hi Can I find the list of websites which pay low for Adsense and filter them out? If yes, how? I'm certainly not in the mood to go through every web page in my website and check every website that adsense displays. thanks.
I doubt that there is a "list". There are millions(?) of advertisers and only a few advertising on your site. Adsense automatically displays the higher paying ads. If you get rid of one low paying advertiser it will just get replaced with another low paying advertiser. It would be better to reduce the number of ad units displaying on your page - that way you get the higher paying ads only. With fewer ads you may get fewer total clicks but may or may not get a higher eCPM. You would have to experiment on your site to find the best mix. More clicks on lower paying ads may (or not) be better than fewer clicks on higher paying ads.
I'm very new to this, but I read somewhere on this forum that turning off the "advertise on this site" option helps keep lower paying ads off the site and the day after I did that I had the highest eCPM so far. We'll have to see how that plays out but I also run a much larger traffic site that frequently gets targeted by click farms and crappy advertisers looking to steal our business - so I tried turning it off on there as well. This option is under the My Account tab... see the Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up option.
Yes, you can't find exactly and also you are limited to block 200 URLs only, better optimize your site very well and if you get smartpriced then you can expect only $0.01 clicks..
I don't think so, even if you turn off, advertisers can still target your site and that facility is available on adwords system..
I just wrote post that will answer your question: http://www.templateslord.com/2007/04/26/increase-your-adsense-earnings-in-1-minute/
Yes, I used to block the low-paying sites but I still get 0.01-0.02 clicks. I followed all the advices here but no help . So, I am thinking about changing host.
That's discouraging - I spend a lot of time blocking advertisers on the 200 list and I really hoped turning off that option would stop them from targeting us. Again I'm new to some of this - so where exactly do they go to target a site if that site has that option turned off?
This option is under the My Account tab... see the Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up option... From what I'm reading here there seems to be no exact science to preventing low paying ads. It may have to do with hitting the right combination of layout, content and adsense settings...
This is by no means true in all cases. In fact, the opposite probably is more true. I have done many experiments with this and the results prove that, at least on my site, that filtering these low paying MFAA sites improves your earnings. Statistically proved at significant levels, not just "yeah looks like I'm making more"
What kind of site do you run? What kind of keywords do you get, etc? Also what type of ads did you used to get before you blocked them? I just started blocking certain sites because I suspect that all the ringtones sites I get don't pay well.
My problem was that I got well-crafted MFAA ads. The CTR was pretty good, in fact my CTR went down when I started filtering, but the CPC went up dramatically. To the untrained eye, the ads I was getting looked very legit, the problem is when I went and visited them, they were obviously copied content designed solely with the intent of getting visitors to click THEIR ads (thus MFAA) They were mostly low single-digit values...the content was nothing that my visitors would really be interested in but the ad looked like it was very applicable. When placing ads, Google also looks at CTR (across all sites) from what I understand, thus you can get really low paying ads pushing out the worthwhile ones.