Forum Moderators: martinibuster
I have to stop it as I found I have to spend much more efforts to filter those MFA scrapers after a week of trip run, that is not manageable and actually eCPM dropped over 20%.
I think Google is setting favorite to advertisers without sufficient controls provided and that actually encourages scrapers to abuse the AS contents network. It seems to me that the SmartPricing is not effective enough to stop the growth of scraper websites (who knows what is in Google's mind?) or scrapers would start to lose their money whenever they received more clicks from their Adwords advertisement.
What I see that the scrapers ads are started to make an image - Adsense "cheap". That is also negative to quality websites and the users. Google is looking from the big view, they may earn more or keep their earnings in short-term, but it is at risk to have a real problem that the quality and structure of the AS contents network is actually corrupting if the abuse continues.
When YPN and MS, the competitors are ready, that will be a new and interesting world.
I am going to add some ads to the filter again slowly. Google is not possible to make things perfect, there are ads just totally junks and harmful to my site and users.
i have always eliminated irrelevant trash ads with the filter... it's up to 7 pages long now.
yesterday i had a record day, and at least two record days last month... today the average page ecpm is about the best it's ever been... so i see no reason to stop doing any of the above.
i run niche sites, so it's of the upmost importance that the ads match the site content... why anyone would want to do it any other way with a niche site is beyond me.
even most forum sites are niche-targeted... if your site is about random stuff, maybe it makes sense for random traffic to click on random untargeted ads?
Once added they are listed alphabectically and I cannot always remember why I banned them, CPM or bad ad etc. Would be great if we could categorise so we can better test the banning and undo changes without too much hassle.
I left Advertise on this site on and have still not seen one on any site I own.
Ann
In fact, I just start to remove AS codes from some of my pages and replaced it by affiliate ads and CPM ads which grows as my site traffics grow up (my site traffic is growing up constantly by its own of membership base, it is not actually depends on Search Engine nor traffics from other web site).
AS can no longer catch up the growth with my site. The conclusion is that should be "Advertise on this website" for my site, not for Google.
