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Filtering Ads

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Margaret Clegg

I just started with Journey/ Grow and installed the script. My concern is that there are certain kinds of ads I'd really prefer to not have on my page. Such as gambling. I have friends who use the Mediavine ads, and they have pages that allow them to filter which kinds of ads they do or don't want on their site. Will that feature be coming to Journey? 

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    • Journey Support Team

    Margaret Clegg Jessie Bernhardt Debra Cummings -
    Sorry for the delay here! We are still in discussion here, but I didn't want to dismiss this question all together and thought I could provide some reassurance.

    What you see on your own site vs what your readers see are very different! As a site owner, you're typically on your site way more often than your readers. Advertisers stop paying a premium for the same reader in the same session after a certain point (typically that point is far beyond the number of pages a reader would encounter in a single session). The longer you're on your own site, you'll start to be served lower CPM ads because advertisers have effectively stoped competing to reach YOU - but they have not stoped competing to reach your readers.For instance, on Margaret's site I'm being served ads for Petsmart (where I frequently shop, and Expedia- as I've been looking to book travel lately).

  • Jessie Bernhardt

    I came to ask the same question!

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  • Debra Cummings

    I've also seen some low-quality ads, the “gross-out” kind with feet and bumpy skin close-ups, which I thought weren't going to be served on Journey. I have a food blog, so an ad with feet talking about toe fungus is very unappealing. 

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  • Gloria Barr
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    The ads I would like to filter out are not the “gross-out” kind, but ads that are not relevant to my site visitors and might actually turn them off.  Hasn't happened yet, since I just started, but somewhere down the line if there are certain ads I don't want to show it would be important for me to be able to block them.

    When I was using Adsense I could block certain urls which was useful.

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