Comments on: Blogging tips #15: Making money from your blog - AdSense: the competitive filter http://www.thetlog.net/2005/09/21/blogging-tips-15-making-money-from-your-blog-adsense-the-competitive-filter/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:16:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: lynx http://www.thetlog.net/2005/09/21/blogging-tips-15-making-money-from-your-blog-adsense-the-competitive-filter/#comment-35151 lynx Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:28:43 +0000 http://www.thetlog.net/?p=66#comment-35151 actually I'm having exactly this problem with my website. I just added adsense to my page but i keep getting ads for churches and religious charities on my page. Apparently, google just scans the page automatically and targets ads that way, so since I write a lot on atheism google sees religious topics and actually directs more religious ads my way! Likewise my articles on post-capitalist economics keep pulling ads for investing advice! I could go through and grab the urls and ban them all manually, but that'd take a lot of my time and energy and is just a pain in the ass anyway. Is there some way to just straight-out ban all ads from specific types of advertisers? the big selling point for adsense is supposed to be its ability to effectively target ads, so I find it ironic that I even have to deal with this crap. very frustrating. actually I’m having exactly this problem with my website. I just added adsense to my page but i keep getting ads for churches and religious charities on my page. Apparently, google just scans the page automatically and targets ads that way, so since I write a lot on atheism google sees religious topics and actually directs more religious ads my way! Likewise my articles on post-capitalist economics keep pulling ads for investing advice!

I could go through and grab the urls and ban them all manually, but that’d take a lot of my time and energy and is just a pain in the ass anyway. Is there some way to just straight-out ban all ads from specific types of advertisers? the big selling point for adsense is supposed to be its ability to effectively target ads, so I find it ironic that I even have to deal with this crap. very frustrating.

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