im running "travel vacation" adsense ads on my website and i have been averaging 10-30 cents a click over the past year. when i look at how much advertisers are payiing per click for that keyword (travel vacation) it costs them $6.00 per click (according to adwords) so out of the $6.00 CPC, i make 30 cents and google makes $5.70? no wonder google is billionaires, i feel used and abused!
Oldgym, are you sure Google are $6 for content clicks? Content clicks tend to have a much lower price than search clicks.
What ever the click is we are paying for US$6 for the term travel vacation. Many travel related terms are extremely expensive in Adwords but, the payout from Adsense is US$0.05, US$0.10 per click. I agree google is raping everyone. Forget about any decent income uless you have a million pageview per month.
if you are not satisfied with adsense or other program, make your own system to track clicks, and talk directly with the advertisers, convince him to advertise on your website, without involving in adwords, will be cheap for him, and more earnings for you.
Agree!! Also you should know that Google gives you free Email Service and also free Search, other Free services...
Its also against the TOS to try and contact advertisers and cut Google out of the middle man position..
Yes, but $6 may be what is being paid for the top placement on the subject. You may only be seeing the 5th or 6th placed advertiser and the price paid for that position could be as little as 50 cents.
I thought Adwords ads only show up on google search sponsored results? Do they also show up in adsense? And maybe the ads thats clicked, due to some reasons not making you much profit?
Welcome to the world of real business. In your example, Google is making $5.70 per click, but that's gross, not net. Google has sales reps to pay, bandwidth to pay for, engineers who write the adsense code to pay, and their own marketing costs. You can realistically expect that in that example, they might get to keep $1. Now, if you don't like it, then don't run Adsense on your site. Find some other way to earn revenue. Personally, when I have no paid advertisers to run on my site, having Adsense there to fill unsold inventory is better than nothing at all. Quit bitching and focus on ways to keep more of the money advertisers are paying to be on your site in your own pocket. Oh, and BTW, unless you are generating 1M pageviews per month, you're going to have a hard time getting anyone to take you seriously.
First, you have no idea of how much the advertiser paid. The $6 you see is for the #1 position on Google Search - which isn't the content network (adsense publishers). Content prices are usually much lower, it could be 50 or 25 cents. The #3, 4 or 5 position could even be much less. Then there is smart pricing - where the advertiser is going to be charged less (and the publisher paid less). Google is a public company. They have to disclose financials every quarter. Google pays publishers an average of 76% of every dollar they take in. They don't break out the numbers between premium, regular and network publishers - so its possible they are paying a little more to one and less to another, but figure 70 - 75% payout and you're going to be real close. So google gets 24% gross of billions, and then they pay their overhead out of that 24% they keep - it still leaves them with billions in profits. Your suggestion that google only pays out 5% is absurd.
sex with girls is always better than a search engine... those figures can really get confusing sometimes not to mention those green bars...
Take your problems directly to Google and see what they have to say. Likely, they'll just tell you to move on. Seriously, you're getting your portion of their proceeds whatever that is.
This would seem to be a first observation. Do you have more details or research on this suspicion? Google will surely make a profit, no problem with that. How much profit is still up to them. Though I believe your figures, if accurate, it might have to do with your specific score / formula as to why your pay out is so low. Google might not value clicks from your site/network to high for a reason? You might want to contact them to see what their feedback is. Otherwise, keep your petroleum jelly close by.