Hello DP brothers, I just had a smart pricing situtation, please share your opinion. Here is what happened: 1. I've recently moved to another country, and Adsense staffed helped to move old earnings to new account. 2. My new account got smart priced yesterday (account was 25 days old). 3. Normally smart pricing happens within 14 days after you start. (this is from my own experience and some of my other buddies, if you had a different situtation please tell us) 4. This time it was different, it did not smart price until the 25th day. 5. the 25th day is the 7th day after I switch from 1 ad per page to 2 ads per page. 6. the result of #5 is that: Ad unit impressions increased by 200%, ad unit CTR dropped 25%, ad unit eCPM dropped 25%, but overall CTR per page increased by 30%, and since i was getting more clicks, earnings increased by 30%. 7. 7 days after the #5 changes was made, ad unit eCPM dropped over 50%, now earning is the same as the beginning with almost double amount of clicks (site traffic increased during this period). 8. The account is only used on 1 website, I've ignored stats spikes caused by unusually cheap ads, clicks per day are in the 4 digits, page impressions per day are 5 digits. DP brothers, is this normal to be smarted priced this late? or did putting an extra ad unit into the page dropped the per ad CTR and caused the smart pricing? what are some other possibilities? Can this be reversed after another week if some sort of action is taken?
smart pricing, in my experience, kicks in once a threshold of impressions is made. it isn't about how long your account was open.