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I would say the people who made this site are fucked. Google is only showing PSA ads.

What ads?

Google Adsense is showing public service advertisements (freebies[solar power|green stuff]) instead of database related ads in the footer. Be gone with your no-script browsers!

Either it is: intentional -> High five for charity. an accident -> He really missed out on the $2-$6 CPC of the glorious database keywords... especially without having a button to go back. This page has what, 144 pts? That usually rounds off to 10000+ page views from my perspective. 1429 tweets, so maybe toss in an extra 7000 or so. That's at least $51~ he could have raked in based on 17k views times $3 avg a mille. :(

Damn. I should've hired you as my Adsense consultant. I haven't used Adsense in years and I couldn't find the spot to put in the keywords? I was probably doing it wrong. Too busy fixing all my broken databases.

He can't run adsense on his site without having everything revert to PSAs. Google automatically switches a page to PSAs if there are certain "trigger" words in the URL related to sex, violence, profanity, tragic events, etc. The fact that the word "fuck" is in the domain name makes 100% of his pages a target for this filter.

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