Is that normal? I use asrep to track the clicks from IP address and I don't see a difference from before at all. I copied Steve Pavlina（just google for him, he has the highest Alexa ranking I know for a blogger, and he claims to make $1000 a day)'s layout/color theme almost exactly on my own blog, but only get 1% CTR. Any suggestions? My site (world of warcraft related blogging site with big name players) is three weeks old and already broke $1000. Last two days hit me so hard with the CPC decline I don't know what to do. I use the 336 ad format (supposedly most profitable one) as well.
What exactly is smart pricing anyway? does this mean Google keeps a bigger profit themselves and pay less to the publishers? how does this affect the advertisers?
3 weeks and already broke $1k is a good result. Google will smart price you if the source of your traffic is poor in quality.
Yeah you have been smartpriced. In fact I have heard of people increasing their web traffic but there commisions going down at the same time. Imagine that!