If you are an Adsense publisher you’ve probably seen the very “helpful” optimization tips in your control panel over the last couple of months. I posted about them a while back, but a thread over on Digital Point got me thinking.
What if the poster’s theory were correct?
According to the poster:
Once I removed the sites from the bad filters list, income increased 25%
Of course there’s no indication of the figures involved, so whether it made a difference of 10 or 20 dollars a month or 200 is hard to say.
As an experiment I’ve decided to remove the filters on one of my accounts for a few days to see does it make any obvious difference. As it’s a long weekend here in Ireland I wouldn’t expect there to be much difference until Tuesday at the earliest (earnings tend to be lower at weekends and long weekends as people aren’t as tied to their PCs)
Any time I cleared the competitive ad filter my earnings bombed. Up until the 1st of June I was able to track ad clicks but unfortunately Google has disabled that ability now 🙁
Google has apparently killed the accounts of a lot of MFA sites but there’s no way I’d remove all of them yet.
Donncha
I’m going to give it a go for a few days to see what happens. Most of the sites I had filtered weren’t splogs / MFA, though there may have been one or two.
How were you tracking the clicks?
Michele
It’s a mixture of a few packages. Look for adlogger which does something similar, or at least used to. It’s a pity because I was half-way through doing a “better” competitive ad filter with history and other features..