Stopping inappropriate Google Ads?

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    survivingtogether · Member ·

    Hosting a blog on WordPress.com is a fantastic breeze and I don’t mind WordPress making a little money off Google Ads on my blog… however, I’m NOT HAPPY about ads like “Date Sexy Thai Women” appearing under posts, especially because this blog covers rural children’s education.

    Appallingly out of context Google! Sounds like an endorsement of human trafficking. Please don’t let our blogs be compromised like this for a quick profit WordPress!

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    auxclass · Member ·

    The ads should be “appropriate” I have seen a complaint or two about the Sexy Thai before – best to complain to the staff about the filter that Google did not use. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

    You can also buy the no-ad upgrade for something like $ 30- or so.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    If an ad violates Google’s policy (ie appears to be prostitution, etc) you can report them directly to Google. Just click on the “Ads by Google” link on each ad.

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    wellnesszingcom · Member ·

    Remember that when you use google adsense to earn money, don’t make any mistake with ads by google or your account will be banned and all money will wipe out.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    That’s totally irrelevant: the ads at WordPress.com aren’t placed by the bloggers but by WordPress itself, which keeps all the money unless the blogger has been approved for the Ad Control upgrade.

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    ssqm · Member ·

    I don’t want more “cure for fibromyalgia” on my blog. There’s NO CURE for fibromyalgia but there are a lot of docs who think they’re very clever. FAKES.
    Wordpress should NOT include those deceiving ads. I want them out of my blog NOW.

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    timethief · Member ·

    @survivingtogether and ssqm
    Wordpress.COM has been running Google Adsense on our free hosted blogs since 2006. If you want the Google Adsense ads to be removed from your free hosted blog posting to this forum is futile. We are Volunteers and we have no role to play in corporate decision-making. All we can do is exactly what auxclass did above and point you to the contact link for Staff, and the No-Ads upgrade for wordpress.COM blogs. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stopping-inappropriate-google-ads?replies=6#post-547361

    If those alternatives do not suit you then we can point you to wordpress.ORG as if you hire a web host, export your content out of your wordpress.COM free hosted blog and import it into your own self hosted wordpress.ORG install, then you will be in total control of what appears on your site.

    WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

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    luisewagner · Member ·

    I am run my blog with WordPress for 3 years now and haven’t managed to establish an Adsense Code yet. Today I tried again but it won’t let me. I try the HTML-view and implement the code into my page but nothing happens. I am not sure if I have a content site or a domain though. What is the difference? Both are domains. Can anybody help me? Thanks for any hints.

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    timethief · Member ·

    Please read what follows very closely and carefully asyou cannot display any advertising at all on a free hosted wordpress.COM blog unless it has been accepted into the AdControl prgram. The fact that you have domain being domain mapped by wordpress.com is irrelevant. All the same rules still apply.

    In a nutshell free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.COM cannot be used to drive traffic to third-party sites by means of advertising and/or affiliate programs (see next section for more clarity). E-commerce tranactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on wordpress.COM blogs. No retailing or reselling the work created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed.

    Affiliate marketing blogs
    The only exceptions with regard to affiliate links are found here:

    Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

    Advertising
    I am sorry, but advertising is not allowed on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. The only exceptions are for high traffic blogs that qualify for and are accepted into the Ad Control program, and very high traffic blogs that qualify and are accepted into the paid VIP hosting program.
    http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
    http://vip.wordpress.com/

    If you require an ecommerce site, advertising and/or affiliate links on your blog, you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org In that case, please see the information at the link below to learn about the differences between free hosted WordPress.com blogs and WordPress.org software installs for self hosting. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    I also note that you have not provided the URLs for the blogs in question so please be sure you are posting to the correct support forum.

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    timethief · Member ·

    Advertising policies and AdControl program link > http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

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