As a reminder, category filtering lets you prevent ads from up to 5 specific categories such as religion, politics, and dating from appearing on your pages. Your filters will be applied to ads in English, regardless of how they're targeted. In addition, you'll be able to see the percentage that each category contributes to your earnings, which can help you understand any revenue impact you might notice as a result of filtering.
Based on feedback from our initial beta testers, we've also made a few improvements to the feature:
- Ad impression impact: To give you a better sense of how many ads you'd be filtering, we've now added an extra column to show you the percentage of ad impressions on your pages which fall into each category.
- More accurate percentages: Ad impression and earnings percentages are now calculated based on impressions from the previous 30 days instead of three. This extended time frame should provide a more accurate picture of the types of ads you're receiving and how much revenue they're contributing.
- Category descriptions: We've added details about each category directly within your account to help you understand the types of ads that may fall into each.
23 comments:
Very nice to hear that the category filtering data extending for English language ads. It is very nice to read and We in India to welcome this post.
This is a nice addition, although it would be useful to be able to apply the filters on a domain-by-domain basis since many publishers operate more than one website.
nice, but I know I will never filter a whole category at one time
A great improvement - many thanks.
It looks good, but it's strange to see all the categories in my account sum up to only around 20%-25% of the total impression and earning, so the rest should go to others which is not displayed. Hopefully this others can be expanded further in the future.
Hopefully the amount of blockable categories will increase in the future since a large portion of advertisements aren't even related to my website despite extensive use of the google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) and the Competition Filter. For example, my site refers to the keyword 'Maple' excessively since it is part of a video game name, therefore Maple hardwood flooring is irrelevant.
Blocking is still more limited than I'd like, but this is better than what we had for years. And I can finally see the types of ads my visitors are interested in instead of floundering in the dark. Thanks.
Exactly as GeorgeK said..
It's great, but what we really need is to filter by website not by publisher account.
Why not allow this for
1) All English language sites
2) Sites that get most of their traffic from these countries, even if the publisher is located elsewhere.
Very useful. Thank you. I had been waiting for this. However, two suggestions:
1. Should not be limited to five categories.
2. Should be extended to sites, and not be limited to the account.
very useful , thank you very much
I still hope to apply, (ad filtering categories to 5 categories such as religion, politics), the spirit of the adsenser still high.
Good invention for more helping to adsense publisher thanks
Great feature but it would really need to have the option that you can block more then 5 categories to be useful.
This is great, I can filter out 3% of irrelavent advertisers who are providing 0% revenue giving those who do provide revenue more air time.
So i must to try filtering my adss to get more earning, I think this Adsense tips very important to increase the earnings.
Please consider adding a category covering debt management and refinancing.
I second wasaweb's idea.
I'd also like to see the category information available to report on.
Very cool! Thank you guys for this. I have been wanting a bit more specific ad targeting, since even though the ads are usually targeted well, sometimes, they are targeted to completely irrelevant categories.
This way I can get rid of those irrelevant categories that don't get any earnings :)
Not being able to make this domain-specific makes this improvement nearly worthless to me as a webmaster of 40 domains. It can't be that hard to provide such control.
Also, particularly sad is the lack of a kid-friendly ad filter. I've been requesting it for years, but still no word from you.
A nice step forward
last aug 4, My earnings is disable, and didn't return, this is a frustration .....I waste My time and consume electricity to posts in My blog...
wow great.
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