Written on January 4th, 2007 at 06:01 am by Darren Rowse
AdSense Testing Keyword-based Ad Filtering
Brian at Caydel’s SEO Blog has written a post today revealing that Google AdSense is Beta-Testing Keyword-based Ad Filtering that allows publishers to nominate keywords that they don’t want ads about on their sites - a sort of ‘negative’ keyword targeting.
This would help publishers who are getting mis-targeted and irrelevant ads on their sites.
This ‘negative’ keyword targetting has to my knowledge been available to premium publishers for some time now but perhaps this is an indication that it is going to be made available to everyone.
Positive Keyword Targeting
The other type of AdSense keyword targeting that many publishers would like is ‘positive’ targeting where they would be able to submit keywords that their site is about that they would like ads about. Once again this is a feature that I’ve seen AdSense offer to some larger publishers (not just ‘premium’ publishers) who are struggling with ad relevancy however it is not something that I’ve heard they are offering (or planning to offer) other publishers at this point.
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17 Responses to “AdSense Testing Keyword-based Ad Filtering”
Kris Karkoski
January 4th, 2007 7:10 am
This would be great because all to often adsense displays ads for Pens or office supplies even though my blog is about hockey. It would be nice to eliminate them as keywords.
Raven Riley
January 4th, 2007 7:33 am
So now you can target the highest paying keywords?
J.D.
January 4th, 2007 8:33 am
Thank God.
My personal finance site is constantly bombarded by ads for get-rich-quick scams. I hate it. I’m trying to teach people sound money skills, and instead I expose them to ads meant to circumvent this. My Adsense blacklist is full. I’ve tried to contact Google before, but they’ve told me there’s nothing they can do. This is a step in the right direction…
jhay
January 4th, 2007 9:12 am
The ‘negative’ keyword targeting is way better than blocking sites altogether. One question though, isn’t this one of the distinguishing factors that set other monetization sites like AdBrite, TLA etc from AdSense?
Nathan Weinberg
January 4th, 2007 10:32 am
I could see Google offering negative keyword targeting, but I think it’ll be a long time before positive keyword targeting gets offered to more than the bigger, trusted publishers.
http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/01/03/will-google-let-regular-publishers-ban-adsense-keywords/
StrangeProgress
January 4th, 2007 11:34 am
I think while it may improve the bottom line, features like this can also do you a disservice, in particular - the adsense targeting can be a nice clear indicator of what Google thinks your page is about in general. In my opinion you can learn a lot from the adsense bots targeting, and learn to correct your pages yourself - gaining extra search traffic in the process.
Of course if you’ve got a lot of user generated content then thats not very controllable, and you might just want to slap some correctional tags on your adsense units in that case.
Matt
Allen Holman
January 4th, 2007 1:25 pm
This would be great for articles like this - http://www.management-college.net/71/5-reasons-why-you-should-treat-your-employees-like-dogs/ that venture a little too far from the main topic of the blog and give adsense trouble picking the correct ads. I look forward to being able to use this.
Annalisa
January 4th, 2007 3:51 pm
This would be great for my blog! I write about academic parapsychology, and I’m trying to keep it professional. Every day, I have to block ads from telephone psychics and other phonies. It’s making me crazy! If I could block the word ‘psychic’, I would get to shave at least 10 minutes off of my daily routine. I can’t wait until it’s launched.
Nenad
January 4th, 2007 4:00 pm
I am glad to hear this, even if I have yet to set up adsense on my blog.
I don’t think that we will ever see positive targeting from adsense, since it would make it extremely easy for spammers to only use high-paying keywords on their sites….
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Blogaddict
January 4th, 2007 6:45 pm
Ausschlußkeywords für Google Adsense…
Premium-Publisher von Google Adsense haben schon lange die Möglichkeit selbst zu beeinflussen, welche Anzeigen auf ihren Webseiten dargestellt werden. Normalsterbliche können lediglich einige Webseiten angeben, die nicht gelistet werden sol…
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Anjanesh
January 18th, 2007 9:18 pm
Is there any way filter out ads based on a set of keywords for a given adsense-powered site ?
Right now most of my ads are on domains, web hosting and blogging and my site doesnt really revolve around these three.
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