Should I be worried If I get eBay ads all the time?

All eBay all the Time!

[brokenbricks]

It seems that on almost every ad I have, across a few very different topic websites, one of the first ads to show is always an ebay ad.

I read here somewhere and was under the impression that the first ad block and first ad generated on the page is the highest paying ad. Is that correct? Does that mean ebay is out bidding all advertisers in my niche?

When clicking a link unit, is the first ad listed the highest paying?

ebay has generic garbage ads for everything, am I in a bad niche if ebay is always part of my top ads?

[Sobriquet]

ebay is spamming the system it seems! worse, i started an amazon shop a few days ago, for trial and ran adsense on it.

90% of ads were ebay! lol

[Zygoot]

When clicking a link unit, is the first ad listed the highest paying?

Yes and no.

It is believed the first unit has mostly not the highest EPC and that Google's algo shows ads with the highest EPC x CTR first.

If firm a pays $0.5 for an ad and has a 10% CTR and firm b pays $1 while having only a 2% CTR then the algo will chose the ad from firm a because it should make more money because of the higher CTR.

ebay has generic garbage ads for everything, am I in a bad niche if ebay is always part of my top ads?

The algo isn't perfect and in some cases it's better to ban those generic eBay ads. I've banned them and after doing it my overall earnings improved.

[webnoob]

yes, the ebay ads are annoying.. they are just using keywords and the landing page has nothing to do with the ads.. spamming all sorts of keywords just to get ads to display on website(s).

for some reason i only seem to get the ebay ads on the main page not internal pages even though the content is about the same.

they are desperate i guess..

[andrea99]

Yes, enter "Katrina Relief" and see an ad reading "Buy Katrina Relief on Ebay." It is spam.

[bumpski]

I'm sure the purpose of these ads is to lure people to Ebay in the hope they will sign up as new users. These are Ebay affiliates advertising, not Ebay itself. And an Adwords advertiser is no longer required to indicate they are an affiliate, something like (aff.) is no longer required on the ad pushing Ebay.

[affiliates.ebay.com...]

A new user sign up at Ebay earns $20, actually up to $45. That kind of income supports a lot of clicks. I have no idea what these Ebay ads are paying per click, I've blocked ebay.com on the Adsense competitors block for my sites. These ads are basically competition with every website on the web, since the ads are shown for so many keyword combinations! Historically one example was "newborn fawn". You'd get "Buy newborn fawns at Ebay"! These advertisers really don't care about a low click through rates, just volume, and they probably are even creating new Adwords accounts frequently to keep the volume of impressions up.

Ebay's just now revising their affiliate program so who knows what's next!

[icedowl]

eBay is permanently on my filter list. I really got disgusted with them when I saw an ad for "new and used cake frosting". Eeuwww!

[ann]

Ebay has been banned for awhile and thats when my income took an uptick.

Ann

[Swebbie]

Not a huge difference, but I too saw an uptick in revenue when I put ebay.com on my filter list. Most of those ads are just trash.

[david_uk]

I block ebay, scrapers and made for adsense sites. That way both Google and my income from the program is maximised.

You really would have thought that Google would have given us an option to block scrappy junk that doesn't earn them/us the maximum. I have no idea what the targetting bot is up to sometimes. There isn't a shortage of quality advertisers trying to sell to my niche, and a lot of the time adsense targets properly and we are both happy. Other times their bot has a wobbly and shows all sorts of irrelevant, low paying ads. Sometimes the only way to get quality, well paying ads seems to be to block the junk that adsense targets!