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Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook

By : Kristina Cutura
Book Image

Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook

By: Kristina Cutura

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Excluding categories of sites and potentially sensitive topics


If you are showing ads on the Display network, you can exclude entire categories of websites and pages, which discuss potentially sensitive topics from showing your ads. Your display traffic will be more efficiently targeted and you'll prevent your ads from appearing on questionable pages.

Getting ready

The category exclusions that are most pressing to exclude are:

  • Crime, police & emergency

  • Death & tragedy

  • Military & International Conflict

  • Juvenile, gross & bizarre content

  • Profanity & rough language

  • Sexually suggestive content

You may also want to consider excluding the following:

  • Error pages

  • Parked domains

Review ad performance on Error pages and Parked domains before you decide to exclude them.

How to do it...

To add negative categories, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on the Campaigns tab.

  2. Go into a campaign targeting display.

  3. Navigate to the Display Network tab.

  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and...