Dick Logan

I finally started filtering out Adsense arbitrage sites and I can already see a dramatic difference in my earnings. Ads that have been consistently earning only one or three pennies per click have shot up significantly.

When I first scanned my site I was really shocked to see how many arbitrage ads really were on the website. My surprise soon turned to anger and now I’m devoted to weeding out any of the evil websites at all costs. How dare they steal my honest and heard-earned revenue!

To see for yourself who’s paying you those one or two cent clicks that you’ve been wondering about, you’ll have to use the Adsense Preview Tool given by Google which only works in Internet Explorer.

How to scan your website for cheap ads and arbitrage links:

1. Download the Adsense Preview Tool here at Google.

2. Double click on the saved file and hit “Yes”.

3. Re-start Internet Explorer and you’re good to go.

Once you have the preview tool installed, right-click anywhere on a web page and the ads available for display will pop up in a window where you can click on them to examine their destination. If you find an unwanted site, click the checkbox next to it and hit the “show urls” button to get a list of the sites that you want to block. Once you have that, you’ll want to put it in your Adsense competitor filter list.

How to filter Adsense ads:

1. Login to Adsense and select the “Adsense Setup” tab.

2. At the top select “Competitive Ad Filter”.

3. Enter your urls to be blocked into the dialog box.

4. Hit “Save Changes”.

Be careful when you block sites that you put them in the correct format as explained on the filter list by Google, as you may block a whole site that may pay you good money in another category other than the one you scanned.

A big downside to this is that filtering is limited only to 200 websites. However, it is well worth taking the small amount of time to do this and dramatically improve your amount of money earned per click.