Google Responds to Romantica
Hello Tony,
Thank you for your email. I’ve reviewed your account and found that your website, www.comstockfilms.com, contains material we consider to be sexually explicit. To help ensure that all ads reach their target audiences, we’ll only show adult ads alongside search results that contain more than a certain amount of adult sexual material.
For example, your ad may not appear when a user searches for your keyword ‘romantica.’ Search results for this keyword are unlikely to contain sufficient adult content to show your ad. You may consider using this keyword in combination with a more sexually explicit phrase, such as ‘XXX.’
Please note that keywords are evaluated globally to determine if they are sufficiently adult. For this reason, a keyword that may seem adult-orientated in your language or country may still not trigger any adult ads if global search results for that keyword are unlikely to contain sufficient adult content.
We recommend you use specific keywords that are relevant to your targeted audience. Well-targeted keywords can help you reach your intended audience and maintain the relevance of Google search results and advertisements for our users. To edit your keyword list, please follow the steps listed at https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6271&hl=en_US.[emphasis mine]
In addition, Google doesn’t permit ads labeled ‘Non-Family Safe’ or ‘Adult’ to appear to users who have activated their Safe-Search filter. Please make sure your Safe-Search filter isn’t activated, and try searching Google again. To check your Safe-Search filter preference, follow the steps listed at https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=40905&hl=en_US.
Tip: Use the Ads Diagnostic Tool to see whether your ad is appearing on the first page of search results and to identify why a particular ad or group of ads may not be showing. On the Keywords tab of your ad group details page, point your mouse at the magnifying glass icon next to any keyword to display a help bubble with information about your keyword. You can also access the tool at any time via the ‘Tools’ link on the ‘Campaign Management’ tab.
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We look forward to providing you with the most effective advertising available.
Sincerely,
Ram Balasubramania
The Google AdWords Team
Okay, fair enough.
While it’s true that some of the top top returns for ‘romantica’ are concerned with cock-sucking, butt-fucking, ass-eating, and orgies (all in the context of a loving, man/woman, monogamous relationship, you understand,) but if you keep clicking, you’ll find a lot of returns for hotels, lingerie, bridalwear; which are all things that go quite nicely with cock-sucking, butt-fucking, ass-eating, and orgies, but not in and of themselves sexually explicit.
Now the strange part.
As of 7:44AM, Google’s Adwords is showing our ad as active on the search ‘romantica.’
Squeaky wheel gets the grease? Algorithym refinement? Lots of Ellora’s Cave fans inside the High House of Search? I don’t care. Comstock Films is a by hook or by crook operation!
Update 12:53PM
We’re back where we started. No advertising for Comstock Films on the keyword ‘romantica’. The googlebot is fickle!
