Coming soon: Filter more categories

A few months ago, we launched category filtering in a number of English-speaking countries to help you control the ads that appear on your pages. To provide you with more ad filtering options, you'll soon be able to filter 3 more categories from your pages, for a total of up to 8 categories. You should notice this change within the next few weeks.

To get started with category filtering, sign in to AdSense and visit the Ad Review Center, located under the AdSense Setup tab. You can choose from the listed categories, which include religion, politics, and dating, and your selections will be applied to ads in English no matter how they're targeted. Please keep in mind that filtering ad categories may affect your AdSense revenue -- we recommend first reviewing the percentages displayed in your account to understand the amount of revenue you may be blocking.

We're continuing to work on additional filtering capabilities, and we appreciate all the feedback you've provided so far. Feel free to leave us a comment, and visit our Help Center to learn more about category filtering. 

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 12:39:00 PM

7 comments:

CreativeBusyHands-Scrapbook Freebies Search said...

I loved the Filtering capabilities. My site is "family oriented". Thus, being able to filter ads was a blessing. Thanks again.

Vikram said...
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Vikram said...

This is a great feature for niche sites. But, for the site like the one I run www.aumtrails.com, which spans across varied topics, I prefer to have all kinds of ads appearing

Keith said...

Liking it, but just can't see data or apply the setting on a per site basis :(

Ellithy said...

I know it is unrelevant comment but please read Google employees :

I have a suggestion that the Javascript located at :
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js

is loaded once in a page for all add units
most websites publish at least 3 ad units and each time the ad loaded it loads this Js
so it this will be an option- for advanced users or so - this will be great as
1- increase loading time of pages serving the ads
2- decrease load on Google servers hosting this JS.

any thoughts?

Oscar Karlsten said...

Yay! Congrats.

Iceref said...

This is good for keeping the ads relevant on the pages.