Hi Dainiel, I'm assuming in your discussion with Google over the Trade Mark issue you also got into the legality of the AdsBlackList concept...so may I ask if Google said it was okay for publishers to use your fine site???
Well I believe that question was meant for me, as I'm founder of ABL. All they (Google) ever asked me was to remove AdSense ads from the site, but I didn't have to change the domain name. I changed it to AdsBlackList so I can continue displaying adsense ads and so I can cause some buzz and extra traffic by creating negative publicity (shocking title: "Google Banned AdSenseBlackList.com"). And when visitor saw the site, he also saw the real reason of domain change. Google never said that they have anything against this kind of service. If they say something in future, I'll be glad to inform ABL members about that. btw, I'm still waiting to get more members so we can have a big launch with increasing competitive filter list petition (from 200 to 500 urls). regards, Emir
I'm sorry, Emir...not sure why I thought the OP was the owner of the site. I have been meaning to get around to using your site - I have it saved in my favorites -...I just have to finish a few tweaks on my site... Best, Mike
On one of my sites that's not in a popular niche, my CTR and earnings have increased after doing this! I was kind of surprised since there wasn't too much ad inventory for the niche, but I guess I don't need those crappy ads after all!
Didn't worked for me because my website is affected by smart pricing less/more the click same earning
I appreciate this original post and the dialog. I run an education website and certainly when parents are desperate for help and click an ad for www.top10schools.com and it's worthless, they will think I referred them. I am going to try the blocking.
yesterday i mage $12.36 /271 clicks and today till now $10.22/88 clicks.. realy my earnings are doubled..
I thought that Adsense always served the most profitable ads on inventory for each respective keywords? If that’s the case how will this help you?
Intelligent post from another forum: Adsense works on predicting what ads they THINK MIGHT be the best payers - not who actually is (or has been) the best payers. If an ad is paying 2c, but on the rest of the network has a high ctr, then it's likely it will replace an ad with a $2 payout that has a very low ctr on the network. Very good thread about MFAs is available here too: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3144068.htm Also, brilliant article here: http://www.johnchow.com/using-the-competitive-ad-filter-to-increase-adsense-earnings/
OK I had limited success with this before but I am giving it another shot as my earnings have gone down recently. I will report back in a few days.
Caution! Though there are so many people suggesting this way to increase your Google Adsense incomes, it's actually not too effective and also very risky. Why? Google has confirmed that High Paying Ads are prioritized. They always show the highest paying ads first. So if your website shows too many low paying ads, there is possibility that there are not many high paying ads for your selected keywords. If this is correct, filtering low paying ads will not help. It will even make your website running out of ads. And if this happens, Google will show PSAs (Public Service Ads) in your website, and you will not get any fees. Most of Google Adsense Ads are Geo Targeted Ads. When a visitor accesses your website, first Google will check where he/ she comes from, and then serve Adsense Ads based on those informations. So if your visitor is US based, most of the Ads will be US based. If your visitor comes from Australia , most of the Ads will be Australia based too. Of course this will affect your fees. A US based visitor who clicks US based Ads will produce higher fee than an Australian visitor who click US based Ads. Now for example, there are many Australian visitors click your US based ads. You check your Google Adsense stats, there is High CTR but totally low income. You then block these ads without knowing the reality that they actually are high paying Ads for US based visitors! The final step is filtering those Low Paying Ads by using the "Competitive Ad Filter List" in your Google Adsense Account (if you don't know how to do it, you can read it here).