Recently I’ve added an article on one of my blogs. That blog theme is about Ukraine travel, news, dating etc. The content is being indexed pretty well and I have AdSense installed there. The article was about Ukrainian feminine organization protesting against sharp society issues (including prostitution and women trafficking) in an original way: they appear on public topless and undressed.
The traffic I’ve got in two days to that particular page was fantastic and I was thinking that will bring me some considerable income from Google AdSense ads integrated into the page, but… NO.
AdSense shows there its public service ads only and that’s all. As you know they are all free, so even if people click on it, the publisher gets no income. Well, I have nothing against public service ads and am very keen by myself to help victims of something or help to implement solar energy around the world. But that’s not the topic of this post.
The question is – WHY ONLY public service ads on that particular page all the time while there are “normal” commercial context ads on all other pages of the same web-site?
The answer became simple and obvious: the content. So what was “wrong” with the content?
Google says that they serve public service ads in cases when they can’t determine a general theme of the page, in other words they dont’ understand what’s this article about. I have analyzed my content, keyword density and came to conlcusion that it is not much different to other pages, so in this case Google shouldn’t have any problem to recognize the context.
So what’s different? The difference was in using several words in article that (most likely) in combination with words women and girls Google consider suspicious.
Now I’m making an experiment putting all those words here below. Interesting if Google will serve AdSense public service ads on this page as well:) If you see commercial ads, consider me wrong or.. just keep in mind my experience from other blog.
The words are:
- the sex
- sexual tourism
- sex tourism
- ukraine sex
- a brothel
IMPORTANT! I was wrong to some extent. The problem is solved after I removed “targeted” option in my AdSense Cpanel for that particular ad. Now commercial ads are being catered. So, my conclusion is:
Google did cater public AdSense ads because of “targeted” status of the ad unit in that page. Targeted means advertisers chose where to place their ads, and once they read all those “bad words”, they most probably don’t want their businesses to be associated with it, which is pretty natural:)
