Profanity filter and Google Adsense

[AndrewSimm]

I run an college football board so pretty normal for our users to use profanity. I've increased the censored words due to warnings from Google. My question is if I create an add-on to allow users to view censored words would Google know this and still punish me. In other worse does Adsense read what the user does or does it read the page as a unregistered user?

 

[eL_]

Hmmmm... I am interested in this too.

 

[rdn]

does it read the page as a unregistered user?

Most likely this.

 

[Max Taxable]

does it read the page as a unregistered user

It can't "read" it any other way. It can only index what the public sees.

 

[AndrewSimm]

It can't "read" it any other way. It can only index what the public sees.

Well Google Analytics 4 is tracking when users scroll so I wanted to be sure. I just created the add-on, took me about a hour. I will publish after testing on my live site.

 

[Max Taxable]

It doesn't actually track your real visitors scrolling behavior. It's an AI estimate/prediction.

 

[AndrewSimm]

It doesn't actually track your real visitors scrolling behavior. It's an AI estimate/prediction.

When I moved to GA4 and tested tag manager I was able to watch my user_id and it reported my scrolling. I did this under debugging. GA4 tracks events.

Edit: here is an article

GA4 (Google Analytics 4) Scroll Tracking Tutorial - Optimize Smart

Learn to set up scroll tracking in GA4 (Google Analytics 4). Scroll tracking allows you to measure how website users are engaging with your content.

www.optimizesmart.com

 

[Max Taxable]

GA4 tracks events.

90 percent events? Listeners?

We're not even in the ballpark of googlebot indexing any non-public content. Posts. Let's keep the goalposts solid.

 

[benFF]

Don't worry, Googlebot browses as an unregistered guest (unless you provide it with a username and password).

Otherwise it would be reading any private forums too

 

[AndrewSimm]

90 percent events? Listeners?

We're not even in the ballpark of googlebot indexing any non-public content. Posts. Let's keep the goalposts solid.

I am asking a question to validate my assumptions. I used scrolling as an example of what they are tracking and you incorrectly suggested it was AI. If you read the article you will see that you can add in other percentages in tag manager.

 

[Max Taxable]

I am asking a question to validate my assumptions. I used scrolling as an example of what they are tracking and you incorrectly suggested it was AI. If you read the article you will see that you can add in other percentages in tag manager.

I did read it. It doesn't know anything you don't tell it?

Your original question.... We're not even in the ballpark of googlebot indexing any non-public content.

 

[AndrewSimm]

Display ads on login-protected pages - Google AdSense Help

After your account has been activated, you can display Google ads on pages behind a login by creating a crawler login. This will give the AdSense ads crawler access to visit your pages and deli

support.google.com

Here is a good place to start with anyone that has similar questions.

 

[VBX Co]

If you haven’t given the Adsense bot a specific user account to use, then it can only view what guests see.

We setup a specific user account called GoogleAdsBot so that we could give them access to most areas of our sites, but (by using usergroup memberships to impose restrictions) not all.

 

[rdn]

We setup a specific user account called GoogleAdsBot so that we could give them access to most areas of our sites, but (by using usergroup memberships to impose restrictions) not all.

How do you supply the specific login options?
I tried with XF2 and it doesn’t work.

 

[AndrewSimm]

One thing I thought about this morning is if Google could just use basic logic to flag content.

For example, our team played like ** tonight. Our players need to pull their head out of their *.

If Google can access to all the content expect the asterisks then it wouldn't be hard to determine what was said.

 

[eDaddi]

Following, great idea for an add-on.

Thinking more on it, if you're trying to lure in direct advertisers, you may just want to filter out all the **** for all guests. If you've coded that far ... maybe even make the filter an option for registered users. Some words like c**t can trigger workplace firewalls and get a site blocked.

 

[AndrewSimm]

I released an add-on that allows users with permission to turn off the profanity filter. The language is generally your typical a b d f s.

 

[Suzanne O]

Have some rules on your site about the swearword filter.