Written on November 22nd, 2006 at 06:11 pm by Darren Rowse
Increase AdSense Earnings with Competitive Ad Filter
Luke Meshios from Webmaster SEO wrote the following reader ‘quick tip’:
Do you ever wonder why it is you get low clicks sometimes? 1 cents – 10 cents?
This is because the Adsense Publishers are offering low amounts. Some times they offer a low amount because they have Adsense on their website too. And they might get 10 cents a click for every 1 cent they pay. These sites are known as “Made For Adsense” Yep, it does suck!. But there is a way around this to increase your earnings.
Go to Adsblacklist, Sign Up, put in your URL and keyword, click generate. You will then get an extensive list of 200 sites to block in your AdSense competitive ad filter.
Now go to your Adsense account, Click on Adsense Setup, Then click on competitive ad filter, copy and paste the websites you were giving from Adsblacklist . Now wait till Adsense blocks those sites.
Sit back and let the earnings roll in.
41 Responses to “Increase AdSense Earnings with Competitive Ad Filter” - Add Yours
bernard
November 22nd, 2006 7:47 pm
Interesting tool, I didn’t know it until now. Did anyone see some results after implementing this? I presume it should work…
John Hood
November 22nd, 2006 10:03 pm
Just signed-up and added blacklist to AdSense. Thanks as always.
Marios Alexandrou
November 23rd, 2006 12:07 am
I’ve seen this suggestion posted in a couple of different spots. What I don’t get is why people think it will work. If low-paying advertisers are showing up on your site doesn’t that mean that they are the highest bidders? And if they are the highest bidders, how can you make more money by excluding them?
bob
November 23rd, 2006 12:23 am
” If low-paying advertisers are showing up on your site doesn’t that mean that they are the highest bidders? And if they are the highest bidders, how can you make more money by excluding them?”
Same question here. I don’t see how this will work.
There is some use of blocking URLs in Adsense, because sometimes you may get not-so relevant ad. So blocking it improves your CTR. But not the CPC
Zen Bliss
November 23rd, 2006 12:23 am
At first look I thought, “Wow, this is a great service!” Marios Alexandrou raises a very good point though – if these ads are showing up on your site, doesn’t that mean they are the highest bidder, and blocking them will effectively decrease your revenue?
If there is an answer or explanation to this question, then indeed, this is a great service.
Hazman
November 23rd, 2006 12:46 am
Tks, for the Tips.
I do got a lot of less than $0.10 per clicks. It’s really gets frustrating after working so hard to get traffic to your sites and end up getting less $0.10 per clicks.
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Christopher Zechendorf
November 23rd, 2006 1:44 am
Cudos to Marios.
This would have been exactly my point. Google always delivers the highest paying ads for your keywords. So if you exclude MFA-sites you’ll earn even less.
Additionally decreasing the amount of bidders for your AdSense real estate cheapens it for everybody, since the remaining advertisers won’t have to outbid the ones you blacklisted.
Ma2T
November 23rd, 2006 2:04 am
Good point Marios, I used a similar service a few months back and didn’t notice much difference………The way adsense works is……it shows the highest paying keywords available to your site….adsense does this job for you already.
Cary
November 23rd, 2006 3:33 am
You can’t really argue with results. I made this change a few weeks ago and have seen about a 40% increase in my AdSense earnings… it’s possible that it’s just a holiday thing, but so far I’m pretty impressed.
To test it out, late last night I removed all the URLs from my filter, and so far today my earnings have been abysmal.
I believe the argument is that AdSense will often show the ad with the highest CTR, not necessarily the highest CPC.
My experiments have certainly suggested that this is true. There is a side benefit in that you are providing a much better experience for your readers by removing ads that are purely MFA, or other types of spamminess… hey, I’ve coined a new phrase!
Douglas E. Welch
November 23rd, 2006 6:24 am
Hmm… I might have a little more faith in this idea if it were open source and not a money-making venture. It seems that the money you save will just instead go towards your subscription to the service.
Blocking competitive ads is one thing, but blocking ads for the express purpose of raising revenues might be seen as gaming the system. I am not saying that people don’t game the system all to hell, but this one might be obvious enough to draw unwanted attention.
It seems to me that Google is going to see a lot of advertisers adding these blocks to their sites and begin to wonder what is going on. I would hate to see Adsense users banned for this behavior, but again, the commercial nature of the venture makes me a little leery.
Douglas
Chris
November 23rd, 2006 6:33 am
I went so far as to register and see what kind of lists it would generate for me, and didn’t see anything there that I’ve ever noticed in my adsense.
Sean Hackbarth
November 23rd, 2006 10:39 am
I’m going to try this out. My click rates are very low so any improvement is welcome. If I end up with lower revenue overall I can always delete my blacklist.
JohnTP
November 23rd, 2006 3:33 pm
Adsblacklist v2 did not work for me. It reduced my earnings down to 50% !
tom sherman
November 23rd, 2006 7:35 pm
What’s the harm in trying it? If it doesn’t work, remove the URLs.
My Hot Image
November 23rd, 2006 8:26 pm
@ the guys talking about MFA might be high paying as they appear on the site
think about it, their main goal is to drive traffic to their site at low cost and generate outgoing traffic through adsense on their pages at higher rate to make some cash in that transaction
if they don’t make money from that, they wouldn’t have existed so believe me they pay less than anyone
didn’t you ask yourself how can you get 0.01$ clicks sometimes ?
even if they are paying well (i’ll assume that) will you give your visitors some garbage content like MFA sites ?
one of the good things about contextual ads is that they add FREE content to your site and even pay you to offer it – isn’t that amazing ?
