What is up with Adsense? I have a web site that is based upon a high paying keyword, but I am getting 5 cents a click. Another site is getting 1 cent. Why is Adsense paying such a paltry sum?
You need to give a little more information if you want help ... such as ummm a link to your site maybe
for me, the rate per click has also dropped quite a lot... that's why i'm using chitika to supplement adsense. however, i would have to say that the ctr is quite a lot higher for adsense as compared to chitika...
Google AdSense seems to have gotten smart to the "high paying keyword" game. I don't pay much attention to keyword cost, and I'm averaging 21 cents a click.
Well, I didn't pay attention to keyword cost on some sites either. The one that is getting 1 cent a click was designed without considering cost per click. The 5 cent site was, however, designed with high paying keywords in mind.
I think smartpricing is basically translating into google keeping the high paying ads for themselves and screwing us over
Google claims that "smart pricing" never makes them money, because they pass the lowered costs right back to the advertisers. This makes me think that tey have some other system, with some other name, which they don't talk about, which is designed to screw publishers chasing high paying keywords.
Ok, but what about the sites that I have created that aren't focused on high paying keywords. Why are they getting such a tiny amount of money per click? It seems since the Adwords change that the Adsense revenue went way down.
It's possible that advertisers are bidding less for those keywords. It's also possible that you have been hit with a Smart Pricing penalty. CPC on my GSM site plummeted this year; CPC on my Java site soared. Only Google knows for sure, and they ain't talkin'.
Here are at least a few things to look for: 1) Are your visitors from the U.S.? If no, then you're not going to get high paying clicks. Most of the bids are geography-specific to here. 2) Is your traffic coming from people who are likely to "convert"? Your account would get smart-priced if it gets too many people who don't end up actually buying the stuff. If they are getting to your sites from some other way besides natural traffic, this could be it. Because it's supposed to be account-wide, that means it may actually be your other, low-paying keyword site that caused this. 3) Is it actually a high-paying keyword? Have you done a test adwords campaign to see? 4) Are your ads really being based on that keyword and not some other random one? Go do a google search for the term you're targeting. Look at the ads in the search results. If you aren't getting at least some of these, then the problem is you aren't getting the high bidding ads. One solution might be to rewrite the page some - I've had google pick up on random text sometimes and give me irrelevent ads or stuff from a slightly different keyword.
It's down here too. I guess base.google.com has kicked in. Advertizers trying this before they go back to adwords again. Base has international media coverage with many local newspapers worldwide afraid of losing their customers. It's an all out attack against the print media, - that's what they feel.
I have firmly x cent per click. But sometime (one time per 2-3 months) id drops down to x/4 cent per click. It returns to normal after few day fortunatelly I thinks it is caused by advertisers (or advertisers missing). In those low-paying days I have only one or two ads in context of my site. Other are not. The CTR is falling too.
If you are only getting 5 cents per click it is OBVIOUSLY not a high-paying keyword. A high paying keyword would be one that paid a high amount per click, not a little amount.
I have noticed my ads are very irrelevant to my sites lately, I don't know why. That may explain why my click thru rate is much worse than Nov.
I noticed that my payout rate has dropped a lot (70%-90%) from Novemeber to December. So google just started the smart pricing just this month? It's odd. Those kind of payout rate really discourage me from updating my website because google adsense is the only source of my website income.