Hello everyone!!! I am new to this forum, but have been a reader for a long time. I always come here to check ad networks reviews and see how they performed for others. So now I am going to make my first post and question and hopefully someone can help me out. I have a site that was banned by Google 5 years ago for graphic and gory images. This is because we are a news site that covers war stories. In the past year we were flagged as a false news site and were put on a global blacklist. So monetizing this site has become almost impossible since most ad networks cannot get demand for our site since we are blacklisted by the major players. We have a lot of traffic. We receive about 800,000 unique visitors and 4,000,000-5,000,000 page views per month. The one type of advertising which does seem to work is native advertising with CPC. I noticed this because we always had one of the top 3 native ad networks on our site and they continue to do well with no worries about the global blacklist. Then recently I was approached by another native ad network which only wanted to place a 300X250 widget on our site in one of the areas we had reserved for a IAB which was not getting any fill due to blacklist issues. I am not going to say the company, because I do not want people to think I am a fake user trying to push that company. Point is they are getting us a $ 2.00 CPM average with 100% fill on all geo's. We have 65% US traffic. So good high paying users. This got me thinking of the possibility of adding another company like this in my other 300X250. I was curious if you guys can recommend a good network for that size with 100% fill all geo's and good CPM's. It's an odd sized widget for native ads which I understand, however one company is obviously doing it for us and doing it well. So I was curious if you guys knew of others that I could contact as this company does not want to have more then 1 location on the page. I need to monetize that other location. Also, are there any native ad networks that monetize 728X90 as well? PS We were also banned by Amazon as well. So that is one native company that we cannot work with either. Please let me know if you can recommend anything for those locations. Also, I am open to other CPM networks as well if they don't have issues with Global Blacklists. I am open to any ideas because I am starting to fear that monetizing this site could be near impossible. Other then native ads it seems anyway. Thanks in advance for your advice.
What is your site? How come you are blacklisted? That usually happens due to fraudulent fiverr type traffic being sent to ads.
Originally we got blocked by google because of images that they did not like. We have worked with tons of partners over the years like Tribal Fusion, SOVRN, Pulspoint, AdMedia, Cox Digital, Index Exchange.... Many more, but just to give you an idea. We did well with them for about 4 years. We never had a complaint about fraudulent traffic ever. We always got paid on time and never had a payment held up for investigation. Then in the last year we started getting notices that we were on a global blacklist with Google, Appnexus and others which meant demand was going to be really hard to get and the fills were going to be extremely low. I can tell you that we have no fraudulent issues because we are still accepted by SOVRN and have even recently tried header bidding with some other big networks. However, they all come back saying the same thing.... Due to your global blacklist, your fill will be very low. If we had any flags for fraudulent traffic, they would never consider working with us. I did some research on global blacklist and found us on a list that is passed around through agencies. It states that we were flagged as a fake news site. Recently facebook and google have been cracking down on fake news sites. The thing is that we are not a fake news site. However, we do post news that is controversial in main stream media. This is because we are unbiased and not going to feed into the BS that mainstream media is trying to push on everyone. So basically it sounds like we are being pushed out because they do not like our content as to them it's not "brand safe". Most companies do not wish to be associated with a controversial news site which I can understand. However, this global blacklist is making it near impossible to monetize the site and keep it going. So they are winning that war for now. We have over 100 writers and multiple editors. We are part of a network with dozens of sites and this one is our biggest site with a lot of traffic which is mostly US. We have been around since 2003 and I just checked Alexa.... We are a top 20,000 site in the US and top 30,000 site world wide. We have never used any methods of paying for traffic. We don't even advertise elsewhere. All of our traffic is organic. We even have almost 100,000 facebook followers as well. So do you have any advice? Thanks