My average earnings per click dropped from about $0.80 to $0.03 within a few days on my site. Im asuming this is due to smart pricing as my visitors are not converting for the advertisers? Is there any way to avoid smart pricing by adding new content and having new adverts show up or does google now have my site listed as one who does not have a good conversion rate and so all traffic that clicks on adsense ads on my site is considered bad for converting and so I get poor adsense income from anyone who clicks on my ads on my site no matter if they are old adverts which have been shown before or new ones that appear on new pages with fresh new content.
Its not necessarily smart pricng. If this trend continues for longer then it is possible taht you have been smart priced.
well according to a post from other forum, a lady claiming that removing channel from your adsense code may help to avoid smart pricing. But that is just a theory and no one still supported her theory.
In my opinion you should remove Adsense from site that do not converts well. It is because Smart Pricing affects entire account not selected channel, so it is better to have few pages deleted then whole account Smart Priced. But the question is: how to tell which ads do not convert?
I don't think it's possible to avoid smartpricing. Or at least, I've never heard of one that makes sense. (And yes, I am referring to the thread where some guy blamed it on channels.)
There is some controversy in this issue. Some people seem to think that once you get smartpriced then your entire account is affected. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=81560 Google talks about smartpricing and refers to "website" and "webpage". http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/text/18989.html#19013 Adding content to your website will not hurt at all, go through your pages and try to figure out which ads will turn into sales (Don't click on your own ads!) Jot down the websites that are showing ads that you suspect will not convert well, ad these advertisers to your blocked list. Google is all about relevancy, if your pages are pulling relevant ads, then they will be more likely to convert into sales and your earnings will increase.
I have to agree with Jack actually, several of my sites have been affected by an assumed smartpricing of one of them. I do not believe that all of my sites got smartpriced at the same time... Also, after the assumed smartpricing period ended, all of my sites performed better yet only one of them had been modified... where I come from thats called proof, allbeit circumstantial
controversy One entry found for controversy. Main Entry: con·tro·ver·sy Pronunciation: 'kän-tr&-"v&r-sE, Brit also k&n-'trä-v&r-sE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -sies Etymology: Middle English controversie, from Anglo-French, from Latin controversia, from controversus disputable, literally, turned against, from contro- (akin to contra-) + versus, past participle of vertere to turn -- more at WORTH 1 : a discussion marked especially by the expression of opposing views : DISPUTE 2 : QUARREL, STRIFE http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/controversy If there was "No controversy" that whole entire thread would have not existed. You might be right Jack, and according to livingingermany, you are... But the controversy is there or else we wouldn't be talking about it.
I do know that once I removed adsense from some of my sites that had lousy ctr and lousy ads showing, all the rest of my sites seemed to have got better paying ads. So I look at ctr, unique visitors, etc of each site. Then the earnings in adsense for each site. Have a site making very little each day, I look at it carefully and decide whether to keep adsense or drop it in favor of something else. I talked to someone who in a strange fit of building a network of adsense sites per the so-called gurus, bought over 400 adsense sites (those sites sold or given away for pennies now) and got 400 domains (he spent a chunk on this part). Then over a period of a few months, he customized each site. His adsense income kept on rising day by day, but about 2 months ago, dropped like a rock. Everything was the same, visitors and ctr. Just that his ads had dropped to paying about 1-2 cents per click. So now he is going through each one of his sites to eliminate those that are not making adsense cash anymore.
I totally agree, I think Google is all about relevancy, if you take enough time to analize the ads showing in your pages and see wether these ads are paying enough, then google will reward you. I wrote a post in my forum about this whole theory of relevancy, here is the original post: http://www.turnideasintocash.com/Forum/forums/thread/37.aspx
Illogical people wanting to argue when the facts have already been established by Google itself does not a controversy make. And you can copy/paste as many definitions of the word you want. The original intent of the word "controversy" as used in this thread was to indicate that there is actual doubt in regards to the answer. There isn't. Case closed.
I want to share my experience.. It also happens to me, sometimes I get 2 clicks, but just got $0.01 from them. I thought I have been smart priced. But then on the next day, I got $1.26 for one click! So I think, don't worry about smart pricing.. just keep adding your contents. From what I read, Google apply smart pricing in a regular basis ( they always examine it in the end of a week )