travel girls ad

Morag

This appeared in the large ad box at the end of a few threads in PI forum.

It looks a lot like an escort site and the reviews of the site on line all say it's very dodgy.

http://www.travelgirls.com

http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.travelgirls.com

Is this a paid placed ad or something which google has thrown into the mix?
Is it really the type of services which boards.ie want to be advertising?

sunflower27

Sharrow wrote: »

This appeared in the large ad box at the end of a few threads in PI forum.

It looks a lot like an escort site and the reviews of the site on line all say it's very dodgy.

http://www.travelgirls.com

http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.travelgirls.com

Is this a paid placed ad or something which google has thrown into the mix?
Is it really the type of services which boards.ie want to be advertising?

Hi Sharrow, thought the same thing myself.

Boards.ie: Nicola

It's definitely not a paid placed ad or anything we'd ever want to be linked with, we've been having problems with a few very dodgy Google ads the last few weeks-I'll add it to the list and it will be blocked tomorrow.

Orion

Thanks for the tip tho Sharrow :pac:

Boards.ie: Neil

This is most definitely not what we want here at all. I'm going to see what's involved in getting me access to the Google ads account so that I can block these when the issue arises (most of you know I'm online most weekends).

As a side note the majority of paid-for client advertising that goes on across the whole distilled group (boards/daft/adverts/the journal) is given a going over by my eyes before hitting our network. So I kind of take dodgy ads getting through quite personally.

justsomebloke

and there was me thinking that this was the first step in us getting the coke and hookers we are always promised

Boards.ie: Nicola

Just to update, Travelgirls has just been blocked

P. Breathnach

justsomebloke wrote: »

and there was me thinking that this was the first step in us getting the coke and hookers we are always promised

Boards.ie: Nicola wrote: »

Just to update, Travelgirls has just been blocked

So it's coke and no hookers, then?

Boards.ie: Neil

P. Breathnach wrote: »

So it's coke and no hookers, then?

Nope Nicola has them locked up away even from us

Skid

I've just seen the offending Travel Girls advert again on the front page, at approx 14.20 today.

Boards.ie: Nicola

Skid wrote: »

I've just seen the offending Travel Girls advert again on the front page, at approx 14.20 today.

This happened with another asian girls site too-I've just let the traffic manager know it's still appearing.

Boards.ie: Neil wrote: »

Nope Nicola has them locked up away even from us

We've been over this, special occasions only :P

TheZohanS

Boards.ie: Nicola wrote: »

Just to update, Travelgirls has just been blocked

Poor traveller girls...they get let hin nowhare boss...:(

Cardinal Richelieu

Sharrow wrote: »

This appeared in the large ad box at the end of a few threads in PI forum.

It looks a lot like an escort site and the reviews of the site on line all say it's very dodgy.

http://www.travelgirls.com

http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.travelgirls.com

Is this a paid placed ad or something which google has thrown into the mix?
Is it really the type of services which boards.ie want to be advertising?

Never used that Jabber site before so tried it out yesterday to see what they say about Boards.ie One pretty terrible review from a poster complaining about the moderation in the Music category.:pac:

Morag

oh wow and that reviewer's name is Kev. O

Malice

Aw, I thought it was going to be our old friend Rosie/Sandvich/CorkStudent again.

Boards.ie: Nicola

Has anyone else seen it again since yesterday? Our traffic manager said they might be using another URL to get around the block so if anyone sees it, please copy the URL and let me know.

FTGFOP

-info sent-

Boards.ie: Nicola

Right, I have been reliably informed they should no longer appear after an hour.

*crosses fingers*

4zn76tysfajdxp

I suppose you wouldn't like to go travelling, Nicola? I do have a caravan in Westport.

Boards.ie: Nicola

Analia Chubby Ventilate wrote: »

I suppose you wouldn't like to go travelling, Nicola? I do have a caravan in Westport.

Oh how could a girl refuse an offer like that? :pac:

jprender

I always thought the google ads that pop up were dependent on your search history in Google. :P

Boards.ie: Nicola

jprender wrote: »

I always thought the google ads that pop up were dependent on your search history in Google. :P

These ones aren't. Well I hope they're not.

