http://blogging.la/2009/03/30/putting-the-ad-in-bad-next-in-an-occasional-series/ Lizard people dude. Seriously. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogging.la/2009/03/30/putting-the-ad-in-bad-next-in-an-occasional-series/comment-page-1/#comment-38334 gabriele360 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:16:58 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/?p=24168#comment-38334 I think the ads are computer generated, no human oversight. I'm a member of a yahoo group, NELAlist and when various people were discussing the curb painters (who might or might not advise people in advance that they would paint the address number on the curb, and what the charge was, there were comments about what a scam it was, and where did these people come from? I usually tune out the surrounding ads, but this time I noticed there were several for books or instructions on how to make up to $400 per day painting curbs! I mentioned it to someone with a website and was told the filtering for ad generation was not specific about negatives. I don't know what it would take to make the program negative keyword sensitive but I think the ad companies would probably be more concerned with reducing the number of possible placements than the cost of the change...or the possible emotional fallout from misplaced ads. I think the ads are computer generated, no human oversight. I’m a member of a yahoo group, NELAlist and when various people were discussing the curb painters (who might or might not advise people in advance that they would paint the address number on the curb, and what the charge was, there were comments about what a scam it was, and where did these people come from?
I usually tune out the surrounding ads, but this time I noticed there were several for books or instructions on how to make up to $400 per day painting curbs! I mentioned it to someone with a website and was told the filtering for ad generation was not specific about negatives.
I don’t know what it would take to make the program negative keyword sensitive but I think the ad companies would probably be more concerned with reducing the number of possible placements than the cost of the change…or the possible emotional fallout from misplaced ads.

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