ARRGH,,, I HATE google

[collegeboyslive]

OK i have to rant, so take a swig of your morning coffee and follow along...

I decided to do some new Google adwords campaigns yesterday for our gay adult content, so i set up the campaign and pointed it to the demo site for webmasters http://demo.collegeboyslive.com

I chose very specific keywords, you know the ones surrounded in " " so the ad wil only show if that exact term is put in. one of the terms i used was "Gay Adult Webmaster". Google came back and said they wont run the ad.. because....

Its a gay adult ad !!

( * Beats head against wall * )

in fact of all the keywords they DIDN'T allow, the only one they did was a much more generic term. " Gay content"

wonder what they are smoking over there ?

Ok Rant over.. ARRRRGHHHHH

[Lee]

Yup thats Google for you, they are definitely getting more and more stringent with the words you can bid on.

Regards,

Lee

[collegeboyslive]

yeah , but what is really crazy is that they let "gay content" through. and NOT "gay adult content" ?

[SluggerJ]

You got kind of "lucky" that the ad is running at all because their policy is to not allow sites that use terms like "boys" "twinks" "girls" etc. because they consider them to be "teen porn concepts." It may still get disapproved within a few days.

As for the keywords, I agree... They use a broken automated filter that blocks certain keywords for being "not adult enough" when running adult ads. And basically it's a retarded system. They rely heavily on this broken algorithm and it makes it all the more difficult to turn a profit anymore with adult ads because you can't target appropriately.

We need more search competition.

[Cruisemaster]

We need more search competition.

Truly! I love Google as a consumer, but don't appreciate their monopoly on a critical element of web advertising. I hope that Yahoo/Google deal is nixed. Better yet, I wish we had enough competition that one of the big houses would turn adult-friendly.

[mona]

Google has a list of words that they don't allow to partake in AdWords campaigns, and adult is one of them. :jerkoff:

Others are viagra, prescription, etc.

[Gayboys4fun]

Hey, adwords, been there got the t-shirt and the grief. It looks like Google or rather Blogger is putting there spin on advertising too. Recently I've had a blog locked by Bloggers robots due to it having the characteristics of a spam blog, whatever that may be?

In my case all I've done is include links in my posts to my affiliate programs, courtesy links to photographers, model agencies and miscellaneous parties. Roughly 30% of my 487 posts will have had links put in place to advertise new film releases, promotions, etc.., all of which were relevant to the individual posts. According to Blogger a large number of links usually all pointing to a single site constitute spam. How may I ask is one supposed to acknowledge photographers work, link models to agencies and link films to sites without contravening this rule? A link on post no: 1 is not going to be seen by someone visiting a year later viewing post: 487. One link per domain, you've got to be joking!

So far it appears to me images and text in posts are fine, but links are a definite NO. Any linking presumably is going to have to be static in the Blog roll and site listing layout. Mmm..., now do I put a link to my main page, shop, vod site, DVDs...? Oh no that's just one link to many.

No wonder there's so many blogs with just images and youtube videos these days, what's the point of text if you can't link to the relevant content.

You know somebody once said to me 'Perseverance Pays', and it's true eventually I did sell him a new VW Van, but to this day I still wonder if it was worth all the grief.