Filtering Travel Sites

[Porkchop]

A few of my sites are travel related. Should I filter out the big ones like orbitz, trip advisor, expedia etc.

[LifeinAsia]

Why? Are you selling travel reservations directly on your site?

Travel is one of the most competitive cateogires and the big guys have deep advertising budgets.

[Porkchop]

Mine is more of an informational site about the specific destinations. I guess I better keep them. I wasn't sure how good the big ones pay.

[Andrew Bassett]

Are you scared of Expedia in the same way that ma'n'pa shops are scared of Wal-Mart? If no, then don't filter.

[Porkchop]

Not scared of anybody. Just trying to make the most money with adsense and looking for advice from people who know more than me. :-)

Thanks for the feedback I'll keep the big guys!

[Jean]

Why not do what others have been doing and experiment for a few days?

[bobothecat]

A few of my sites are travel related. Should I filter out the big ones like orbitz, trip advisor, expedia etc.

If you're not doing any affiliate hotel reservation stuff, then I'd suggest you keep the 'big ones' you mentioned, as well as any official hotel company/property - they have larger marketing budgets, and as a general rule pay better than 'affiliate' sites.