I think that your experience is the exception, not the rule. Most people I've communicated with over the past month or so have reported a significant decline in the value of their AS clicks. As always, IMO. AmCy
AS is based on bidding for keywords and keyphrases. An AW publisher can set his/her max cost per click to $100,000, but if no one else is bidding his/her keywords/keyphrase then he'll only end up paying pennies for each click. AmCy
Mesothelioma is not a myth. I had one click worth $6.51 here. When I checked the channels, I came to know about that. I still believe that Mesothelioma sometimes pay me $$2-3 per click. I wish I could R&D more on it, and let you people know which were those ads . I know I would get 10s of IMs for that. But it would be unfair to the advertiser, so I simply leave it upto the user or reader of my blog to click those ads and pay me $2 to $6 sometimes.
I have never received a click worth more than a few cents on mesothelioma ads. I guess you have been lucky
you shouldn't even have those ads.... you must have broken googles TOS just to have a page with those ads? and did you notice that your avatar has been taken over by a blue headed alien?
Probably Soli Mort, is one of the lucky guys to have good revenue from Meso ads. Anyways, if the page is only google ads with no contents about mesothelioma.. probably few cents is a good deal. Even I dont have any good content, but I do have some good content I shall say!! But I want to make it more reach sooner.
why do you say that SM? He could be running a mesothelioma site, in which case he would be totally within the TOS. i agree about the avatar
Not lucky. Maverick's content is will pull more ads related specifically to Mesothelioma lawyers and law firms, which pay vey well. If your content is just about mesothelioma, you won't get as many of those lawyer/law firm sponsors AS ads. As always, IMO. AmCy
Blue headed alien, lol I don't understand why do you say that I shouldn't have those ads. I built a mesothelioma site a while ago to test the famous "$50-per-click" myth. Just did a quick check, and of the ads I am showing on my homepage 2 are legal related, and the rest are medical related. Either way they should pay more than a few cents. But, this is really a site I couldn't care less about. I have other medical related sites that are serious and really pay nicely for clicks. Health related sites are big earners.
I thought in Googles TOS it states that you should not build sites/pages SPECIFICALLY to have their ads, maybe i am wrong.... will go lookie....
My site looks like an average information site, I don't build crappy sites full of spam and slap banners on it No way on earth could you figure out that this site was built as a test for those ads.
Exactly AmCy, I did some R&D and this is logical that the advertiser who will earn more from pulling visitors will give more too. The ads with mesothelioma information will be put by webmasters who wanted to publish more meso ads and earn thru the AS ads. But logically, I observed that, if I am writing about lawfirms, users clicking those ads would surely give me more revenue, because these lawyers earn millions thru even one visitor out of 1000. Isn't it logical . Ofcourse its not sure in every case and click. But couple of clicks per day, make enough sometimes.
yes i can... it says so HERE http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=144193&postcount=31 LOL....I'm not on your case though, i have better things to do now where's my camera?...i am sure i just saw an alien spaceship looking for a lost crewmember.......
lol No, what I meant is that if you were surfing the net and arrived to my site, you wouldn't imagine it was built for testing the ads. You would just see it as a normal, average site.
Doesn't work that way. AS makes it's judgements based on a site's overall content: title tag, h1 tags, copy, etc. So even though you may see some legal related meso ads, the ads will be worth less--from a CPC POV-- than e.g. Maverick's site because of the overall content. AS is very specific. AmCy
Guess so... I just wanted to focus on the medical aspect of mesothelioma and not so much on the legal aspect. But, as I said, it was just a quick test. I am much happier with how my other medical sites are doing
Did you remove your websites from your sig fryman? I would have liked to see your websites. Put it up, when you have free time.
That's cool. As long as the site is making enough to cover hosting and reg fees with a little profit, why not. I also have meso related site that I play with once in a while. In my experience, G has implemented measures to make the AS algo even more discriminating than say 2 years ago; with all the webmasters these days trying to capitalize on strong keywords/keyphrases, it was inevitable that they would take action. I think--IMO--that only large, law related meso sites with extraordinarily optimized content are getting those mythic $40 ads today. As always, IMO, especially because I don't work for G. I have no inside info. AmCy