4 ms·

Could it be because your Tortola travel guide site is itself dominated by Google Ads? And it links to your other sites which themselves are dominated by Google

Could it be because your Tortola travel guide site is itself dominated by Google Ads? And it links to your other sites which themselves are dominated by Google Ads? For example the font size for ads on the site appears to be greater than the font size of your content (in chrome).

noodle 17y ago
agreed. i know google is going around trying to make adsense spam blogs' lives more miserable. this site isn't quite a spam blog, i don't think, but its borderline.
dabent 17y ago
It could be, but given the relative opacity of AdWords, it's hard to know for sure. If Google just said what the problem was clearly and give him a chance to fix it, he just might.
- scott_s 17y ago
  Except his intent seems to be to put up the minimum amount of content allowed and make money off of ads. For example, when poking around his site, I confused ads with site navigation. His other ads are also not distinguished from the rest of the site's content - seemingly to trick people into clicking them.
  - dabent 17y ago
    Maybe that's what the problem was, but the refusal from Google is very vague. He has no way to verify and correct problems. It also gets more confusing when one can find so many sites that are far worse, consistently getting top spots for apparently no reason.
    - scott_s 17y ago
      The refusal is vague because if they were specific, people would find ways to follow the letter but the spirit of the regulations.
webwright 17y ago
Yeah, it looks like an arbitrage play, which I know Google is constantly cracking down on (buying clicks in adwords and sending them to adsense farms). Quality score is based on lots of things. http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?answer=10215 http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?answer=10... I'd guess you are falling down on: "# The quality of your landing page # Other relevance factors"

noodle 17y ago

agreed. i know google is going around trying to make adsense spam blogs' lives more miserable. this site isn't quite a spam blog, i don't think, but its borderline.

dabent 17y ago

It could be, but given the relative opacity of AdWords, it's hard to know for sure. If Google just said what the problem was clearly and give him a chance to fix it, he just might.

scott_s 17y ago
Except his intent seems to be to put up the minimum amount of content allowed and make money off of ads. For example, when poking around his site, I confused ads with site navigation. His other ads are also not distinguished from the rest of the site's content - seemingly to trick people into clicking them.
- dabent 17y ago
  Maybe that's what the problem was, but the refusal from Google is very vague. He has no way to verify and correct problems. It also gets more confusing when one can find so many sites that are far worse, consistently getting top spots for apparently no reason.
  - scott_s 17y ago
    The refusal is vague because if they were specific, people would find ways to follow the letter but the spirit of the regulations.

webwright 17y ago

Yeah, it looks like an arbitrage play, which I know Google is constantly cracking down on (buying clicks in adwords and sending them to adsense farms). Quality score is based on lots of things. http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?answer=10215 http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?answer=10... I'd guess you are falling down on: "# The quality of your landing page # Other relevance factors"