Just found out a trick to increase CPM for AdSense

If you replace your pub-id with some other pub-id, it will change nothing. Because Google still will be paying for the ads. But when you leave blank, all the money goes down to right their pockets so the system shows high paying ads

Yea, I posted this on WF also. If you think it's against the TOS, you don't have to apply it. I myself believe it has nothing wrong against the TOS.

 

Interesting. Hopefully it's not illegal.

 

It is certainly not illegal but Google won't like it and according to TOS if Google doesn't like something it is against TOS.

By the way, forgetting or accidently deletting pub_id couldn't be illegal.

 

Actually, this action COULD, as editing the code is against the TOS.
But, these kind of edits are done on many occasions, such as changing the pub-id here on DP due to revenue sharing, and the most common application is changing pub-id when a site changes hands, you just do a search/replace on the pub-id over the site's code...

 

I doubt that Google will like it, its purely modifying code.... and not the code in its pure form that Google gave you. offcourse you can change the colors n all but not the other part of code, its purely against the TOS, and you know what's going to happen after that?

 

Has anybody gotten banned?

 

I know all these better than you. Why do people keep talking about the TOS? The trick is there, some say it's against the TOS, some say it's not. If you're at the ignorant side, then do not use it. That's as simple as this. Talking about the TOS is nonsense, it's already discussed many times in this thread.

 

This is a good thread and I'd love to have mulitple adsense accounts to test this for fear of being banned. I guess I'm not as much of a risk taker as I perceive myself to be as I only have one Adsense account. Bit off topic here but with multiple adsense accounts do you receive payment seperately via cheques to the same name and same mailing address or same account name to same account number on EFT? Just curious.

Your OP makes perfect sense to me..why stop with Google? I'll try this with other smaller PPC programs.

 

Different addresses, same names for cheque. Different addresses, different bank accounts for EFT.

 

different comp/IP too?

 

No, the same.

 

I agree. If it's against the terms of service, give us a quote from the TOS that say's that it's illegal. Plenty of sites, DP included, change pub-id's on adsense ads. Removing it is an excellent way to test without creating misleading impressions in your reports and also prevents accidental clicks that can get you banned. If after a few days, it resets the smart pricing (which has not been proven yet and proving that should be the focus of this thread) then G needs to work on the algo so that it recognizes this situation. Restrictions on changing the pub-id is a slippery slope for Google indeed.

JJ

 

Hmm. Have tried two times on a site now. Does not work for me. Maybe my high class sites are not smart priced at all

JJ_McClure, your avatar makes me dizzy, well done.

 

I've give you 2-1 odds that 99% of the people who posted and said they would 'definitely not try this method' rushed to try it as soon as they finished posting.

 

Leet
Do the ads change or they remain the same?
What I mean is that if the ads are the same but the price is different or they get replaced with high pay ads.

 

They get replaced with high paying ads.

 

I tried this on two different domains and it didnt' work.

When the pub-id is removed the ads change.

They were left that way for 3 days.

Then, the pub-id was inserted again.

The ads immediately changed to the cheap ones again!

I tried this back and forth during the day and the ads change depending on whether a pub-id exists or not.

Maybe you need to remove all ads on the site, or maybe you need to wait for the Adsense bot to revisit, I don't know.

It just seems like more trouble than it's worth.

That's okay, because there are plenty of other tricks out there to get a good eCPM.

 

That's all about the bot's revisit. You were probably unlucky about timing.

 

I knew they would change things so the trick wouldn't work anymore. Either they already have changed or they will.

I wouldn't have revealed it if I was leet.

 

This is against Google TOS. You'll be banned for sure.