I'm getting half the usual google search referrers this month, but cpc is like 50% higher. They both seemed to start happening at the same time.
It is also possible that you have been affected by google recent landing page changes. Many adwords advertisers were forced out of the market in the last two months so others have been able to dramatically reduce their bids.
It's also the end of a month. It's not like the years before. It's going down in general and that since many months. I think that it will improve again soon again, ... Christmas time ...
Hey dude, I think you need to do some SEO on your games site. Firstly, its good that your ads look striking for a dark background. However for every game details page, eg. Sonic game, you should change the page title to Sonic keywords, don really care about meta tags.. Try to put in the <H1> header for SONIC HEDGEHOG GAME for example.. Also pour in more content for each individual page and lastly all the alt image tags and all the title tags of every links will definitely give you a boost in the search engines and ads displayed more specific and priced higher in that sense...
Well Im up to 83 dollars and I wanted to get my first check in september, but now 17 dollars in 5 days seems impossible. My site is ran on a script making every page have a title might be extremely difficult..
Having a great month this month. 526 clicks for just under $200. Still days to go! Keep at it guys. Build your links and write articles for your blogs. It all adds up in the end.
I got 3000 unique visitors a day now, and 30 ad clicks a day, and yet the payments are still only 2-3 dollars per day.
Never but never expect constant (in a matter of getting the same amount each day) income from Adsense. You can't have the same traffic each day, the same people looking for the same thing.
I know for a fact, through extensive testing... that Google does indeed use meta keywords, description and the title of the page to target ads. Also the URL name plays a heavily weighted role.
I got 170 clicks already in september, and yet Ive only been accounted for 8 dollars. Thats really really low considering thats over twice as many clicks I got in my first month already and they gave me 45 dollars for that month.