I'm starting to think the Travel Girls one is following me around, I've just seen it 4 times in 20 minutes....:(

Boards.ie: Neil

jprender wrote: »

I always thought the google ads that pop up were dependent on your search history in Google. :P

A certain amount of them are, but can be targeted based on the content of the page hence why they are showing up in PI's about escorts and such. But with google ads when we block them the advertisers can get crafty and have multiple click through urls (which is how we block them) to get around sites blocking their ads and that url will eventually redirect to their site.

MugMugs

http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=Bpf7NqGtXT4PnJIWKggLBnsSoCqOpscwD8_Pj5DqTn6ucReCYFxABGAEg2bXcBzgAUIaFwJIEYPUCoAHljt3KA7IBDXd3dy5ib2FyZHMuaWW6AQk3Mjh4OTBfYXPIAQLaAUNodHRwOi8vd3d3LmJvYXJkcy5pZS92YnVsbGV0aW4vc2hvd3RocmVhZC5waHA_dD0yMDU2NDU3MjQxJnBhZ2U9MjYzwAIEqAMByAMV6AO4AegDA-gDvwH1AwAJAMT1AwAAABCIBgGgBgI&num=1&cid=5GjEf7GExC931nZbSkxdkoFt&sig=AOD64_0Q6mo4dpUy39GEnD2UB3vF-QWvcg&client=ca-pub-8997425724682910&adurl=http://www.charmingdate.com/go.php%3F00148&nm=3

Just got this when I was logged out and lurking in Motors....

If you want to ensure they are "kosher" I can check it out for you at boards expense....

Cos I'm sound like that.... :pac:

Sarky

There's a host of suspect "meet teh wimminz online nao!" ads popping up lately. I saw one for CougarLife.org on the Atheism/Agnosticism forum just there, which is odd as Beruthiel doesn't post there too often

Boards.ie: Nicola

Sarky wrote: »

There's a host of suspect "meet teh wimminz online nao!" ads popping up lately. I saw one for CougarLife.org on the Atheism/Agnosticism forum just there, which is odd as Beruthiel doesn't post there too often

If you/anybody spots it again can you please PM me the URL?

MugMugs

PM Sent

Morag

And there's a dodgy American apparels ad, spotted in rotation in the Nocturnal forum.

Descernable nipple which makes it nswf surely.
http://img-cdn.mediaplex.com/0/9002/03587_Lingerie_300x250_2.jpg

Their ads then to be the sort that push limits and not in a good way.

Morag

seems to be the night for dodgy ads.

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/71894779534031987

Analia Chubby Ventilate

Analia Chubby Ventilate wrote: »

I suppose you wouldn't like to go travelling, Nicola? I do have a caravan in Westport.

Is that offer open to anyone? I'd gladly take it!

strobe

Some ad for those creeps that prey on the bereaved and what have you seems to have slipped the screen and is popping up around the place as well, links to here. http://premiumastrology.com/process/landing_pages/tv4/index.php?ga_campaign=(intl)+horoscopes+general+(content)+-+display+ads+only&ga_adgroup=free+horoscope+reading&ga_keyword=www.boards.ie&ga_creative=in_store_2012_300x250&gclid=CICX38zNra8CFYEa4QodwxlNog

Boards.ie: Nicola

strobe wrote: »

Some ad for those creeps that prey on the bereaved and what have you seems to have slipped the screen and is popping up around the place as well, links to here. http://premiumastrology.com/process/landing_pages/tv4/index.php?ga_campaign=(intl)+horoscopes+general+(content)+-+display+ads+only&ga_adgroup=free+horoscope+reading&ga_keyword=www.boards.ie&ga_creative=in_store_2012_300x250&gclid=CICX38zNra8CFYEa4QodwxlNog

Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep an eye out for it as we need the actual ad URL to look into blocking it.

According to our traffic manager, the more ads we block, we then end up with more of the less desirable (but not strictly dodgy) ads coming through so this might be something we revisit soon.