hi dp members, i was thinking how i can filter low cpc ads from my account. first you can filter all of this made for adsense pages (many of them with an .info domain and almost no content). second and this could be more new for some of you, you can make an adwords account and try to start an campain. you choose for your maximum bid 0.01. of cause in 99.9% your ad won't be shown in the search result. google also tell you how much you have to rise for specific keywords. ok, now you know how much you have to spend on such keywords. but you are interested in the earnings. go now to the google page and type in the preferred keyword. those ads how appear on the right side or better above the serps are your friends, filter the rest! if your income is still low than filter first the pages with a better pageranking. well, if than no relavant ads are shown on your page anymore or your filter reached the maximum of 200 i am sorry for you . you are welcome to share your experiences!
The is a few ways that you can lower the chances of getting the lower keyword clicks. Your way with filtering out the adsense pages is one way that will not do it and make it much worse. At the end Google has powerful software in place to make the highest clicks rank near the top. Now if you move the lower clicks then you will replace that with ads that will have even lower bidded clicks to the ones that you had moved. So removing sites will not work. The way to cut down on the lower clicks is to cut down on the amount of ads you have shown on a page.
hey john, thank for sharing your experiences! well for me this is not true, as google is using smart pricing. i even saw here some mfa ads that don´t pay more than 0.01 cpc! it is up to google what they show on your page. and to my experience when you lower the amount of ads your CTR is going down also. a 0.01 click is better than no click! when google don´t lower your blocklist to 200 we could ban them all. but that is not what google wants. google wants to make the most money of everyone. if you used ever adwords you will agree. every time you rise the amount you want to spend google is trying to get that money - yes in that i have to agree with you, they are very smart. anyway whith that method you change the posibility that more high cpc ads are shown on your page. for me it worked pretty well - income increased 40%! but i think this is something everybody have to figure it out on his own
Yedy, I totally agree with you. i would say 200%. I guess most people do not reliase how ads bids really work. I still don't believe we get the highest CPC ad. Well, it work a little differently for e.g: If you have "Myspace proxy" and "Proxy for myspace" as keywords and if i am bidding 0.30 on first keyword and 0.05 on the second. There is a definate chance that my ad will be shown for 0.05 as 1st position. Let me know if u have other views or i am wrong? Those .info domains are insane. I am sure many pissed with those MFA ads paying 0.01. If u block, they keep coming back with another domain.
as fare as i know bids are "what is your maximum bid" so when nobody else bid on these keywords or no other ad would be shown up your cpc should be only 0.01. somewhere i read the "relevant or quality" of a page is also important. so some pages with a higher pr would pay less for showing there ads in a better position.