This blew me away ($$$$$$)?

I hope I have your attention, because I have no idea how to interperet the following. I was checking out my adsense search returns this morning. I saw the following. Now, I have the url for the image, if I can post it, but basically the effective CPM was $11,000 and the payout was no where near, but still pretty large.

Does that make sense? Does that mean the G received 10K for that one search? I was stunned, and if me posting this is in anyways a bad idea or against their TOS, please let me know by emailing me directly so I can remove it. I don't think it is, but sometimes you never know. If I can post the image let me know, so you can see it for yourself. Maybe others have had the same thing???

 

It was 2 page impressions, 1 click and $10,995. I made near the averages you talked about. I need to find out what that search was for

 

HAHA, I will tell you the search if you PM me...Im the one that did it, after enjoying your blog post.

 

that means you got a $20 keyword page. what is the keyword? everything i do is very average. i believe the adwords price dropped a lot in recent month, however the low bid at $0.05 are heated. so more people are bidding $0.1 and less people are bidding at $10.

 

I believe it would be against Google's TOS for me to let you know what the $20 keyword is.

 

It's already against the TOS telling us about the CPM and how much you got for your click

 

Then I guess I have learned my lesson.

 

unless you are not related to adsense.
google ban only adsense or adword users to disclose them. it is a loophole in their TOS. it has no control of 3rd parties.

 

If you add an IMG tag to your Adsense Search code, you have a decent shot of determing what they search for - take a look at my test page if you are interested in an example.

 

smart move.
i don't think adsearch is that profitable, otherwise i will run it. TOS said you can not change the code of search codes, but it does not say anything about you can not change the value of the code from outside of the code, such as automatically call the script or insert search strings into it. i don't many will click the ads, as google's template is not designed for higher CTR.

i designed for high CTR, however i lost a lot of visitors, as the new design is looking weired. CTR is also coming down, after realize the new layout.

i am still developing my next generate high CTR pages, i think its CTR will be at 20% to 25% and stays there without dropping, as i will intercert something dynamic that my visitors will not stop using my site.

 

FYI FWIW: my test page is (as the name implies) just a test page where I play around with stuff - I doubt this is against the TOS, but it was more just an idea of how to track what people were punching in and I'm one of those inquisitive guys that likes to see how things work - Shawn actually get the credit for the idea - no surprise! ;-)

 

That test page of your is a nice idea!

 

Really nice idea, indeed.

 

What does this do for you? I noticed you added the </img> tag, but how does that help you?

 

I just updated my test page with an example of what the web logs look iike when you do this ... and just for grins, here are some recent searches done on this page - does anyone recognize any of these?!?

66.169.240.211 q=golf+ball+display Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)
69.198.185.217 q=fucking+shit Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
198.164.252.42 q=test Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1;.NET CLR 1.1.4322)
80.141.255.100 q=bank Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
68.118.219.228 q=dog Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
24.165.43.57 q=test Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
67.9.98.15 q=custom+buttons Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
69.225.158.74 q=test Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; TeomaBar 2.01; IBP; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
80.145.103.196 q=cool Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.1 ) Gecko/20040707 MultiZilla/1.6.3.1b
194.201.42.199 q=cycle+africa Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5. 0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
210.214.82.32 q=mesotheloma Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; digit_may2002)
24.219.177.96 q=test Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
67.86.222.191 q=apples Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
207.107.231.2 q=google Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
193.113.57.167 q=loans Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
83.31.85.161 q=sex Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
83.31.85.161 q=ringtones Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
150.140.129.22 q=soap Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
206.81.49.194 q=thingamajig Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;.NET CLR 1.1.4322)
213.240.31.254 q=test Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; MyIE2)
213.240.31.254 q=seo Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; MyIE2)
10.1.1.1 q=alek Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3


EDIT ADD: I expanded the output a bit to show the IP address and browser type - the search phrase is right after the "q=" ... more of you guys should take a look at Firefox - it ROCKS!

 

I may have done the "test"

J/K

 

Alek, does the img string give you the query result? How does that display with a log analyzer?

 

It would give you the page url that accesed the image.

Q. Is this just inserting an image via the adsense search control panel?

 

I just updated my test page with some information/examples that should answer all of the above questions.