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Then came smartpricing, and like most webmasters I saw a drop. This slide continued for a couple of months, but I made one further major change that arrested the fall, and has turned the trend line on the chart in a positive upward direction. This change was over a month ago.
The change was to add any scraper sites and made for adsense sites that I saw on the site to the block list. My list isn't large - probably 30 sites, but it's enough to ensure I have well targetted ads the vast majority of the time.
The initial result of this change was to have the clicks/ctr drop by half. However, the epc was over double. The result was a 20% increase in earnings.
The longer term effect on seeing only relevant, quality adverts on the site is that smartpricing *seems* to have upped my site in it's rankings of providors of quality traffic that converts, hence I'm seeing a further increase in epc.
I know that some will say that the changes are probably due to external factors. I've been with adsense since Jan '04 so I am aware that what you earn often has no elation to what you do, and the externals are beyond your control. However, the externals cause short term blips - not sustained improvement.
When it comes to blocking ebay, the actual url that the ad gives is a huge great long thing relating to the affiliate. I want to get rid of the ebay all together, Will putting ebay.con or ebay.con.uk actually stop the ads as it is not the real url
Yes - but it takes at least 4 hours to take effect. I block ebay.com and ebay.co.uk
From the Google help section:-
The following rules apply to the competitive ad filter:
Entering example.com will block ads to example.com and example.com/sub
Entering example.com will also block ads to www.example.com and forums.example.com
www.example.com will block ads to www.example.com but not to forums.example.com or example.com
example.com/sub will not block ads to example.com/products or example.com/sub/index.html
Yes - but it takes at least 4 hours to take effect. I block ebay.com and ebay.co.uk
Thank you david_uk
When you block example.com does it also block the UK or other sites of the same example.com? Or it is not clear?
Also is it possible to list all the scrapper sites so we can all learn or it is not allowed?
Thank you.
The genuine ads (not scraper) that google is pulling based on my site's theme (country_name) are very few and not profitable. Please, o please, do tell me it'll get better by Monday! I am so close to scraping my entire ad filtering list!
