Good question.
If you’re running Google Adsense then likely some of you are running into a dead-end.
On this blog I started seeing the Scientology FLASH ads about 3 weeks ago. I despise the philosophy / religion whatever one calls it. I don’t even want any religion to be running ads on my site. None. So, how to remove Scientology ads from your site if you run Adsense?
I checked the Google Adsense Help group. NOBODY at Google will post to tell you how to remove the ads. Why is that? Numerous people have posted questions. No answers from Google. Why?
I found a help document that told me I needed to download a registry entry and run it and that would enable me to right click on my blog where the ads run and see all the ads that are running there. It’s a lie. The large ad for Scientology did not show up on this tool.
WHY Google?
I selected all ads that were mentioned on the tool. I put all those urls into the filter at Adsense that is supposed to allow you to blow sites. I figured Scientologists are hiding behind a different url. Nope. It didn’t block them. Today I was either going to drop Adsense entirely or figure this out.
I used the tool again – no scientology url showed up in the tool. I selected all and blocked all again. To no avail. The I started searching Google for other posts about this. As I was reading one such post I saw a text ad for scientologists and the url was there… it’s a YOUTUBE URL: http://www.youtube.com/churchofscientology
So, while the url doesn’t show on the flash graphic ads on your site at all – not even on the TOOL GOOGLE tells you to use to find urls to block – I may have found the correct url.
I now have blocked youtube.com; google.com; scientology.org; scientology.com;scientology.net, .info and everything else I could think of. That was 30 minutes ago. Does my blog still have the farking ads running by tomorrow? If so, I’ll remove adsense from all 17 of my sites and find alternatives. I’m disgusted with Google’s lack of help on this issue. It’s enough to make me want to spit.
I’ve read that Google has select advertisers that are spending HUGE amounts of cash on Adwords that it wants to let slip by and not be blocked. If that’s true – that’s a really $h!tty way to operate. A publisher should be able to block ANY ad easily and quickly. I just spent 2 hours of my life trying to remove 1 Scientology ad from my site. How brilliant is the Adsense program now?
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Vern, last night a Scientology media person contacted me about placing links to a YouTube playlist on my blog.
There you go… they are quite serious about their ads. I saw more ads recently – WELL done ads… must be a prime way they find new recruits.
It may have worked as I don’t see the flash ad for Scientology anymore. It was a lot of effort for something that should be as easy as unchecking a box!