Hey people, I am thinking of removing all websites from my Competitive Ad Filter.. I filled it last week with a list generated off adsense black list and im still only making 0.3$ a click ... Any Advice ?? Thanks !
At times I find that filtering out MFA (Made For AdSense) sites helps me with CTR and earnings, at other times when I remove them from my Competitive Ad Filter, I see a big bump in my earnings for the day. So, it's a judgment call -- I prefer to filter out MFA sites for my site b/c they really provide no value for my users, but I don't want to drive clicks down to nothing either. Try removing them all for a day and see what happens.
What were your reasons for adding the sites in the first place? If you did not have a good reason, then definitely remove them!
Maybe that's the best per click value of your topic or there are lots of advertisers who only bid for $0.3 a click.
It's on your own site in the form of low-paying ads. See what sites are being advertised on YOUR site and filter the ones that have any chance of showing up, not some generic list which may contain sites which have no chance of showing up. It's a bit more work but pays off in the end.
First thing to do is get some monitoring software in place like adlogger. This will tell you what page an ad was clicked on and I believe the URL of the ad (I don't use adlogger but rather some home-twisted scripts that do very similar so I'm assuming adlogger will also report the url of the ad clicked) So, now you know what page and what ad. Set up some channels for your pages, you can use up to 200 so go to town with it Now, keep an eye on your adlogger stats and your channel earnings. If you have only one or two pages on your site it's a lot more difficult to do but if you have several and traffic is more evenly distributed across them, it's easier to keep a handle on it. When you notice a click reported in adlogger, note which page it was and what the ad url was. Then check your channel earnings on that page to see what the increase in earnings was. Note: this will not be instantaneous since adsense reporting is always a bit behind "real-time" When the earnings increase for that channel, bingo! You can say with pretty good certainty that that is how much that particular click was, and since you know the URL, you know how much that advertiser is paying on your site. One piece of data is good but it's better to get a couple click values for a particular advertiser just in case one was a fluke. If it's low-paying (something you have to decide relative to your earnings) you can filter that ad. Also visit the site (NOT by clicking the ad but by typing it in manually, never click your own ads) and see if it appears to be MFA or involved in arbitrage. You can usually tell this by the look of the site...not much content, lots of ads, and often these types of site will be paying low single-digit cents.
Hmmmm... I am looking at 9,000 clicks/day... that might be a little difficult to implement. Though not only do I appreciate the guidance, but I think you've helped many people today.
A little difficult? About the only way would be if you maxed your channels out and then tried to identify the clicks on pages that were less used than others. Still would be a chore, though! I pretty much try to catch them on the more obscure pages. Some of mine are trafficked enough where it's hopeless but others are a little bit easier to get a grip on. Nice click stats!
Somewhere else on this forum, I read about adsblacklist.com and checked it out. Their "top 10 for your site" was out of order (and now the whole site appears to be down), but I took the top 30 for the day and suddenly got a $3 CPM hike! Wow! So for anyone out there reading this, there's no question for me but that the blacklisting works!
my experience, i add competitive ads filter, i'm monitoring several day, if i get little earn, i check manualy (don't click own adsense) and if ads has probably little earn, i add them in to competitive ads filter. maybe it's a gambling.