Ethical Problem With Some Of The AdSense Ads

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   Robert Kernodleposted 15 years ago

   Hi fellow hubbers,
   
   I recently wrote a hub on plastic pollution, and below a tragic picture of a plastic-polluted beach, there are small ads for plastic products.
   
   I find this insensitive to the theme of the hub and parasitic on the cause IN A BAD WAY.
   
   I assume that I have absolutely NO control over this, right?
   
   Robert Kernodle

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      lorlie6posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I'm no expert on the technical aspect of your post, but on one of my hubs I found some of the 'related hubs' to be objectionable.  They were, in fact, contrary to my hub's message.

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         Justine76posted 15 years agoin reply to this

         i get wacky related hubs and ads all the time. Its all words...

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      BookFlameposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I think you can go to your Google adsense and check the button that lets you review ads before being posted and exclude ads you don't want.  You can also do this to block certain categories of ads.  I'm not sure if this will work within hubpages, but I've done it for my blogs elsewhere.

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   EmpressFelicityposted 15 years ago

   AFAIK the only way round your problem would be to disable ads by making your hub "non-commercial" (go into edit mode and deselect the "this hub may be considered commercial" tick box).  Adsense lets you block specific URLs from all your hubs (e.g. I've blocked scientology.org from mine), but doesn't let you filter out particular types of ad.
   
   I'm in a similar situation with one of my hubs and if I'm wrong in what I've said above, then I would love to hear about it!

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   Mrvoodooposted 15 years ago

   I live within 2 minutes walk of our local beach and it becomes more like a rubbish dump with every passing day, not good.
   
   You can block individual ads by URL within your Adsense dashboard, but chances are they'll just be replaced by even more ads for plastic crap, and lower paying ones at that.
   
   The only real option would probably be to remove all ads from that hub (I believe this is possible in the edit options of the hub - set ad level: high, medium, low, none) but of course you won't be making any Adsense money from it. 
   
   But you could always display Amazon products, etc.

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      Justine76posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      mark it as not commercial?

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         Mrvoodooposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         That's the fella.
         
         I've done it on a few of mine that were a little bit too risqué for Adsense.

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            Justine76posted 15 years agoin reply to this

            HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! YOU!? Risque? Nonsense...
            I just quit adsense, as before I only made 20 cents anyway.  I rely on my good looks to get me everything I wnat. 

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               bloodnlatexposted 15 years agoin reply to this

               I looked a little bit ago, and it's only taken me almost a year to clear $10!

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                  aguasilverposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                  Strewth.... I must be doing something right! in my second month I made just under $15 from Adsense... and I know doohickey about keywords and stuff!
                  
                  If you don't like any advert, just tell us on the forums to visit your page and hit the add as many times as possible, that way the ad will cost the advertisers a small fortune, you'll earn some cents, and the advertiser will drop the ad when they see the CTR agaisnt conversion....
                  
                  (Just joking.... that would obviously be unethical....wouldn't it?)

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                     Mark Knowlesposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                     Demonstrating your ignorance once again? All that will do is get that person smart priced, and cost them money in the long run.
                     
                     If you have a problem with any advertiser, you can merely add them to your competitive ad filter and you will not see them any more.
                     
                     https://www.google.com/adsense/filter-online
                     
                     This will not apply to hubpages' portion of the impressions.

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                        aguasilverposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                        Absolutely right Mark, total ignorance about how these things work, glad you can tell me the correct proceedure.
                        
                        Thanks.
                        
                        John

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               Mrvoodooposted 15 years agoin reply to this

               I can see how that would work for you, but I'd soon go hungry if I had to depend upon mine.
               
               p.s. WTF is that cat doing? lol

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                  Justine76posted 15 years agoin reply to this

                  Hiding in the couch. I have a part 2 pic, just waiting to make sure everyone has abosrbed this one first...
                  what are your eyeballs doing?
                  I was joking about my looks you know. I am going hungry... 

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                     Mrvoodooposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                     lol poor kitty, he's gonna get squashed, will look out for part two.
                     
                     Nothing wrong with my eyes, them be the eyes I was born with.

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                        Justine76posted 15 years agoin reply to this

                        nope no squishing. my poor butt!!!will change it now..be here for a minute?
                        Im glad I got hte chance to see yrou real eyes. 

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                           Mrvoodooposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                           lol, thanks, yep here for a mo, apologies to the OP for trashing your thread, but I think your question has pretty much been answered.

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                              Justine76posted 15 years agoin reply to this

                              me too. sorry, I have ADD, at least marine2..whatever his name is says so...
                              and they wont make us a chat...

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                           Mrvoodooposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                           
                           
                           Could be a pain in the butt, he's probably got a whole kitty 'bat-cave' thing going on in there, gym, hot-tub, the works.

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                              Justine76posted 15 years agoin reply to this

                              nope. there is occasionaly food tho. she likes to hide in ther and grab at butts, or dogs as tey approach the couch. It makes me laugh. I am simple...

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                                 Mrvoodooposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                                 

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   rebekahELLEposted 15 years ago

   yes, you can block ads as long as you know the URL.
   
   the search bots don't read the article, as I'm sure you know, they pick up the key words.
   
   did you try adding some new tags that may bring in different ads?
   or your subject headlines?
   
   no more plastic!! I'll be by soon to read your hub. love your writing.

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   relacheposted 15 years ago

   Ad blocking will only be effective during the 60% of the time, when your AdSense codes are associated with your Hubs.  All bets are off when the HubPages codes run.

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   mel22posted 15 years ago

   Had the same problem on a hub about how i thought it was wrong to OUTSOURCE american jobs, but then the ads were for outsourcing and ticked me off... so I added a few words like work etc. to the tag list and they jumped to first in the list. After that it started streaming ads for getting work which made me feel better, but at the same time did not want to delete the outsourcing tag since it was a main topic of my article and needed readers to find it based on that keyword... try adding evironmental cleanup or a few like that to the tags and when it reorders see if you can get one to jump higher in priority to the plastic tag and that might help . i'm pretty sure the hubmetric stat is connected to the highest paying keyword tags and thats why they reorder ,so the tag has to be a moneymaker to reorder higher than plastic. Hope this helps!

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   lmmartinposted 15 years ago

   This is an interesting subject. I wrote a hub about child sex abuse, and the adds that popped up showed almost naked breasts, and a dating service. Talk about insensitive. Another detracting article about Glenn Beck got loaded with anti-Obama ads. So it's certainly obvious no intelligence exists behind the selection.

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   Robert Kernodleposted 15 years ago

   Somehow TRASHING my thread with concealed kitty commments seems appropriate.  I just hope there are no plastic bags involved with the kitty (^__^)
   
   When my first hub appeared, there were ads for adult videos and dating services that had absolutely nothing to do with what I was writing about.  Eventually, this straightened out, however, and the ads seemed to become more aligned with the hub's content.
   
   Now I'm well on my way to becomming a zillionaire through AdSense. [Audience laughs uncontrollabley]
   
   Robert

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