I Know Why People Aren't Clicking!

Very few new ads.

[azlinda]

I just went through all 38,000 pages of my site. The same old tired ads keep showing up...How I Lost My Belly Fat, etc. There is nothing exciting at all for people to click on. I have my own personal opinion of why there are no good ads on Google, but I will not make my opinion public.

[Shaddows]

Sure, the 'Fat' ads will be targetted at a whole load of sites, based on a wide range of criteria. But if you are a food related site, I would say you have a very high chance of getting them.

I would also suggest you have readers who have no interest in clicking the ads. Thus, if you block them, whatever ads you get instead is likely to improve your revenue.

[azlinda]

For each fat ad I put in the competitive ad filter, three more crop up! It's getting to be an all-day project. Where in the world are they all coming from?

[iridiax]

I see those fat ads everywhere, especially on news sites.

[vertigo72]

I had similar problem, always same 3-4 ads, dating websites. After readig this thread, I blocked them. Now, there is many more ads, much better related. The CTR is a little bit better, but not so much (yet?)

I also noticed that those ads was from some kind of "agencies", the link (adurl) points to a page that makes a redirect to the actual site. Another strange thing, sometimes the link contans the name of my website. However, I never seen those ads in my ad review center. How is that possible?

[koan]

My competitive filter is empty (too much work) but there was a time when the topic of one of my web site was heavily targeted by arbitrageurs/MFA sites and it paid pennies. I tried to block them but here were too many. Now it is not targeted by them anymore (lets say it has gone out of fashion), the EPC is a lot better and overall revenue is up.