Where do I find the url's of Adsense fleas

Often spoke of nowhere in the threads

[newborn]

Hello Ive been asking this question for so long but ive not gotten any response, whats happening cant some one give me where I can get a list of these fleas, i have a recipe site and the more I pick off its the more that come back....yahoo.com is one but there are also several that are generic and accross the board that they can put me now down to .03 per click coupled with the fact that I have fallen to page 3 i the serps my traffic has gone down the tubes.

Someone please help me with this...

Newborn

[ann]

#1 There is NO LIST (we would love it if they would give us one)

#2 Serps are not associated with your adsense sites. Sites go up in serps on their own merits.

Sorry you waited so long.

Ann

[hunderdown]

There is no list, and although people have suggested compiling one I doubt that it would be of any value. It would have thousands of entries, only a few of which you would likely see on YOUR site.

MANY of the worst offenders are topic-specific. You have a recipe site--I bet my block list and yours have very little overlap, as other than ebay (the only generic URL I block) all the URLs in my filter have "publishing" or "writing" or similar terms in them.

What matters are the ones appearing on your site.

[ann]

to find url's and click the ads use Googles adsense preview tool

Ann

[newborn]

Yes but they are some that are tricky such as these <removed>....I PUN intended on the .comn because there are over 4 or five G Adsense ads on this site trust me ...but am I being too pensive I get average 11cents per click is this good or bad...

[edited by: jatar_k at 6:20 pm (utc) on Oct. 19, 2006]
[edit reason] no urls thanks [/edit]

[hunderdown]

11 cents is better than some and worse than others. I do better than that, but many average only a few cents.

[Chapman]

I often find that refining my content and/or meta tags gives much better results in controlling targeting than simply filling the filter with random URL's (although feeding the filter IS often necessary). David_uk likens solving targeting problems through URL filtering to Whack-A-Mole... hard to disagree!

Viewing your web pages with the Preview Tool really is the ONLY way to determine which adds need to be filtered. You can't (as has been said previously) use other peoples lists. Additionally, you really have to make sure when using the Preview Tool that the ads you add to the filter are actually being shown on your site as the tool will show many things that might seem logical to block but will never be shown.

And YES $0.11 for a click is not all that bad! Some days I'd be very happy with that for a click value!

Chapman

[Genuine1]

Just copy and past the main url that you want to block.

Like yahoo.com that you mentioned.
Ignore any www or anything before a dot (sub domain) like stuff.yahoo.com

Ignore anything after the slash too to block everything on the main URL. If not you may find hundreds of variations on a theme that you will not have the time or space to block!

Find the sites you want to block using the preview tool.
I find that only the main traffic areas (US, UK, Canada) are worth bothering with. The rest are low traffic (for me) and there are so many countries that you would never get to the end of your checking. Check as many pages on your sites as you have time for.

Some of what you will see will probably never appear on your site, and some of the stuff you will see on your site may not appear in the tool. But its by far the best method we have. It can take a long time before your blocking works. (days at times) and longer still to see any income improvement.

In cases where ythere are no "good" advertisers more bad ads may just replace your blocked ones. In other areas it really does improve things drastically.

[Pengi]

It may just be coincidence, but I tried adding "-keyword" to my meta tags keywords for a page that was not getting any on-target Ads and was picking up rubbish <keyword> ads. No idea what caused all the ringtomes ads to appear - first time I've seen this, but I noticed that others have had problems.

Worked a treat - all the rubbinsh ads disappeared and were replaced by spot on targeted ads.

Maybe negative keywords in the metatags is another tool to add to the competitive ad filter.

[edited by: jatar_k at 11:00 pm (utc) on Oct. 19, 2006]
[edit reason] no specifics thanks [/edit]

[hunderdown]

Pengi, if your theory proves true that could be very interesting--may be worth a new discussion thread?

[ArtistMike]

There are indeed lists of crappy sites that most people filter. Just do a search and you will find them on the net. I found one such list and plugged it into my filter and it worked just fine.

Mike

[Genuine1]

But since there are thousands of these sites targeting almost every keyword possible how can you fit the list into your filter?

[trannack]

I came across a site a whie back they deemed to provide lists of MFA urls to add to your filters. On closer inspection I noted that they were filtering out their competitors - and that a percentage of the urls to be filtered were in fact good, well paying sites. Just a cautionary note. This particular site - also plagued with adsense ads, was in my opinion one of the fleas!