My friend just got a site rolling with adsense and he said his clicks have dramatically dropped from $1.00 to pretty much nothing..new site and he was shooting yahoo ads to it ..which I thought was pretty stupid....so then I figured he would definitely get smartpriced......But my question is...will his account be smartpriced or just the site that has the ads? Also how long would it take to stop the smartpricing Thanks
I personally want to believe that smart pricing only affects the ad unit itself, most likely and hopefully it is just the website. I doubt they would smart price across all your websites, but it is possible.
I think I was smart priced until today for ONE website. This website was receiving about 40 clicks a day and 3-4 dollar average. Today till this point I have 40 clicks and 11 dollars. My other websites didn't seem to be smart priced so I guess my point is that I believe it's set per website not account.
smart price affects your adsense account. Not one web site not one ad unit the whole account. Many people that think they are smart priced really aren't. Income goes up and down depending on advertisers and niche. If you find yourself smart priced remove the ads on the site you belive you were smart priced for. Every week Google reevaluates your account. The reason you are smart priced in the first place is normally because your clicked ads are not brining the correct action like leads or sells. Most of the time this is caused by poor content and non targetted traffic.
smartpricing its just a perfect way to protect advertiser. i wonder, what if advertiser lying to google,telling the the click they got its is not worthy. can advertizer do that?