Since the last few days a click on my blog is $0.01 Be it an image ad or a text ad. Is it the same for you guys?! Do u know why this is so?! Is it because of my ad positioning or that image ad pays less than text ad? You can see my blog here: www.blogosquare.com
From what I experienced image ads are lower paying as text ads. And we all get also such small clicks in a larger or smaller number. It depends also on the niche as you know. Try to form yourself an opinion only after you test it and get about 20-40 clicks and you can sum up a click value. Good luck!
Check this post: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2005/10/facts-about-smart-pricing.html Maybe you are on "smart pricing" ?
Thnx for the advice guys. I'm experiencing this for the last past week. I'm averaging about 20 clicks per days and all I'm getting is only $0.20 to $0.30. This is frustrating. Thank god there are other means of monetisation besides adsense. I'm gonna check out this smart pricing.
Google adwords keword prices are also increased. I had to raise my keywords value to $0.10 to be activated. Google is eating the cents ! Regards. Rz
That does seem very low. Having briefly been to see the blog, it seems there are adsthere that should be worth more than a cent.
It could be one of three things. 1) You are being smart priced. 2)Your content is attracting low paying keywords and ads 3) The ads are probably from MFA sites and they are using the arbitrage method. This means they bid something like 5 - 10 cents for a keyword.
Maybe it's the keywords? I had a blog that was slanted toward wrestling, etc and often would get 15-20 clicks in a day and less than 20 cents!
I had 15 clicks, 50 cents yesterday. It's seriously pissing me off to no end. I'm tired of having to log in and browse my own site to see which idiot with a dead URL or a brand new link directory has their Adwords ad on my site. I wish I knew something else that can be done to make money on a video site....