I averaged $.07 per click for the first few months until I was approaching the $1,000 per month mark. Then one day my earnings dropped almost in half. I now average $.03 per click. This was not gradual. It was in a day. I guess I have been smart priced. Does anyone ever get out of this? Is there a trick to it?
I assume this has continued and has become the new "norm". Well, yes, smartpricing can be reversed ad is being so by quite many people. There is some good advice from people that were being smart priced and the actions they took to reverse it. Although, it could partly be a coincidental, but they suggest it was their actions that prompted un-smartpricing, as you call it.
There is no quick and easy way to get "un-smartpriced". What you need to do is make sure you have targetted visitors to your website who are in "buy" mode. A site that has digital camera reviews is going to get better conversions on digital camera ads than a site that has digital camera jokes.
One easy way to get smartpriced is to have so good ad blending that people click ads by mistake all the time, and no clicks convert because of it.
I always thought it was called PPC Pay Per Click because I would be payed per click. Not our fault that the advertiser is not doing their job of converted, it is hard enough for me to get a visitor to go to their site. LOL That is out of the hands of a website owner and we should not be punished for a poor ecommerce design or uncreditable commerce site.
You brought up a quite old thread I agree with you, we are getting paid based on PPC program standards, I DO NOT believe we are responsible for getting conversions for the advertisers thats their job. I'm quite frustrated with google and why they would impliment such a thing, as they are a Pay Per Click network, not Pay Per Action.
wow no one answered this post in a while. in answer to your question, i was smartpriced about two weeks ago, now im not. actions i took to change: my site before had awful ad placement, so lots of impressions, but no clicks. all i did was change ad placement tbh. then CTR increased from under 1% to around 2%. and smartpricing just disappeared thats all i know
No. The publisher does not get punished for a poorly converting site. If an average visitor to an advertisers site converts at 5% and visitors from your site also convert at 5%, then there will be no smart pricing going on. However, if the average visitor to the advertisers site convert at 5% and visitors that come from your site convert at 1%, then you will be smart priced.
Try transferring your domain to someone with a different last name than you and a different address. (an address in a different country on the domain is a big plus as long as it is not one of the countries G has trouble with click fraud from). Take down the site for a week when the transfer takes place then put it back up with some minor asthetic changes at a different hosting company and you will be golden. Good Luck JJ
How can one tell (aside from a huge drop in revenue) that they have been smart priced? Also - when this happens does it affect every site running adsense or just the poorly converting one?