I as you old timers know have been with ya all this year and have learned a lot from suggestions, flames, poundings and great comments from everyone, yes even you fryman. Now that Ive optimzed till my fingers are boney, im getting the clicks Ive dreamed of, over 50 a day (true number not revealed to not go against TOS), and now my values per click have plummeted. First question: 1. Now that I am getting more traffic, my site 'search words' etc have been SR and PR ranked in some good search engines, my clicks per day have risen greatly as my traffic, but now as this happens, my adsense ad click values have dropped a LOT, seems ad click value drops as my traffic and clicks rise, is this what happens ? It sucks 2. What is the best way to get high paying ads for the search words I currently have ? Would you reccomend strict adsense filtering for low paying ads ? Seems they all have dropped tremoundously I have now, mostly medical, disease related, and a lot of software, web design site content, the ads are highly revelant to each site, but there click value averages under 15 cents each. I just don't understand this, Ive worked and worked and yet the more traffic and clicks I get, the more my earnings drop because the ads are worth less and less as the traffic increases.
Where's the traffic coming from? Traffic from different places is worth different ammounts, because the people got to you from different relevances thus the ads served vary from how the visitor got to you. For instance, if your site is about seiko watches, and someone came to your site from Google using the words 'seiko watches', your adverts are going to be nearly all seiko watches and worth more then if they came from Jims site about teddy bears, from his random link directory. Or maybe I'm talking bollocks, but different ads are served depending on where the traffic is coming from - if the traffic source that's increasing isn't worth what your original traffic source is, then your clicks will be worth less on the whole as you're still only getting the same ammount of traffic from your high click source. There's my half-arsed theory based on what Google don't tell us, anyway. I suppose you just might not be converting well for the advertisers, which can only be determined after a fair chunk of clicks have been sent to them and a few advertisers with pages not designed to convert well decide the click costs on your site should be lowered on this fact. Lower click prices for us, instead of the advertiser being forced to design a better converting site. Oh well...... c'est la vie Pete
My site(s) are 94% software, databases I make and sell, and the other 5% is a small medical help site about common diseases. My traffic is average 75% from software searches on MSN,followed by 20% from Yahoo, then ask jeeves and Google traffic The other 5% is mostly medical related terms finding my site(s) on MSN, yahoo, msn sympatico, ask jeevees, and google last Other 1 % is different site(s)