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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 by Andy Beal

Google Adsense on Marketing Pilgrim Targeting “Suicide Bombers” - EPIC FAIL!

I can’t even begin to explain why Google’s AdSense would decide that this ad would be appropriate for our content and audience.

FAIL!

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12 comments on “Google Adsense on Marketing Pilgrim Targeting “Suicide Bombers” - EPIC FAIL!”

  1. San Nayak Says:

    September 16th, 2008 at 11:03 am

    This is what i was talking about in your previous posts. They really need to get the Adsense in a better shape. I don’t want to click on ads and go to a website having no valuable content rather just a single page website. Google hate to send some organic traffic to those sites but love to send some paid traffic. Why the behavior changes when money comes in?

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  2. Sheila Says:

    September 16th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    epic FAIL

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  3. Al Cartwright Says:

    September 16th, 2008 at 11:24 am

    It’s actually quite an interesting site and creative adwords campaign. It certainly got me clicking through.

    Maybe Google picked up the words “pilgrim” and “radically” on your site?

    I think you over re-acted.

  4. Andy Beal Says:

    September 16th, 2008 at 11:30 am

    @Al - It’s not like I’m angry. :-)

    Besides, with Google’s hundreds of millions invested in AdSense, you’re telling me that it can be thrown off my the words “pilgrim” and “radically?” — when everything else points to marketing? It’s sad, if that is the case.

  5. Todd Mintz Says:

    September 16th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    The quality of the ads on your Pilgrim Picks feeds is also pretty poor…I’m looking at one offering to sell 50 text links for $47.

  6. Gianluigi Cuccureddu Says:

    September 16th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    I have seen many AdSense ads which do not match the content (very obvious mismatches), they definately have work to do.

  7. Eric Says:

    September 16th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    Wow Andy,

    Have you been seeing this a lot or what? That’s pretty ridiculous if you ask me! Please keep us posted if you continue to see these kind of ads popping up on your site.

    Now that’s going to make me wonder what has been up on my sites before I guess it’s time to really start taking a closer look.

    Thanks again,

    Eric

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  8. Jordan McCollum Says:

    September 16th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    I just got an ad here on how to get solar power…

  9. Patrix Says:

    September 16th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    is there any site that would make that site contextual apart from sites we rather not see? Google won’t accept gambling ads but suicide bomber ads are fine? You’re right; FAIL!

  10. Tiffany Says:

    September 16th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    Wow, that’s crazy.

  11. SEO forums Says:

    September 17th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    google need to refine adsense contextual advertising a lot more.

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    September 18th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    haha, I would click that just because it seems interesting though

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