Google AdSense Stop Words Cause Public Service Ads

Awhile back I helped put together a blog that was geared towards celebrity gossip and scandals. On this blog we used Google AdSense to help pay for the cost of running the blog. Within the first couple of days Google AdSense stopped displaying ads on the home page, but showed them just fine on most of the other pages.

Public service ads and blank spaces showed where the AdSense ads should have been displayed.

Apparently this was because there were several AdSense “stop words” on the home page.

Obviously, Google “red flags” based on pages and not site-wide. At least at first any way.

Like most things Google, they give little insight regarding which words these are. You can read the AdSense content guidelines if you would like, but there isn’t much help in there.

In any case, by just using a bit of common sense you should be able to alleviate most of these words from your pages.

Once we removed any words we thought to be stop words our ads start displaying properly again about 24 hours later. In our case the words were s*ex and n*ipple.

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