Google Removed 350 Million Ads & Rejected 3 Million Publishers

Jan 20, 2014 - 8:19 am 14 — by
Filed Under Google AdSense

google-ad-integrity-logoGoogle announced on Friday their efforts to keep their ad network safe, in-line and trustworthy. They shared some pretty crazy stats on what that means for their ad network.

  • Removed 350 million bad ads in 2013
  • Disabled 270,000 advertisers in 2013
  • Blacklisted more than 200,000 total publisher pages
  • Disapproved 3,000,000 attempts to join AdSense
  • Disabled 250,000 publisher accounts

Google published this infographic to show their efforts in a friendly way:

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