How to locate the low paying ads?

[born2run]

Hi I sometimes think I have to aggressively block some low paying ads that are appearing all the time but the question is that out of say 5 it could be the highest paying! So how to locate the ad that pays least (per click)?

Any tips would be appreciated. born2run

[Jenstar]

Do you realize that by blocking the lower paying ones, they will simply be replaced by ones that are worth even less per click? AdSense shoes they highest paying ads available. Blocking lower paying ones won't allow higher paying ones to take their places, but instead, even lower paying ones will appear.

This thread has more details on how blocking ads can really make you less money, and not more:

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[Broadway]

I don't worry about this because I was under the impression that Google calculates past history and servers up the best performing and the highest paying Adwords ads it has available. Maybe I'm wrong. However it would seem that this activity would be in both their and my best interest.

Anyway, I thought I had read here on WW that people mentioned that when they put a second Adsense advertising unit on a page that the lower ad block contained the lower paying ads. I don't know how they came to this conclusion.

[diamondgrl]

Seems counterproductive because of the reasons listed. You'll just make less money.

[born2run]

Thanks for the reply my next question is does Adsense figure out which is the most popular ad that is being clicked and then publishes ads similar to those? That would be nice :)

[DollarKid]

there are tracking scripts that will tell you wish ads are being clicked the most

[amznVibe]

Blocking *certain* ads can be very productive, even if they are high payout per click - they are useless if they are wildly off topic and no one clicks. I've found that blocking amazon and ebay ads (among a few other generics) has helped alot.

Ebay is starting to look kinda stupid with their ads. Trying searching for "death" in Google and see what I mean, sheesh.

There are other ads like for dating and even porn sometimes which are downright tasteless and I block them out of personal preference not to degrade my sites with them. How Google decides to show these on some of my pages I have no clue. I haven't regretted blocking them yet, CPM has never been higher.

[edited by: amznVibe at 6:49 pm (utc) on Dec. 22, 2004]

[ogletree]

The only reason I ever blocked was that my pages were about a specific state. I blocked all the ads I saw that had ohter states in them. After a while G seemed to catch on and only servers ads that are on topic.