Dear members., I am a noob to adsense. I use adsense for the past one month. i got approximately 40k page impressions per day. In earlier days i got 300+$ per day. No its reduced to 20$ per day(past one week). the important thing is CTR is same. What is the problem???. why my amount goes down. why google down amount on my site??? Approx. Same Pageviews-Same CTR but amount reduced down 10 times.??? shall i email google about this? Actually what is google "SMART PRICING" mean??? Is there any chance to increase my amount. I saw adsense genious here... pls help me people... pls ------------------------------- sorry for my bad english
You'll find changes that dramatic, which are associated with smart pricing are reviewed weekly. I had a simillar thing happen. Just be patient, you'll find (assuming it is smart pricing and not anti-fraud measures) it'll come back to approx the original mark.. I know it's painful, but all you can really do is wait. If after 7 to 10 days you still see the same ratios, I'd contact G directly and ask for review. Apparently... The thing to be careful of with smart pricing is when you have a higher number of underperforming sites using the same AS acct. Their bad performance can have a negative effect on the good performers. I can't confirm this from personal experience but i do know this is common perception. Hope that helps.. (others here might offer better insight).. Cheers, JL
Thanks for your immediate reply....I use my account in a single site.. Through channels i noticed one thing... 60% of my pages never give me a single $...only 20%-30% pages perform well... Is this the reason for that lower amount???
I had a leaderboard or banner ad on many of my pages and the CTR was next to 0, so I changed them to 250x250 squares just above my content, and I can tell you that I'm smiling a lot bigger now. I just took the ads right off the pages that already had squares and were still not performing. The ads were targetted, but the traffic just wasn't interested. I haven't been paying any attention to the 'smart pricing' thing, but I have noticed that I get more per click since I've made these changes.
The same thing has happened to me, it seems to happen once every few months. I've gone from about 50c/click average to around 20c. I've switched most of my ads over to Chitika until it goes back up again.
I find as the month goes on CPM goes down as the higher bid advertisers run through their budget and you end up with cheaper clicks. Your situation seems pretty extreme and it probably is a result of this, but more so, smart pricing.
I agree with Roman. I've noticed that as the month goes on, the ads that I WANT to be showing stop appearing and all I get is a million RSS and blog related ads.
This does seem excessive. I dont know your figures but lets assume from the 40,000 pimps u said per day that you have a CTR of around 3% Thats 1200 adsense clicks a day producing $300 or $0.24 per click. You say your CTR is the same so now you have 1200 clicks producing £20 or $0.0167 per click. Something doesnt stack up here!! I think its unlikely that smart pricing alone would reduce an average click from 25 cent to less than 2 cents. To give a better idea we would need to see your site and also know which country your visitors come from. With that info' it MIGHT be possible to give more constructive suggestions.