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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: Rooftop on August 11, 2014, 06:03:51 PM

Title: Find ads on website
Post by: Rooftop on August 11, 2014, 06:03:51 PM
I'm trying to put together slides for a talk I am doing.  I want to include some screen shots of adverts on well-known websites that break with that old school idea of not showing ads on conversion driven websites.  Examples I've included already: tesco.com, ticketmaster, lastminute.com

I need more examples.

Question 1 : If anyone spots one that makes them raise an eyebrow can they let me know. Double gratitude points for AdSense, but any network style ad is a winner

Question 2 : I've got a list of sites running AdSense from builtwith. There are some great domains there: barackobama.com qvc.com gap.com .  It can be hard to find the ads.  I've been using screaming frog to crawl and trying to find ads using the custom filters.  Anyone know a faster / better way?

Thanks
Title: Re: Find ads on website
Post by: JasonD on August 11, 2014, 07:21:36 PM
A "mention only " report in Majestic for googlesyndication.com

PS I got your email, I'll call you tomorrow :)
Title: Re: Find ads on website
Post by: littleman on August 11, 2014, 09:25:42 PM
I'm a bit surprised gap.com is running AdSense.  I worked on that site maybe 8 years ago and couldn't imagine them going that route back then.
Title: Re: Find ads on website
Post by: Rooftop on August 11, 2014, 09:57:11 PM
I'm not overly confident in the builtwith list to be honest. That's part of what I'm trying to do.

Majestic would be a result if that works. I'll give it a shot.
Title: Re: Find ads on website
Post by: JasonD on August 12, 2014, 03:55:28 PM
> Majestic would be a result if that works. I'll give it a shot.

It works :)

From memory you can't do a standard report because you want "mentions" and that's only available in the advanced part of the resports.
Title: Re: Find ads on website
Post by: Rooftop on August 12, 2014, 09:26:54 PM
uses a few analysis units doesn't it! :)
Title: Re: Find ads on website
Post by: JasonD on August 12, 2014, 09:32:20 PM
hehehe. The download may not be possible.

I broke it about 5 years ago doing exactly what you're doing and ended up chatting with Alex about it. It seems a 2GB file causes a few issues with how he had his server set up.

To be fair re analysis units, you're going after quite a popular domain :)

PS I called and left a message earlier. Hopefully we can catch up tomorrow.
Title: Re: Find ads on website
Post by: Rooftop on August 12, 2014, 09:51:01 PM
Didn't get the message yet. I shall flog the minion responsible.