

I’m always working with my ad suppliers to increase the quality of the ads and remove any crappy suppliers.

Wondering why Google doesn’t just block any access to that supplier, rather than blocking every site that might have used an ad from the supplier? Me too. If a Google bot comes to your site when an ad is shown from that naughty ad supplier, BAM, you’re a malware supplier too. Unfortunately, if Ad firm B have been hacked, or have stupidly not vetted the ads they’re showing properly then Google might flag them as naughty malware suppliers. Ad firm B gets to display their ad to you. Ad firm B has decided it’s worth $0.0011. Ad firm A has decided your impression is worth $0.001. This is naturally all done by technology and maths, lots and lots of maths, in a split second. They’ll give you high quality ads most of the time, but if they can’t sell your impression they’ll pass it on to ad markets, where 100s of ad suppliers are congregated in a form of bidding technology, where the highest bidder for that impression gets to show their ad in that space. calling up Bethesda’s ad agency and asking if they’d like to purchase inventory on the sites directly), you pass your advertising inventory to ad firms who sell your inventory for you. When you’re not doing direct ad sales (e.g.

So why are we serving an ad from a server flagged as serving malware? Well, that one’s even more complex, but I’ll try and break it down for you as quickly as possible. So naturally, rather than Google blocking your browser from just seeing that ad server, Google has blocked half of Skyrim Nexus, irrespective of whether you are using an ad blocker, anti-virus, anti-malware or any myriad of possible solutions that mitigate and dissipate any threat. This morning on a routine Google bot visit, the bot was served an ad that came from one of those flagged sites an adserver Google has flagged as serving malware. Either way, it flags the sites and servers that are naughty and stores them in a big database. The site could be naughty because it’s deliberately trying to be naughty, or because it’s been hacked by naughty people. One such test is a malware test to see if the site is trying to do anything naughty with your computer. When Google sends its bots throughout the web to maximise their search content the bots also run all sorts of tests. Second of all, it should be “fixed” soon (not that anything is broken). How tittingly annoying.įirst of all, sorry about the mess. I wake up this morning ready to write out my plans for ads on the site and instead find Google have slapped a Malware warning on many of the pages of Skyrim Nexus, due to the ads.