Lyndon Antcliff
November 23rd, 2006 11:40 pm
I see no hard data being given in evidence of this, no one in the comments has said this works. Can’t find any testimonials.
I am skeptical.
Stefan Juhl
November 24th, 2006 4:22 am
1. Adsense doesn’t show the “highest bidder”… They show the “most” relevant ads and order them by which should give you the highest earnings.
2. Yes, this is “gaming the system” but still legit. The arbitrage sites are gaming the system even more and they’re legit, though for some not liked…
3. This will increase earnings for those which adsense ads persist mainly of MFA/arbitrage ads. But many will not see any real change, and some will decrease their earnings. Test, test, test…
4. It’s not as easy to make it work good as it seems… http://stefanjuhl.com/2006/blocking-mfas-from-adsense-is-not-that-easy/
Lee Gibbons
November 24th, 2006 7:24 am
If you are getting tons of low-paying clicks, the best advice is to lower the amount of ads showing. Its counter intuitive, but very effective. I went from having 3 ad units showings, to just one leaderboard and my earnings are way up. You may lose a few clicks, but your existing clicks will go from $0.03 to $0.50, which is a big jump.
Luke Meshios
November 25th, 2006 12:17 pm
It increased my earnings a bit.
Todd
November 28th, 2006 12:56 pm
Stefan is right “Adsense doesn’t show the “highest bidder”… They show the “most” relevant ads and order them by which should give you the highest earnings.”
I think its worth a try. I’ll watch for a week or two and try to remember to post back here.
John Hewitt
November 29th, 2006 4:55 am
I am not entirely sure whether filtering these advertisers has increased my pay-per-click, since Google’s latest Adwords Algorithm had already increased my pay-per-click before I saw this post. What I can say is that I LOVE getting rid of these low-quality sites and was excited to find somebody had gone to the effort of tracking them down.
I am less worried about the pay-per-click than the experience of the users who click on the ads. Every person who clicks on an ad and finds junk is less likely to click again and more likely to resent my site. I am happy to be rid of these junk dealers no matter what they were paying. I just wish I had more than 200 filter terms alloted because I would like to filter out a lot more of these lousy advertisers.
Nicky
December 10th, 2006 2:29 pm
I did this, added in 200 to the filter and I’m freaking out right now. I went from making around $15-$20 a day to $40-$50 a day. In the 9 days of Dec. so far, I’m past what I usually make in an entire month. I’ve been jumping up and down all week. Is it a fluke? The holiday season? I have no idea but I pray to God it continues because I may actually be able to afford to get a car and pay some bills. Oh yea!
rlmacalintal
January 4th, 2007 9:10 pm
nice tips, i edit my adsense right away!
seo
January 27th, 2007 12:09 pm
I have implemented this, it will be interesting to see what results come up..
Cheers
MrBiggs
February 1st, 2007 1:27 pm
This is a great tip….you never fail to deliver value…Great Stuff Darren
hacker not cracker
March 29th, 2007 4:53 am
I’m starting to become skeptical of this. I just tried it and my earnings have dropped to half of what I usually get. I think the people who are listing their “gains” experience those because of the holiday season. On all my blogs during the holiday season, my earnings go out of the roof. But right now I’m trying this in the spring and it looks like my adsense is doing worse.
andi eko
April 2nd, 2007 7:29 pm
Let see what happen next.. i try this adsBlack List
Thxs for the Info
Jauhari
April 3rd, 2007 5:43 pm
I was try but not yet make good result…
I hope tomorrow will be better ^_*
guy
May 12th, 2007 12:51 am
do we get caught by google for using this trik?
don't know
July 3rd, 2007 2:04 pm
I don’t trust some of what Pro Blogger claims.
It’s not good business to help the competition, which is what we bloggers are.
keel
July 25th, 2007 5:15 am
im not sure yet would this action work,just register and give a try.
Armaan
October 16th, 2007 4:11 am
I have tried, my earning fall. It does not always work i think.
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IT Training
December 11th, 2007 8:05 pm
I tried this before and it didn’t seem to work.
Neo
June 2nd, 2008 11:30 pm
tried the filtering . Still the CPC is too low.
below 2 cents per click.
kishore
September 4th, 2008 8:43 pm
Hello ProBlogger adsblacklist is not working. Please suggest me other source.
Bang Kritikus
December 4th, 2008 4:14 pm
I have been put adsense into my blog, but my CPC is very low, 1 click only 1 cent. Why ?. Please, give me your information.
exinco
February 21st, 2009 9:00 am
i’m looking for Competitive Ad Filter list. where do i get it?
thanks.
Cybernautix Webdesign
March 13th, 2009 12:44 am
nice post. I’m having a few tweaks to implement thanks to this post. I might give it a limited test, don’t want to wind Google up.
wied
March 31st, 2009 11:00 pm
I never know the result, if I too afraid to try it. Let see a few week later, is it working or not.
Trigunner
April 30th, 2009 12:24 am
You’ll never know for yourself unless you try. For those who are afraid to try it, then don’t. For those who are willing to risk and try to improve your earnings then try…
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