eBay Out and AdSense Revenues... Up or Down?

[MaxFischer]

Yesterday, I believe, was the first day that eBay pulled their ads from AdWords/AdSense. Coincidentally, AdSense revenues were also up yesterday. Coincidence? Anyone else have the same experience?

Probably means I should still be filtering out eBay.

[Eazygoin]

eBay ads still showing in the UK

[benevolent001]

I dont know if its related to same but ebay going out shouldnt have any effect as such on revenues except some more relevant ads showing up and improved user experience and hence more revenues

As a Adwords user i am still bidding the same irrespective ebay is in or ebay is out , there is some shuffle in positions for sure.

Ebay stopped this only in USA till date

[edited by: benevolent001 at 4:01 pm (utc) on June 14, 2007]

[celgins]

It is probably a bit early to reach any conclusions about the effect Ebay's disappearance will have on the Adsense network as a whole.

Plus, some suspect that Ebay's departure may only be temporary.

eBay ads still showing in the UK

According to the report, they only pulled ads from the U.S. side.

[greatstart]

You still need to have these URLs in your filter:

ebay.ca
ebay.de
ebay.fr
ebay.in
ebay.nl
ebay.co.uk

[martinibuster]

Anyone think that removing a bidder will depress earnings due to less competition?

[Play_Bach]

> Anyone think that removing a bidder will depress earnings due to less competition?

I do. That's why I don't have anything in my filter. In my more competitive niche there are very few junk ads - they're priced out.

[edited by: Play_Bach at 6:26 pm (utc) on June 14, 2007]

[europeforvisitors]

Anyone think that removing a bidder will depress earnings due to less competition?

Of course, since Google displays the highest-paying ads that it can.

I block ads for some of my affiliate partners with the Competitive Ad Filter, but I doubt if more than half a dozen domains are on the list. (I haven't checked lately--I pretty much leave the filter alone.)

[incrediBILL]

Anyone think that removing a bidder will depress earnings due to less competition?

I filtered out eBay ages ago so I noticed no change.

Less competition isn't always the issue because nobody was clicking on their crap ads which showed up all over the place on my site. Removing generic junk like eBay ads actually drove my revenue UP as they were just clogging ad space with nonsense that didn't work on my site.

Obviously the eBay ads worked somewhere as they were spending a bunch of money on advertising, but they didn't work for me.