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I have been adding MFAs and other rubbish to the filter for over a year. It always increased my income. Everything that did not DIRECTLY sell a product or service went in.
Its been full for months and I cannot filter any more.
Today earlier I removed them all.
Now lets see what happens. David_UK tried this in another thread. iI expect to get similar results.
My income this month is lower than average after a really good Dec, Jan, Feb. Those months were 125 average daily, varying by a maximum of 21 dollars up/down including weekends. More usually they were within 5 dollars... This is normal for my site - very constant average income for over two years in fact.
This month is lower at an average of 110 daily with a bad start early in the month of 90 ish. Its been steadily improving back to the usual 120+
Now I suspect that todays earnings will be low. Very low. Because in a few hours all thise spammy MFA sites will be back! How long does this take?
Lets see! Will post later on to let you know what the figure is before I go to the pub! Normally it has always been between 75 and 95 (by 9.30) here in the UK. Any guesses?
Is there a way to block this annoying multiple domain free offer guys Adsense Client Code?
Added: I encourage everyone to keep a close eye on who is advertising on your site. I know I will from now on.
As usual, I believe Google should be taking a more active role in policing this, but after the fiasco last night when they invited me to participate in the Google payments Beta, I am not impressed with the brain power at the 'Plex.
Great post, thanks. Made me aware of how much crap is out there advertising on my pages.
Weird though. I hope for me it's the other way around. Would like to have some control over my earning-drops by filtering out the crap.
But we'll see.
It would be great to compare notes.
"Advertise on this site" is disabled in my case. Since I disabled this option (shortly after it was introduced, about 3-4 months ago) i am noticing a slow but gradual decline on all fronts...EPC, Quality of ad targeting and advertisers.
Those who are experiencing growth in the number of spam ads and reduction in income, is "Advertise on this site" enabled or disabled in your case?
Your comments are appreciated.
Wondering if there is any connection between disabling "Advertise on this site" and the sudden appearance of loads of spam ads shortly after.
Don't know why the two would be connected. I disabled that a couple of months ago, and it hasn't had any noticeable effect--I disabled it because some people had theorized that having it there makes it more obvious that the ads are ads, reducing CTR.
Disabling didn't affect CTR or cause spam ads to flock to my site.
Now I am going to delete the old ban list and spend all day creating a fresh one. Because many of the old list no longer exist, or no longer advertise.
I have one site that ONLY displayed MFAs! once the banned list was removed.
For what its worth that site gets little traffic and earns bugger all anyway but should you be interested it was a real business site that was built for a customer. Free. If I was allowed to add some ads! Its about weddings and limos. Spam city or what!
But so far its a slow day!
this result is artificially "good"
Here's an equally unsubstantiated contradictory claim:
your results are artificially "bad" because you didn't give Google enough time to figure out which of the "rubbish" ads would make you the most money on which pages in what position.
The pattern, and the results were the same so far.
The difference is that after a week it looked even worse!
And even if having loads of these scummy sites actually helped income, I would ban them anyway!
I dont see why I would want to share the advertisers buget with a freeloader. It puts my own visitors off, they think that this garbage is a link I put up!
And in the end it will stop everyone wanting to click those links. Already lots of people have learned to avoid them "because they just go to pages of links" (my own gf.
Sorry but I dont think google learns by historical data anyway. It just uses its algo to match whatever current ads it has as best it can. It cannot see the difference between a real ad, and a freeloading garbage site.
so google has plenty of data to work with when it comes to serving up mfa's in advantageous positions on your pages.
This morning I removed all these advertisers (except eBay) from my list and now it's recovering again.
Maybe I should have given it a few more days but since I added these advertisers to my block list two days ago my income only went down.
before you put an advertiser in the filter, go out to their website and see what they are really about.
definetely not, this would destroy lot of proper advertisers... some noob would then try effect of "*.*" too :)
You should be able to block all .co.uk domains by entering just
co.uk
into the filter. It does not work with pure top level domains, though, so you can not enter
uk
into the filter. This will result in an error message.
I have considered blocking all .co.uk as well, but I see a lot of legitimate advertisers from the UK, so this would be not a wise move. However, if your site has clearly nothing or little to do with the UK, then just go ahead - saves you a lot of trouble. Just to give you one example, I have one very aggressive advertiser from the UK that uses SIXTEEN slots in my filter list. All sites are the same crap, just packaged into new layouts. Would be great to get rid of this advertiser in one go...
I also block a few that appear on site but DONT appear in the "tool". If you refresh it a few times they all appear in the tool/page eventually!
zygoot, it sounds like your standards for what constitutes an acceptable advertiser could be part of the problem... for instance, why restore all the mfa'ers, but leave ebay in the filter?before you put an advertiser in the filter, go out to their website and see what they are really about.
I left eBay in the filter because I already block them for more than a year - with good results. I keep blocking them because I know that these eBay affiliates don't pay a lot.
the tool has not been accurate for me, no matter how many times it gets refreshed.
All sites I blocked were either MFA, 'click here to get a free widget' sites, 'work at home and earn $5000 a month' sites, clickbank sites and a couple of shop comparison sites.
I see a few 'click here for free stuff', but it's usually related to my niche. Is it still junk regardless? I'm just now going through the process of going through my ads, and just blocked completely unrelated stuff.
