Smart pricing is not here to stay, for the delight of google publishers. Smart pricing refers to the minimum earning per click, publishers can recieve. Often varying from 0.1 to 0.5 cents. Smart pricing has currently plagued the arcade and sport niches. However it is not here to stay. Smart pricing is only affecting certain niches at the moment, which have low paying keywords. The reason for this is, those niches allow low bids from adwords users, meaning google has minimal profit and has to pay publishers smart prices. But like the housing market, low paying keywords and high paying keywords constantly fluctuate across different niches. These fluctuations can occur from one month to two years. The recent smart pricing in the arcade niche is coming to an end. And the smart pricing in the sports niche will be here for a little bit longer. The reasons for this is, some sites are succeeding mainly due to adwords. As people know about this, more webmasters begin to build sites in certain niches and use adwords to. The competition increases and users start bidding higher to attain the keyword using google adwords. These higher bids, which is occuring now is due to increased competition, and is why the arcade niche is slowly growing out of smart pricing. The arcade niche has been subject to smart pricing for around 12 months. Currently, it is evident the health niche is still at the top of the highest paying keywords. Closely followed by realty adds, that include a combination of services and location. The varying locations, make it hard for google to line up adwords campaigns with relevant content from publishers sites, meaning realty adds will always figure highly up the list of high paying keywords. The sports niche seems to be a couple of months into the cycle of smart pricing, and will most likely be there for a considerable time more, like the arcade niche previously was. In conclusion, it is evident that smart pricing is a cycle. Relying on increased competition to enter certain adwords campaigns, to bring niches out of the struggling earnings which is hurting publishers in the relevant niches. The sports niche is showing resemblances of what the arcade niche showed, when it was entering the smart pricing cycle. Expect the arcade niche to have a boom in click earnings, aswell as a decrease in the earnings per click in the medical niche and sports niche. The size of google adsense and adwords means, these cycles are becoming the norm throughout the service. Publishers and advertisers have to deal with this as best as they can, just like a rise in interest rates hurts their residential ambitions. www.howimake1000adaywithadsense.blogspot.com
NW mate. I think its a big thing to all publishers. But its like the housing market, there will be boom and bust periods, this will happen with every niche. Hope this clears things up cheers.
Isn't "smartpricing" account based? If so, it doesn't matter what your "niche" is. If you have one poor-performing site, then all your other sites with that publisher id on it are going to get whacked, regardless of their "niche"
No Smart Pricing has nothing to do with account based. Nothing whatsoever. If that was true it would be a total violation of the global discriminatory act.
Some would beg to differ: http://jensense.com/archives/2005/10/one_poorly_conv.html Can you provide a citation for that Act, I'm not familiar with it?
By smart price i mean low earnings per click like 0.01 to 0.05 cents. It has nothing to do with an account. That it the biggest load of hogwash i have ever seen. I just don't understand how blogs like this have so many subscribers, and i give you gold and the truth and three people have subscribed.
Its the way adsense works its simple. People bid for adwords, but google has a restricted price, (higher the price if there is less chance a publisher will have content to match the add), then publishers are paid a similar amount of what the adwords user pays, minus googles portion.
Okay, have fun then. Smart pricing is what happens to an account when one set of pages on it performs poorly, it's not something that happens to an entire content-area.
This is very interesting. So now I am wondering just what smart pricing is. It seems there is a difference of opinion here.
Im going to stand by my comments. And my post on my blog, that smart pricing affects different niches, its temporary just like a boom period or bust period in the housing market. It has nothing to do with individual accounts because thats against the discrimination law, and googles morals and ethics are as high as any other businesses out there. Its how much people bid on adwords which has to do with the cut off price google allow (minimum bid for a keyword- which is set in relation to how much content will suit the adds from publishers sites).
Smart-Pricing is a feature that Google puts into place. Do you agree? If not, check directly with the source or I'll post the necessary links which show that this is something that Google actively does, not something that happens to Google. If that is the case, and Google is making minimal profit. REDUCING the cost per click that the advertiser pays sure seems the right way for Google to increase its profit. Quoting from one of Google's own pages: Pay close attention to the Red text above. This to me indicates something that is SITE based, not NICHE based. Rewarding publishers for creating high quality sites in effect "unrewards" those who do not. Discrimination?
The sheer magnitude of those claims discredit your opinion. Are you saying google goes through every site with adsense on it and decides how much the adds should be worth. Thats blasphemy. Im staying by my original opinion, although it may not be an act, im sure google is doing it the way i have pointed out.
LOL, wow! Goes through every site? Have you heard of algorithms? Have you heard of adwords advertisers being able to track conversions from various sites and report those to Google? Apparently not. Sheer magnitude of claims? What "magnitude"? What I've quoted is directly from Google themselves, but believe what you will. You've shown no evidence and no rebuttal to what I've quoted and highlighted other than to say that it isn't being done.
Yes i know what you mean. Your going to try and get a confrontation out of me. but im sticking by my guns, and that is smart pricing is temporary for a niche and it does not include individual sites.
Okay so explain to me why the cricket world cup site of 2007 was recieving 5 cent clicks?? A site that had over 20 million uniques a day during the tournament?? And a high class site if ever i had seen one? These types of things put doubt in my mind , of your theory.
why is east side boxing being smart priced? When that site has 30 000 links. 100 thousand unique visitors. And my site has 400 links and about 100 uniques a day, in the same niche, and my site is not being smart priced. Adpubster i know where your coming from. But these examples have played a part in my theory.