I have been using adsense on my proxy index pages for ages and ages and quite a while ago I got smartpriced. Today I was looking at my stats and for two clicks I got paid 1 cent in one of my channels. Well, I think this is enough for me to just take adsense off and put something else there, anything that doesn't depress me as much as looking at that 1/2 cent click. So I was thinking that I would take adsense off my proxies and maybe make a blog that got next to no traffic but at least had a decent CPC as long as I picked a high paying niche. If I did that--take adsense off my proxies and just leave it on some high paying niche blogs then would google un-smartprice me?
They should. It all depends on your ctr. Cant remember what the percent was but I think you should try and stay above 2%. also you need to make sure you are using the competitive ad filter to weed out those low paying MFA sites like smarter.com
Take Adsense out from all your websites where CTR lower than 2 or 3% for a week or two. Take steps to increase CTR at the expense of pageviews by blocking non-converting and non-english traffic [China, Iran, Russia and such].
the easiest way to get un-smartpriced is to remove all you ads for 20 days and reapply the code after that.
I just looked at my CTR and all of my proxies are way below 2% CTR except for one. I guess I should remove adsense for 20 days from all of those proxies and put something else up there...and then work on blocking/rerouting non-converting traffic. I know how to use geoip to show adsense only on US/GB/CA traffic but....how do I block other types of "non converting traffic"? Do I start to play around with filters to keep away certain niche advertisers?
Take out Adsense from every proxy whether high CTR or not, just to be on the safe side. Put Adbrite or something else there for that time being. You could use adsblacklist.com to weed out some MFA advertisers and such if you want. But for now, just see if things improve after removing Adsense for a while.
I think I've been smartpriced today, my average revenue per click dropped by about 30%. I was thinking of closing my Google account, and opening a new, fresh one. Is this unessary, since all I have to do is remove the adsense for 20 days to reset it back to 'normal' mode?
The article is great. But it not a good stuff for those (wordpress user) who use wp-super-cache or any type of cache plugin that turn dynamic page into static page. The code won't function properly and you will still get "smart priced" if one of the static page with adsense get a huge attention from social media....
Use those sites for link juice to new, highly optimized sites. Put affiliate links on the proxy index pages and adsense on the new sites. TomG.