December 15, 2006 9,476 235 2.48% $3.06 $28.99 after in five days : 41 - 30 - 20 December 27, 2006 10,315 255 2.47% $0.34 $3.53 before three days : 2 - 3 - 2 so what do you think about the problem ? suddenly the CPM dicreased. may be lowest payouts for clicks , but whatever ? do you think that google's madiabot gives sites a quality score ? thanks for your opinions ...
I really want to learn something about Quality Score. If Google gives a score , this means my score is too low. If it won't change , I won't work on that site , because I always work long term. So this click rate is not enough for me to keep that site alive. I will wait for a limited time and will make a decision. Or I may remove adsense for a limited time and try again later. Codes are on the site for 25 days. I think I must wait and see. But this score thing really makes me angry
It's possible that the niche your site is in lost some of its highest bidders. Are your site based clicks up/same/lower? They should not have gone up that significantly, but it could be a contributing factor (certainly should not be the main factor) Are you tracking ads that are clicked? Perhaps the ads people clicked on before were high priced, but now they are clicking on lower priced ads. You might be showing too many ads, so some low priced ones get in. What kind of visitors do you have? If they are mostly the same set of visitors, maybe they have already looked at the "good" ads. Possibily you have been smart priced. Is this a new site? Is AdSense new to it? If this is a small site on a cheap server, I would keep it. Even at $1-2 a day, it should pay for itself. No reason to drop it if it pays for itself (even if you don't plan to update it in the near future.
It could just be that a lot of people are using adwords vouchers for you keywords at the moment. I'm pretty convinced that the adwords vouchers do not pay out for what they are bidding (i've yet to see concrete evidence of this, but from my hunches of how google works I guess it could be the case). This is a personal opinion and could be totally false, its just my belief in how the adwords voucher scheme is working.
My earnings this month are ~ 2/3 of the previous 6 months. # of clicks is actually higher w/ a significant decrease in earnings. Not sure what is going on.
Site age : 38 days Adsense age on the site : 24 days Unique visitors : 3000 ( 1500 search engine ) Page views : 10.000 Click rate is same , page views are same , all rates are same , but cpm dicreased 2.5 -> 0.25 , so earnings 25$ -> 2.5$. I watch all my stats , they were working well and they were in a realistic way of success. druidelder , I know all the possibilites that you mentioned , but are these explanations give me the answer of 10 times of dicreasing rate ? Sometimes you get lower costed clicks , sometimes you lose your higher bidders , sometimes people clicks lower costed ads or sometimes etc. But we say that SOMETIMES , not at all time , and they can not happen in the same time , they can not dicrease the cpm 3.0 to 0.3. I do not know a lot about smart pricing... It may be that I mentioned in my first post as " Quality Score " , if it is right... oh my god ! I worked for this site about six monhts , and I was waiting something about 20$ for a single day. What does smart pricing says ? Does it give a score for a site ? I read something about smart pricing in Google Adsense Inside blog. But they do not explain detailed. Can someone give me two cents about smart pricing ?
I searched a lot about smart pricing but the best information is at Jensense http://www.jensense.com/archives/2005/10/one_poorly_conv.html Now I am happy because they say that smart pricing changes time to time. Now my pain is time.
Your niche may be seasonal. Also if your content is about summer, you might not be going well now as it is Summer in USA and Europe.