Ebay Ads

To ban or not to ban?

[jouwpagina]

What do you do and why?

[mzanzig]

I don't block any ads (though I am always tempted to), that includes eBay stuff. I strongly believe that users will return to good content if they do not find what they are looking for on the advertisers site. If G believes that this is the best ad to display, you will just loose revenue if you block such ads.

-- Mark

[jetteroheller]

116 in the filter, shure also Ebay.

I do not like ads offering Italians, the Vatican and used dog cake.

I have some ad channels reacting very sensitive on not cleaning up with degrading CTR

It's not only good content, I like to see also only good ads on my site.

[vordmeister]

I block ebay ads. I block other types of spam too. I felt the ebay ads were not useful to my visitors - they dump the visitor on the main ebay home page (I experimented with an ad on someone else's site) - not even to a search for "new and used dead people".

Also my feeling was they make the ads look less useful as a whole and might make the ad block look spammy.

My earnings didn't go down when I removed ebay ads.

[bts111]

Get rid of them.

If you ever want to promote Ebay I suggest that you use cj.

[jim_w]

I have found that if I get an ebay ad, it’s because that page doesn’t perform well for the advertisers, that then make a minimum bid for that page’s KW, or have a negative KW filter on, or both. So I just remove the ads. I would create a channel for those pages, a channel for each and monitor for a couple of weeks and see if those pages are performing well for you. If you have more than one ad block, then try removing one ad block till the ebay ads disappear.

I don’t think ebay is paying top dollar for ads that are mismatched for content. But w/o having a channel to see, I don’t think you could know.

That’s just what I do though.

[spaceylacie]

I don't have Ebay ads showing on my sites, can't find a single one. I used to have them before my EPC went up recently. If you get your CTR and eCPM up, that should increase your EPC, then Google will ban Ebay for you.