In January my statistics were really good. However in february something weird has happened. Google seems to pay less than a cent for each click to me. Is anyone else experiencing in the education niche for this month only ?
You could be getting penalized for your website quality. What traffic sources do you have? Is it original content? The odd 1 or 2 cent click is not unusual, 100 clicks averging 1 cent a click is, I'd guess there has to be something wrong.
Also consider some of them may have been illegitimate clicks... could be some users clicked the ad more than once in the case of slow page loading?
the global crisis have come to google! my revenue drop until 20% only compare with december and november! you need to do something else to keep running ur website until the economic is turn good!
Education niche get paid $1 for 100 clicks???? This is very low Remove some of the ads to avoid smart pricing, or you might consider affiliate program
sounds like google have penalised you, or for some reason your attracting very low paying ads.. Focus on editing, adding quality content to your site. Also, think about what you could have done differently this month or the past couple of months.
Clicks with more than 100 and earning is just $1 is very low earning power here. Try to add some words which pays you to more money with click. Also try to give your site in various search engine to earn more traffic with more clicks....
Dont worry, i am with you. 150 clicks today and 1.5 $ which used to be around 10 $ before 6 months. Its very very irritating to see such stats.
Smart Price, of course. And I agree with lifeplayer: Remove some of ads. But, is your website increasing still? I mean, getting new visitors and clicks? Some ads in one of my websites simply disappear when it isn't getting enough amount of visitors/clicks. ¬¬
If Google thinks they are invalid clicks they won't pay you anything for the click, smart pricing is when Google realizes your sites ads are not converting well for their advertisers. The scale goes like this 100 Clicks should give a 2 to 3 percent conversion rate for advertisers, so out of those 100 clicks they should get 2 to 3 sales, thats with good earning adsense sites. So in your case your sites conversion rates are very poor, maybe something like 1000 clicks to get 2 to 3 sales for the advertise. And Google makes it their top priority to take care of their advertises, so they smart priced your website. But it also works in your favor, if Google starts to see your conversion rates are increasing again, the smart price will be lifted and you will start to see the regular clicks once again. Also it works the same way if a site has increased conversion rates, like say 10 out of 100 clicks purchase something from the advertiser then Google will pay you more to keep those ads running on your site. Which equals more per click. So yeah.....smart priced.
I think if you're getting that little $/click, you should really just switch to a different program. There are lots of reviews/opinions on this forum, so it shouldn't be too hard to find a replacement!