Fed up with Crappy Adsense on your Search Blog?
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Then i've got a treat for you. Sebastian has put together the Crappy Search Ads Blog that's main function is to provide a Adsense blacklist of all those annoying "submit your site to 3million engines!" type ads we all get on our blogs.
You can add the list to your competitive ad filter on the Adsense panel, and also, he's looking for more contributors - im listed as an editor, but i've already let him down a few times as i can't seem to find much spare moments, so perhaps a few others might pitch in and add their filter lists to the site?
Thanks Sebastian!
Then i've got a treat for you. Sebastian has put together the Crappy Search Ads Blog that's main function is to provide a Adsense blacklist of all those annoying "submit your site to 3million engines!" type ads we all get on our blogs.
You can add the list to your competitive ad filter on the Adsense panel, and also, he's looking for more contributors - im listed as an editor, but i've already let him down a few times as i can't seem to find much spare moments, so perhaps a few others might pitch in and add their filter lists to the site?
Thanks Sebastian!
- Y! MyWeb
better targeting
Two tips I learned from Jenstar use section targeting and put the adsense code next to the main content. You can position it anywhere you want with CSS. Has really helped me with ad relevancy.
The point is 'Relevant but Unwanted'
Propaganda like "submit your site to a zillion FFA pages for a whopping $40 monthly" perfectly targets an article on link building, but the promoted service/product is not really helpful for not so savvy webmasters/site owners. One can't avoid those ads w/o the competitive ad filter.
most SEO AdSense ads are crap
IMHO a better solution is just to avoid AdSense on search related blogs.
Think of the SEO related ads and what few percent of them are useful. It's cool if people target your site (like some people have at TW) but otherwise most the SEO related ads are going to be for crap.
OK with TOS ?
Nice and interesting. Indeed, a lot of ads are relevant (i.e. "Get your own blog" on most blogs, but hey, I guess that most visitors being bloggers, they don't give a sh*t)
Anyway, I guess announcers, and therefore Google, would not be very pleased about this black list. Wouldn't it be risky to use it ?
Not risky with regard to Google
Ozh, I've an email from Google stating that I can publish the black list. I assume that some engineers are more than happy to see those ads blocked, especially members of the anti-spam team.
Yep
Aaron you're right, but I like the useful search related ads, and in other geeky areas, where I provide more content, it's not necessary to filter the ads. In some cases blacklisting the crap can be a reasonable procedure.