Imo they sounded like the weren't totally sure but this lander was 99% approved. Had to do some minor changes and will go over it again on Monday

http://www.clubseventeen.com/soft/

linklist 2.0

Roals, so they said a non suggestive lander without explicit on the page itself is ok, but linking from this lander to a more explicit site or page is no problem?

Ok, be careful of those DVD box covers that contain the word teen as I know in the past they have disapproved ads for that even with 2257 notices.

Thing is, Google's mid to long-term plan is not to "be the best search engine and web portal" - it's far far beyond that. If the average person were privy to how all their properties (both directly owned and indirect affiliations) make money and how they plan to develop them, people would be very surprised. And quite possibly very frightened.

This is just them cleaning up a dirty little corner of the net, in their view. It's a minor chore and much overdue from their perspective. And morality aside I have to think things would be different if our industry didn't have a rep for being so utterly spammy and shady, at least in the online realm.

They did not say that and we just link to the join from it to be safe.

Yes good point might swap them out for others to be more sure.

In the end it will come down to testing what can and can't be done.

Thanks for the legwork Roald. Its appreciate by all Im sure

Np just don't take it for granted, this was a Dutch Google employee. A US one might look at it differently. So again it comes down to testing what they allow and what not.

"We are celebrating a HUGE VICTORY! Please take a minute to take it all in with us.

Keep fighting.

Thank you for your support!

Dawn Hawkins
Executive Director, Morality In Media"


fuckin eunuchs, google gradually will dig it's own hole

Just called in US, the persons interpretation I spoke with was that nude was ok so long as there is not sexually explicit activity. If anyone else calls, would be interested to hear what they tell you.

related content systems will rise in adult biz too. same as they did last year with mainstream. bypassed google

Disturbing, these people seem to think Google will not allow promotion of any adult site, even if the content is locked in the members section!

is this what they mean by : "it seems Google will also no longer link to sites that contain such materials, no matter how benign their advertising." ??

it is confusing. At this point I wouldn't even thrust what their staff said over the phone. They don't have more info than we do. Why suddenly a none nude page would be required, their release says hardcore, masturbation, etc. They never used the word nudity.

We spoke to Google today. They are NOT discontinuing adult Adwords. They are going to roll out additional algos to clean up the advertising further. Nothing to see here.

It is kinda grating to that gaggle of smug little puritans. That organization, Morality In Media, was founded by a bunch of priests - no wonder they hate sex.

But... your claim that "google gradually will dig it's own hole" is a bit silly. They've evolved so far beyond being an adspace-selling search engine, at this point they're playing on a completely different field than that.

Maybe we will get more infos from this thread:

https://www.en.adwords-community.com...toy/m-p/359440

I hope this part: " I agree. Documentation control (revision #, and date) should be in place, on any documentation. I will bring up this point with the Policy team at Google." will help in bringing some details a more importantly, a fix date before when the changes have to be made.

Will Google ban sites that link to hardcore content or only sites that show hardcore content?

i don't know and i don't care anymore, if someone doesn't want your money in their advertising program, why bother? there are so many options out there.

for me it's pretty clear: if you have softcore content, like a non nude facebook page, where you don t even post any hardcore links, just very soft images, then you should be pretty much ok, otherwise you will risk it and even with that softcore images, still will be risky, it will depend of how their mood will be over time.

Dumped them when they told me Emily 18 wasn't old enough to make her own decisions about sex

Could you elaborate a little? This seems contradictory to the message they have sent advertisers and the impression everyone affected has about the upcoming changes.

The email is pretty clear: "Beginning in the coming weeks, we'll no longer accept ads that promote graphic depictions of sexual acts including, but not limited to, hardcore
pornography; graphic sexual acts including sex acts such as masturbation;
genital, anal, and oral sexual activity."

As for Google this is not being handled well at all. They ask us to make changes but clearly they aren't even clear internally what the specific policy is. The assumption I made was, basically, if you have any kind of "sexual activity" you won't be using AdWords anymore.

[QUOTE=InfoGuy;20113870]If it's just limited to sex toys, it's probably ok, but if dvds are also included, then no.

At least some of the industry can carry on with Adwords

maybe its a good thing as I dont thing big G is being honest on their click reports for adword campaigns anyways.

For one campaign we have 1,749 clicks (according to adwords) but...
only 53 clicks registered by NATS...

Wtf is going to happen?

Btw, to those who deal with Bing - should all upvote this, and also individually bring up this issue with their support, to make whitelisting keywords easier.

Suggestion: "New Adult Keywords should be judged by Search Traffic, not Impressions"
http://anonym.to/?http://bingads.use...by-search-traf

It's nearly impossible to whitelist new adult keywords now, because of the particular flawed practice.

Thing is this has been policy for some time - when they start policing it, then you will have something to complain about.

I just did a search for adult cams. All of the adwords slots were as usual.

So what's the status? Looks like you can link to topless landings (so less soft as the soft landing of roald's seventeen) as long as this does not link itself to hardcore pages before the join page? And for cams I assume ok for clothed preview but not the play for free landings (this is live so for example in mfc, chaturbate etc. you can't filter these room out really).

It's crazy how they can dictate a major percentage of the internet. I guess Search.xxx might have some value in the future. Once people can't find what they are searching for they will search somewhere else.

Bump for more info...

Yeah but most of their revenue still comes from serving ads. If you read articles related to their shares you'll see this and also that attitudes are changing slightly (for now) about their positions to go long google.

There is also more and more negative sentiment among people towards google. It will be slow but I think they are losing ground, bit by bit, everyday.

I also know that they are buying up every company they can (it seems like 1 per day) but whether or not they will be able to do anything with them remains to be seen.

find other traffic source

yep but sometimes they are the best suited for the traffic needs.

Bumpppppp

my ad was no photos and all g-rated text except the word "Transexual" in the url, Landing page was just a signup page and that ad got removed.
heres what my Adwords ad says under Keyword:

Keyword: ladyboy
Showing ads right now? No
This keyword is not running because it points to a URL that has been suspended for site policy. Please review our landing page policies and make the appropriate updates to your website to allow your keyword to start triggering ads again. What can I do?


Btw this is a brand new never used domain name with no history. My landing page is nothing but a g rated text-only logo and a form with no sales text. There isnt even an image there. Just a logo, white page, and form. lol

I'm glad to have a adult related but-not-too-hardcore product :) - Feel free to promote us haha.

bump... any further updates.

I remember they used to have a commercial, a blind taste test to see whose results you prefer.

I prefer the bing results above -

Looks like they clarified their policies a bit. States that "Visible genitalia, nipples, or buttocks" are ok so some nudity.


https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6023699

Thank you for the update. nice to see verified info from our douchey overlord google.