Business Google AdWords change in policy regarding adult sites

[ExtremeBank_Adam]

Just got this email from Google AdWords:

Dear AdWords Advertiser,

We're writing to remind you about a change to Google's advertising policies we announced in our Policy Change Log that may affect your AdWords account: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/4271759

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.

When we make this change, Google will disapprove all ads and sites that are identified as being in violation of our revised policy. Our system identified your account as potentially affected by this policy change. We ask that you make any necessary changes to your ads and sites to comply so that your campaigns can continue to run.

Sincerely,
The Google AdWords Team

[bean-aid]

Yeah... just got that... DAMN!!!

[RyuLion]

yeap...........

[The Porn Nerd]

So.....now what?

[Barefootsies]

Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd

So.....now what?

Buy a beer. Cry in it.

[slapass]

Ouch ...

[Cherry7]

We used adwords until they became too expensive, but it is a worrying trend the growth of censorship.

[arock10]

Monopolistic cunts. Google is anti porn so basically pro rape and pro cheating. Pro cheating = anti family

Google basically hates women because it's a bunch of manifesto writing nerds


And no I don't use google adwords

[PSD]

Anyone want to take a guess at what they will consider "hardcore pornography"?

So no graphic sexual acts or activity, so does that just leave sites that show nudity without models touching themselves or another?!

[gnawledge]

I've always had trouble with them. It's a shame!!!

[thegreatestporn]

Will this affect adult toy shops do you think?

[arock10]

Originally Posted by PSD

Anyone want to take a guess at what they will consider "hardcore pornography"?

So no graphic sexual acts or activity, so does that just leave sites that show nudity without models touching themselves or another?!

you'll know when they ban you for it

[PSD]

Originally Posted by thegreatestporn

Will this affect adult toy shops do you think?

Probably based more on the videos and photos on any site vs the type of site, so if you have any product photos or videos of whatever they consider hardcore porn, masturbation, or genital, anal or oral sexual activity, then it probably would but I would think most products on toy shops have relatively safe images.

[xpimp]

also the adult chat sites will be excluded?

[PSD]

Originally Posted by arock10

you'll know when they ban you for it

yeah, just trying to determine what to delete before then so I don't rack up a lot of automated disapprovals as there is a limit to how many disapprovals you can get in an account for some types of disapprovals. It is just such a vague term, oh well.

[SleepWalker]

Originally Posted by ExtremeBank_Adam

Beginning in the coming weeks, ...

When we make this change, Google will disapprove all ads and sites that are identified as

So I guess a good question is how much time we got? On their site they say: "...will be updated in late June 2014 to reflect a new policy on sexually explicit content. Under this policy, sexually explicit content will be prohibited, and guidelines will be clarified regarding promotion of other adult content."

I just hope they will leave advertisers a few weeks to adapt before enforcing their new policy.

It just doesn't make sense. People searching for porn on GG will still get links to hardcore so why not keep monetize on this via adwords?!?! Unless some panda update will later come with a big surprise?

[oppoten]

Originally Posted by SleepWalker

It just doesn't make sense. People searching for porn on GG will still get links to hardcore so why not keep monetize on this via adwords?!?! Unless some panda update will later come with a big surprise?

I think it was significant that they banned porn monetization on Blogspot, but not porn itself.

Was only a matter of time before they rolled that out elsewhere.

[Struggle4Bucks]

Owh well... I just changed my company policy too... It means that if they don't want me to use their service in the future they also didn't want me to use it in the past and i'll simply just retransfer all automatic payments to google adwords from last 6months....

[xpimp]

bing is your friend

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=porn&FORM=HDRSC3

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr&ei...q=porn&tbm=vid

[InfoGuy]

Originally Posted by thegreatestporn

Will this affect adult toy shops do you think?

If it's just limited to sex toys, it's probably ok, but if dvds are also included, then no.

Originally Posted by xpimp

also the adult chat sites will be excluded?

Yes, prohibited.

we'll no longer accept ads that promote graphic depictions ... including sex acts such as masturbation

[deltav]

Originally Posted by xpimp

bing is your friend

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=porn&FORM=HDRSC3

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr&ei...q=porn&tbm=vid

I love how now we're pushing the Microsoft underdog in hopes of unseating the big bad Google, how things do change...

[xpimp]

Originally Posted by deltav

I love how now we're pushing the Microsoft underdog in hopes of unseating the big bad Google, how things do change...

yeah, look also at the images section


old grandpa design google

https://www.google.com/search?q=porn...ih=939& dpr=1

and now BING!

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=porn&FORM=HDRSC2


(microsot+yahoo)+(yahoo+tumblr)= microsoft xoxo porn

[InfoGuy]

Originally Posted by xpimp

yeah, look also at the images section


old grandpa design google

https://www.google.com/search?q=porn&tbm=isch

and now BING!

