr 9, 2012 (gmt 0)

They take notice once someone has reported it. Even quicker if on a site that Google owns (eg, Blogger).

netmeg

2:54 pm on Apr 9, 2012 (gmt 0)

Don't know how it works; if the site was a premium publisher, and large-scale, perhaps if they add NSFW Google automatically doesn't display an ad.

jpch

3:04 pm on Apr 9, 2012 (gmt 0)

I'm 99.99% sure they aren't a Premium Publisher. Anyone can try this out to see how it works...just create a page and place several words or phrases on it that would be considered NSFW. Most likely at some point in next 24 hours, if not right away, Ads won't display. Remove those words, flush cache, republish, and Ads will most likely display again. I often think this is why people complain about ads not appearing on certain pages in their site...they don't realize they've triggered a Google Filter.

incrediBILL

3:02 am on Apr 10, 2012 (gmt 0)

I once reported a pedophile site running AdSense and it almost took an Act of Congress to get them banned from AdSense, so it's hard to say what will and won't get a site whacked.