So a while ago I put Adsense on this site, mainly to get myself spidered as I was in the sandbox for building too many quality link backs too fast..(I am king of blog whoring)..
For those that don’t know..
Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website’s content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your site – or matched to the characteristics and interests of the visitors your content attracts – you’ll finally have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages.
It’s also a way for website publishers to provide Google web and site search to their visitors, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages.
Anyway some time back we used to filter the Adsense adverts on https://www.security-forums.com, to get rid of both the ones that didn’t pay well and those we thought wouldn’t be interesting to our audience, it made quite a difference to both the click through rate and the earnings. But that was a big site.
Anyway Liewcf posted about a similar thing not long back, so I decided to filter my Adsense ads here to see if it make any difference. It does, not a huge amount, but it is a blog, a fairly low traffic blog.
BTW my referal spam blocking[/url] is going great! I’ve given the files to Suan too, so she can implement the same thing.
So what you need to do, is log into Adsense, go to Ad Settings then click Competitive Ad Filter.
From there you can filter out any URL’s you don’t want to be displayed.
Google says:
Google combines advanced technology with editorial staff to ensure the highest quality standards in our ad program, but we recognize that you may not want certain ads, such as your competitors’ ads, to show on your website. Ads that link to sites on your filter list won’t appear on your content pages. You can update your list anytime, and changes will take effect within a few hours. Please note that filtering sites may decrease your potential earnings and/or the number of ads that can appear on your web pages.
You can find the associated guide HERE.
So I propose we make a community list of blog related URL’s to block from Adsense. Here are the ones I’ve collected in the last couple of weeks, I get virtually no Blog related adverts any more:
agematch.com
aish.com
arc99.com
ardice.com
assortedinternet.com
audioblog.com
blog-software-blog.com
blog.co.uk
blogexplosion.com
blogger.com
bloggercrab.com
blogging-bonanza.com
bloggingbiz.com
bloggingequalizer.com
bloggingsecrets.com
blogharbor.com
blogidentity.com
blogigo.com
blogit.com
blogizm.com
blogjet.com
blogmysite.com
blogomonster.com
blogpulse.com
blogspot.com
blogster.com
blogstogo.com
blogware.com
buzzmetrics.com
canaca.com
cerado.com
cheblogs.com
chrisabraham.com
cohit.com
computerweekly.com
creative-weblogging.com
dealtime.co.uk
didakutz.com
digg.com
digitalearning.com
domaindirect.com
dreamhost.com
easyeart.co.uk
editme.com
egoweblog.com
enewsblog.com
etraveldiary.com
ezsgblog.com
faces.com
fieldinfocus.co.uk
findnot.com
flexfinder.com
forum4bloggers.com
fotothing.com
freeenterpriseland.com
friendcircles.com
fullscalecommerce.com
futublog.com
go27.com
google.co.uk
google.com
gowholesale.com
homocon.com
igossip.com
infoworld.com
isontheweb.co.uk
ittoolbox.com
journalhome.com
journallog.com
keepmedia.com
lesbianconnect.com
majorscripts.com
makepropaganda.com
mamma.com
marketingwithsafelists.com
miego.com
moretoblog.com
myblogsite.com
myownblog.net
myrsscreator.com
netfirms.com
newbay.com
newsgator.com
ohiomortgageblog.com
person.com
phpwebhosting.com
plentyoffish.com
pluck.com
prosperall.com
ratherbecreative.com
rayslist.com
rocketinfo.com
rockgarden.co.uk
rsscache.com
schtuff.com
search-detective.net
secretsofsuccess.com
securesafepro.com
slate.com
socioeconomics.com
sparkpod.com
squarespace.com
stampedesecret.com
stylusstudio.com
successblog.biz
texturadesign.com
thethingsiwant.com
tractionsoftware.com
traffictransit.com
travelblog.org
travelpod.com
travelpost.com
typepad.com
userland.com
volanthosting.com
vortexhost.com
wareareyou.com
webfetch.com
webpromall.com
wireclub.com
wonderbranding.com
workpad.com
yourfreeblog.com
If you have collected any yourself that are different from those here, please post them in a comment.
I’ll keep this list updated with the latest version including those in the comments below.
Cheers!
*LIST UPDATED JULY 17th*
http://www.squarespace.com
http://www.search-detective.net/
http://www.stampedesecret.com
http://www.pluck.com
http://www.blogidentity.com
i think these are the ones that you left out. How much does it increase your CTR anyway? My avg is 1.4%, before i implement this was around 1.2%, this month (so far) is 2.4%. =) but mainly because i have been writing alot of geeky stuff (like games and server hosting) lately, which attracted more clicks. Then again, I have my other methods 🙂
Not really long enough to judge yet, but before was around 0.3% now is around 1.2%
aish.com
travelblog.org
travelpost.com
secretsofsuccess.com
Here’s mine. Filtering the ads broke the 1 USD barrier (for me)
Yeah I’ve almost reached $4 now, woo!
now this is great news !!!! thanks bro
hey this is good stuff… nice job.
wah i just used your entire list. i got 2 clicks liao. cool!!!! thanks
No worries, let’s all be happy together 😀
I’ll keep it updated with the latest ones, so if you have any to add let know.
Just copy and paste the full list now and then.
good idea. i’ve imported the list and i presume the above list is of low CPM, right?
Yeah, plus they are are blog related or along those lines, like RSS feeds, so unless you block these you just get loads of blog related articles, not those relevant to your actual content.
aish.com
arc99.com
audioblog.com
…
*EDITED BY ADMIN FOR BREVITY*
Thanks for that list dude, very nice.
I took out all the www. as some were causing duplicates, and took out all the subdomains, as it’s more effective just filter overall domain. I then filtered for unique rows in Excel after combining with my own list. The above is a combination of all.
Cheers!
Aiseh! Thanks. As soon as I get my first cheque I’ll buy you a beer.
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Thanks ST for the listing. Now all my ads has no blog related =) So far only this
blogratingz.com
This is a great list – thanks for the start.
I have finally found the “clean” template I have been searching for so long — your navigation menu above and the entire template of the Shaolin Tiger website is perfect.
Is this template unique to BBlog, or are you able to share where I might get the code for this template — does BBlog have a list of templates, just as WordPress users have — like the huge list of templates at Alex King’s Blog for WordPress users, for example?
Roseanne van Langenberg
Hi thanks for the praise 😉
The original template I used is a BBLog template, but it’s fairly simple so could be adapted for anything.
You can find the current template gallery here:
Template Gallery
And download it HERE.
It’s fairly straight forward so you should be able to tweak it to your needs.
Cheers!
Here are three Adsense Tips, together with the required HTML code, to dramatically increase CTRs ..one is using images, which has seen a dramatic increase in CTR’s over 400 percent, the second from the Shaolin Blog
well i making some 45 blogs for my site boomdate.com but after the 3 month i always see no result ..wat i do next
Facing teh same problem…even after excluding sites, most hits are worth no more than a few pennies…please advise ..thanks