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=porn

The first link that shows with Bing under Related Topics is "Dog Sex" and it's not doggy style or dogging.

[Captain Kawaii]

Originally Posted by InfoGuy

The first link that shows with Bing under Related Topics is "Dog Sex" and it's not doggy style or dogging.

Some recently fired programmer is having a laugh.

[arock10]

Originally Posted by oppoten

I think it was significant that they banned porn monetization on Blogspot, but not porn itself.

Was only a matter of time before they rolled that out elsewhere.

Yea once again google feeding traffic only to thieves

[xXXtesy10]

Huge porn purge from Google image search. Hopefully videos are next on their list.

[Tent Pitcher]

Originally Posted by xpimp

bing is your friend

If you haven't used Bing for adult ads before, it can be a real pain...they have a whitelist of "adult" keywords that you are allowed to use, which exponentially increases the cost of bidding since there are a lot of people (demand) and a finite number of keywords (supply).

I also wouldn't be surprised if Bing et al follow Google down the morality highway in the near future.

[xpimp]

Originally Posted by InfoGuy

The first link that shows with Bing under Related Topics is "Dog Sex" and it's not doggy style or dogging.

you never know when you might need one and bing just makes sure that big glass billy has all the necessary variety

[xpimp]

[buscaero]

Hello,

Anyone knows if adult dating and cam sites will be included in this Google ban ?

Thanks.

[Relentless]

[KaliC]

Wow that will cost them a couple million a month.

The question is who will do adwords for hardcore sites? I see a market opening.

[Yo Adrian]

Originally Posted by PSD

Anyone want to take a guess at what they will consider "hardcore pornography"?

So no graphic sexual acts or activity, so does that just leave sites that show nudity without models touching themselves or another?!

I just got off the phone with them. Changing your landers to non-nude won't help. Once the domain is associated with adult it's toast. I asked if we could just buy a new domain and run non-nude landers and he couldn't answer me, just told me to be careful. Whatever that means.

[PSD]

Originally Posted by Yo Adrian

I just got off the phone with them. Changing your landers to non-nude won't help. Once the domain is associated with adult it's toast. I asked if we could just buy a new domain and run non-nude landers and he couldn't answer me, just told me to be careful. Whatever that means.

Thanks, even non nude, that is strange, I mean if that is the case, why would they specify "hardcore pornography" in the email instead of just pornography if they are gonna disapprove all adult sites.

And why would the email suggest to update sites if the domains are toast?

[Relentless]

Welcome to buying traffic for sexual self help blogs that link to pg landers that chain to adult sites... And trying to generate a positive ROI

[deltav]

Originally Posted by Yo Adrian

I asked if we could just buy a new domain and run non-nude landers and he couldn't answer me, just told me to be careful. Whatever that means.

"You're a dirty dirty pornographer, and sooner or later we're gonna come after you!"

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by deltav

I love how now we're pushing the Microsoft underdog in hopes of unseating the big bad Google, how things do change...

[Roald]

Originally Posted by Yo Adrian

I just got off the phone with them. Changing your landers to non-nude won't help. Once the domain is associated with adult it's toast. I asked if we could just buy a new domain and run non-nude landers and he couldn't answer me, just told me to be careful. Whatever that means.

Hm had a phone call here today too and they claimed a non nude lander completely non sugestive on the same domain would be ok.

Some testing to do I guess.

[PSD]

Originally Posted by Roald

Hm had a phone call here today too and they claimed a non nude lander completely non sugestive on the same domain would be ok.

Some testing to do I guess.

Thanks for info, did they happen to say whether a nude but not sexually explicit lander was ok?

[ctggls]

Less is more.... They are digging their own hole...yahoo was once number one but lost it... Google just follows the same rule by thinking that "we know what people want to search for"

[Roald]

Originally Posted by PSD

Thanks for info, did they happen to say whether a nude but not sexually explicit lander was ok?

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/

[InfoGuy]

linklist 2.0

[Relentless]

http://pornharms.com/big-win-google-stops-porn-ads/

[Kappi]

Originally Posted by Roald

Hm had a phone call here today too and they claimed a non nude lander completely non sugestive on the same domain would be ok.

Some testing to do I guess.

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?

[PSD]

Originally Posted by Roald

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/

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.

[deltav]

Originally Posted by ctggls

Less is more.... They are digging their own hole...yahoo was once number one but lost it... Google just follows the same rule by thinking that "we know what people want to search for"

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.

[Roald]

Originally Posted by Kappi

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?

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

[Roald]

Originally Posted by PSD

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.

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.

[rastan]

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

[Roald]

Originally Posted by rastan

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.