Made for AdWords pages

Cicking out every URL bothering my visitors

[jetteroheller]

Just cleaning up my add space.

Only direct offers allowed!

Everything only created to play some affliate game and annoying my visitors with pages made for Adwords, just to bother my valuable visitors to find a long list of affliate links comes now in the URL filter.

General affliate pages
Overture affliate pages
Ebay affliate pages

I have much repeated visitors, and bad ads stop from visiting ads

[jetteroheller]

Just before midnight from Thursday to Friday, I put every Affliant Ad into the URL Filter.

Now for the first 30 hours, I notice a much higher CTR.

More details in 18 hours when I get the Channel report for Friday. Very curriouse about it, because only one domain making about 1/3 of my earnings was heavy affected by bad ads.

[MikeNoLastName]

Good job! Your CTR will probably go down a few tenths, but you'll normally find your PPC ($Earnings/clicks) seeing the most benefit and far outweighing the CTR decline to increase your CPM!

The trick is figuring out the last few sly ones paying the min bid but coming up consistently high and draining your customers. Here's my secret... Search for your page's keyword on G and compare the ads at top and on the right to the ones which come up. G isn't stupid. They consistently put the top ads at the top of their OWN searches. Any that aren't in the top ten there, you should take a long hard look at. Be careful of ones which don't come up at all though, as they MAY be bidding high (or low) on another UNEXPECTED keyword.

Oh, and BTW, be prepared to do it all again in 2-3 days, as new ones are ALWAYS popping up!

Good luck!

[jetteroheller]

Now first channel results for the site which was most effected by affliant adds

Compares Thursday against Friday

Thursday: last day with useless affliant adds
Friday: first day with cleaned up add space

CTR: increased 74%
CPM: increased 10%
PPC: decreased 37%

[brianalex]

Can you explain to me how to remove redirects to Ebay etc? I have already added Ebay to my URL Filter in AdSense, but Ads are still appearing, presumably from affilites or cloaked affiliates.

I am finding this confusing!

Many thanks
Brian

[bumpski]

Just double checking; did you add "www-ebay-com" or just "ebay-com" to your URL filters list?

Also don't forget the Adsense preview tool, it can help a little.

[jetteroheller]

There is no simple way to do it.
Check with the AdSense preview tool the typical ads on Your site.

I let Ebay itself, Ebay uses also not ebay.com or so,
they use <snip>

I would not look this, because also valuable advertisers like Dell use this address.

My current URL filter for my German sites is

<snip>

Adding this list to my URL filter caused the above mentioned changes between Thursday and Friday

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:15 pm (utc) on Feb. 6, 2005]
[edit reason] please - no specific urls [/edit]

[brianalex]

Thanks - in the URL filter I have ebay.com and ebay.co.uk - but ebay ads are still getting through

[jefuchs]

I'm surprized to read this. As a newbie, all I did was add ebay to the list, and never got ads again.

[jetteroheller]

More channel results for the site which was most effected by affliant adds

Wednesday Thursday:
last day with useless affliant adds

Friday Saturday:
first day with cleaned up add space

CTR: increased 60%
CPM: increased 32%
PPC: decreased 18%

[webmastertexas]

jetteroheller,

Maybe I'm thick, but I can't quite figure it out. Did your earnings GO UP or GO DOWN with your "clean ad space" technique?

[jetteroheller]

The CPM is up.

Shure, there is not so much traffic on Friday and Saturday compared to Wednesday and Thursday.

So it will take 5 days more to have a full week to compare.

[MikeNoLastName]

For the folks having trouble filtering the ebay ads, don't forget the UK and other country variations of the ebay URL. Also you will likely never get rid of ALL of them since there are a lot of ebay affiliates, sending traffic indirectly through other domain landing pages. But you can get the biggest culprits by simply looking through your pages and preview toolbar-ing the ads which come up most frequently (usually about a dozen) and adding them ALL to your filters (don't try to copy the full path, just add the whole domain: xyz.com - if they're coming up under one path chances are ALL paths on that domain are ebay links).
Then reapeat by going after the individual affiliates to other similar services. WELL worth the time spent!

[jetteroheller]

After built for affliant pages, I discovered at an other of my domains an other class of unwanted ads:

MLM Multi level marketing

And I discovered a real made for AdSense site.

Logo, 300x250 AdSense box

Google Search box.

No chance to escape this site without closing or
clicking an ad.