Before competitive ad filter After blocking several MFA sites (hand picked by self review) MFA sites rob you of sites income!
Don't use adblacklist, just go onto your site and refresh the pages and see what ads come up and check them by looking at the URL of the ads and typing it (do not click them to see where it goes! obvious.) Its not too hard to find the mfa ones. and block them.
Did the bad ones disappear at once when you added them to the block list? EDIT: Ok, I understand, just looked at your location and suddenly understand why google pay bad
lolo, no I added the competitive ad filter last night I think it takes a few hours for it too kick in.
I add to the block list every day. Every jerk selling ringtones or advertising a parked page gets blocked, and the earnings usually go up since that ad spot in the link ads goes to a real advertiser.
I had the same problem but my problem when i added the filter clicks dropped from 29(average a day) till 8..... i think there is no dought that i removed the filter
i never really understood blocking ads. don't the highest paying ads go up anyways? and if there aren't any high paying ads then these MFA sites come in since they only bid a few cents per click. so what good does blocking mfa sites do?
I find that blocking sites is not that important after all. It is important to make good advertisers want to display ads on your site - that is when you start getting good money for each click on adsense ads.
what good advertisers want doesn't matter, because they can't target your specific site when they are using contextual ads. your site is just part of a giant pool of sites, the most that they can do is to remove your site from the pool, not single it out for ads. good post dollar, too bad that some people can't figure it out.
you can target specific sites when creating an adwords campaign. this makes your statement not entirely true...
Google is robbing everybody. This month saw a record number of totally legit publishers banned from Adsense with no proof and for no reason. Be careful, Google needs to turn record earnings to keep that stock going up , so don't be a victim.
Hi Bryce, where did you get this information? I wold like to read more about this, please post the source if possible.
How does banning publishers increase their earnings? That doesn't make any sense. Publishers use up the ad inventory making the Adwords users happy, google makes money, and the advertisers pump more money into PPC.
I present to you ladies and gents day 2 with COmpetitive ad filter. I also Added more MFA sites to the list.
Your right that thies site don't pay anything like 2 cents a a click. Most of the site I blocked where junky spyware sites like the fart button etc.. And some of them are clever mfa sites that look real like this fitnessgear101.com at first glance it looks like a real site buts its actually has ads placed cleveraly around the pages. What clever abou this site though is there is still a small doubt in my mind whether it actaully mfa, this is the perfect mfa site. That one that can't be banned for tos violations.
That is a nice site. If it is a MFA site, then they put some effort into it. They are using Yahoo for their ads. I didn't really pay attention to the content, but they were clever in the placement of ads. They would talk about a yoga mat and have a yoga mat affiliate ad placed right next to it. Then below the article they would also have yoga specific ads from yahoo. If you put some effort into driving traffic to that site, you could create a decent income stream.
it was good of you to not give them a live link from this forum. as mfa'ers go, tho, there are far worse sites than that, and as your filter fills up, you will find yourself replacing that url with one of those horrible parked page mfa'ers. if you were getting the fart button ad, it's proably because you have site-targeted ads enabled... that cpm crap is the dregs of adsense, tell adsense to turn it off, and you'll have more room in the filter.