Wedding Blog

Lately we’ve been getting some emails about some of the ads that appear on Weddingbee, so I thought I’d share a little bit about how they work.

Other than the small button ads in the left sidebar, all of our ads are automatically generated by Google Adsense.  Because those ads come from Google, we don’t get a chance to review them before they go up on the site (that’s just how Google works).  The ads are often based on the content of posts, so if you click on one of my posts, you’ll often see ads for bees like the one below.

Sometimes an ad will slip through that we don’t want on Weddingbee.  When that happens, we go ahead and ban the ad.  For instance, in the past we’ve banned ads for mail order brides, Ashley Madison, political advocacy, and Prop 8.

We just wanted you guys to know how the ads work. Because they’re automatically generated by Google, we don’t have much control until an ad is already up on the site.  But once they’re up, we definitely can ban a specific ad (or advertiser) if we just know who it is.

So if you ever see an objectionable ad on Weddingbee, please take a screenshot and let us know!