Adsense filter frustration...Solved!

[paulgl]

Maxed out my blocked urls the other day. Knew this
would happen. You can only block 500.

What does one do when more idiot ads are on your
pages? I thought I was done and just had to bite
the bullet. Actually got a hustlercasinoLA ad! On
a family site!

I had fooled around with the category blocking before
but never took the time to really work it.

But now I have. Clicked on the blocking general categories
to see what I can do. You are allowed 50. So, first order
of business was to zero in on the category of the most
idiotic ads. Bingo! Blocked! Unfortunately, this took up
21. Found the second most peskiest. This blocked another
20 or so. Now I'm to about 41 blocked categories.

I've got 9 precious ones left. I ignore all cats that have
had zero impressions. Why waste em? I dig deeper
on some others. Bingo! I selectively blocked 9 other
categories!

I wiped out all 500 of the previous blocked sites and
started from scratch. Now that filter is growing,
but I feel I will never need to fill it up. Blocked
several, then went back and tweaked
the general cats again. I can live with a little.

So far, so good!

If you are really getting idiotic ads, have a look at blocking
general categories. It seems to work quite well.

The only minor problem I have had is that some individual ads
cannot be easily categorized, and I suspect google has many
ads that are not.

Paul