Did you block the price comparison engines?

And if so, how is your revenue?

[ByronM]

I'm thinkking of blocking the infamous pricetool, bizrate and other price searching engines. Anyone else do this and see any positive or negative side effects?

[ByronM]

I'm giving it a shot.. i feel that blocking these suckers listed below will offer a higher variance of ads and thus possibly increase ctr.. sure they pay a few more pennies then the other, but i'm thinking they're only getting slammed on my site because they buy a billion keywords and have higher spending overall but don't offer the webmasters the hihgest revenue. (and they're monotonous - spice up those retarded campaigns)

blocked

www.bizrate.com
www.etronics.com
www.pricegrabber.com
www.pricetool.com
www.shopping.com

anymore common mass buyers of crappy ads?

[androidtech]

I didn't block those but in my web site's topic aread, I did block some 'generic' vendors were chewing up the the top slots (generic = related to my topical space, but in an 'umbrella' way, not specifically targeted to the sub-category my web site services).

I did this after I noticed a 50% drop in clicks. After removing them, the click count returned. YMMV.

thx

[ByronM]

I'm just hammered with the price comparison and shopping sites and there is only so many i want to have. In many cases on a skyscraper ad i get 4 ads for all of the above so its chance of a click is horrible.

Going to block out those suckers and give the competition some room. I know i may run into less ads or different ads but i think having more variety is alot better then the same ol' same ol' day in day out. Especially since it is a community site with recurring traffic that i'm loosing to wasted ads.

[ByronM]

just for an example this morning i had a few hundred impressions of just the same keyword for four different comanies and basic ad text for the same thing. will keep ya posted

[Yidaki]

Byron, although your suggestion seems reasonable it would disturb me if i'd run one of the sites you posted. It might be a good idea to keep such threads neutral and avoid posting special url's. These calls to action always smell ...

[martinibuster]

ByronM,
I agree with Yidaki. In fact, details for most any post are not necessary. This is an interesting thread but the specifics are a big no-no.